BU231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Product Liability, Carcinogen, Incrementalism
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Ethics & the workplace: difficulties faced by both employees and employers in avoiding unethical behaviour. Start taking shortcuts and breaking rules to fulfill those promises. Invitee (i. e. customers) and licensee (i. e. technicians) - owed higher standard of care: occupier has to remove any hazards of which she/he is aware and those hazards that he/she ought to have been aware of, trespassers: If it is intentionally made (a lie), then it is fraudulent misrepresentation. Inducing breach of contract: unlawful interference with economic relations, product defamation, passing-off. Inducing breach of contract: where one party induces another party to breach his contract with a 3rd party. Unlawful interference with economic relations: where threats or other unlawful means are used to convince one party to cease doing business with another, poaching customers by bribing. Product defamation: where one party intentionally makes untrue or disregarding remarks about another"s product in advertising their own product.
