Questions tagged [settlement]
Contracts/agreements that remove or end judicial proceedings.
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Redundancy due to Organisational Restructure
Bob has been made redundant today due to "Organisational Restructure" process and let go immediatelly. He has been there for 18 months and the notice period was 1 month. The company offers ...
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What are the similarities and differences between civil settlements and criminal plea deals?
Except for the type of cases in which they are used, settlements and plea deals seem quite similar. In both cases, the two parties reach an agreement, and they avoid the cost and inconvenience of a ...
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Does redundant first party consideration nullify a contract?
Alice is saddled by many tens of thousands of debt to her bank. She is mostly overwhelmed by this and scarcely makes any effort to repay it for a decade, it being hardly within her ability to anyway. ...
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Would Jewish settlements on Palestinian territory be illegal if the settlers were Palestinian and they didn’t encroach on any already settled lands?
I’m trying to understand whether the individual settlers themselves are violating any laws (presumably Palestinian ones), and if so, which ones and how. Is it illegal under Palestinian law to enclose ...
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In what way are Jewish settlements illegal?
I don’t really know what they refer to on the ground, only that they are spoken of very controversially and often called illegal.
But my understanding is basically that Zionist Jews who believe that ...
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What happens to illegally produced copies when the producer settles?
Say I download a copyright-protected album, and, without licence, make it available for download on a peer to peer network, distributing it to 10,000 of my closest friends.
Then I get a letter from a ...
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What is the purpose of a settlement agreement including a clause that it was signed, "voluntarily and without any duress whatsoever?"
If a settlement agreement includes a clause that it was signed, "voluntarily and without any duress whatsoever":
If a person signing the settlement agreement done so voluntarily and without ...
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Received an unexpected check for a "settlement" - should I cash it?
I received a check in the mail for about $1000. It's from "Huntington National Bank", and the issuer is "Saylor v. RealPage Inc. c/o Settlement Administrator". I've never heard ...
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Legality of promising to refrain from tipping another off?
X discovers that he has a valuable cause of action against Z, and decides to use it as leverage against Z, but it isn't quite enough leverage to counter Z in the way X would like. However, he realises ...
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Is it always a good idea to instruct opposing lawyers to speak directly?
It is a common practice that opposing parties communicate via their lawyers rather than the parties communicating directly to each other.
Besides saving the parties' time, what are the benefits and ...
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What's the difference between a full and final settlement and either merely a full or merely a final settlement?
Perhaps the phrase was designed to mitigate caveats of either one or another... What would these have been?
And secondly, realistically, would a court ever uphold the difference between a settlement ...
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Can white collar crime cases be settled out of court?
I'm a victim of wire fraud (email fraud).
A company successfully obtained some confidential information from me using social engineering methods.
The company now aware that I have a strong evidences ...
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Can a court allow a party to breach a settlement where that party agreed to release claims of other parties relating to that subject matter?
Virginia Giuffre has sued Prince Andrew, alleging a variety of offenses against her stemming from Prince Andrew's involvement in Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking operation.
Prince Andrew is ...
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If a dispute arise between two parties, and a third party volunteers to mediate, are any agreements made to the mediator binding on the two parties?
For example Bob hires Fred to do a job. Bob does not believe Fred fulfilled his duty and refuses to pay. If Fred asks a friend of Bob to talk to Bob about it, and Fred agrees (to the mutual friend) to ...
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Arbitration and GDPR
Arbitration allow a both parties to settle the dispute outside the court where the arbitrator would decide the law to b e applied to the dispute?.
However, arbitration will not exempt their ...
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