Legal, Regulations, Compliance, and Investigations Flashcards
Administrative law
Encompasses the laws and legal principles defining the powers, procedures, processes, and acts of administrative agencies.
Civil law
Highly systematized and structured and relies on declarations of broad, general principles, often ignoring the details.
Copyright
Covers the expression of ideas.
Criminal law
Deals with addressing the behaviors or conduct that are seen as harmful to the general public and/or society in general.
Customary law
Consists of the written and unwritten rules that have developed from the customs and traditions of communities.
Freeware
Software that can be used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed without restriction.
Hearsay
Evidence that is based on what the witness was told rather than on his or her personal knowledge and is not normally admissible in court.
Intellectual property
Proprietary business or technical information, processes, designs, practices, etc., that are confidential and critical to the business.
Interrogation
An adversarial technique where the suspect is put under real or perceived stress (often through being accused of complicity in the crime) in order to compel him or her to confess or divulge specific information.
Interviewing
The purpose of this is information gathering with the objective of seeking/ determining the truth.
Libel and defamation
The legal responsibility that one might have for making false statements that harm the reputation of another.
Patents
Protect novel, useful, and non-obvious inventions.
Privacy and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
A group of 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. It has eight core principles pertaining to the protection of privacy and personal information.
Prudent person rule
The general test for appropriate and responsible protection of assets. It considers what actions a careful person would take to protect the assets of the organization from harm or unnecessary risk.
Religious Law
Law is considered to be decreed by a Supreme Being. Lawmakers and law scholars do not create laws; they attempt to discover the truth of law.