Individual And The Law Flashcards
Relationship between rights and responsibilities
Where someone has a responsibility to another person, the other person has a corresponding right to be treated in a particular way
Rights individuals are entitled
Authority to do something
Right to do something
Everyone has them, the rights to be human
Example:
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Son was sick but morally dad is doing the right thing; doctors responsibility is legal
Responsibility of citizens within a society
The obligation to a person, group, a state, society, to do certain things and refrain from doing others
Legal basis of rights
For a right to have a legal basis it must be protected by the law and thus be enforceable
Statue law
Legal responsibilities
(obligations and duties)
Eg parents dutie is to send their kids to school
Common law
Duty of care
Donohgue V Stevenson
Four rights expressed in the constitution
Right to a trial by jury
Freedom of religion
The right not to be discriminated against the basis of bed state of residence
The right to compensation if ones property is compulsorily acquired for
Human rights
Fundamental rights that every person has on the basis of being human without regard to nationality age sex or other characteristics