LAWS 1000 Lecture 6: DETAILED LEC NOTES - CARLETON UNI - JANE DICKSON
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Sources of law , in nancy mccormack and melanie r. bueckert (2013). Case: the case of the difficult mother. Sue lives at home with her elderly mother. Her mother suffers from dementia and a number of age related health problems. One night, sue goes out to a party and gets drunk. She took enough money and paid the taxi and got home. Sue just lost her last bit of cash for the taxi. She knows she is still drunk, but she needs to get her mom to the hospital and feels like she has no choice. She takes her mom to the hospital, parks outside, and hands her mom to the nurses. The nurse notices that sue is very drunk. Often police officers around the parking lot at hospital. The nurse tells one of the officers this woman drove her mom over and she is drunk.