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Can a computer be guilty of insider trading?
The Bot is a means to trade. Just like a telephone to call a broker or a fax to the bank or an app where you click on "buy now".
Means cannot be "guilty" of anything. It's just ...
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Is it legal to bribe a private eye?
england-and-wales
It's illegal to "bribe" anyone - the banker, the baker, the candlestick maker.
Perhaps you really mean to ask if the behaviour in your scenario is bribery.
On the face of ...
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Would it be ok to supply an item that deliberately stops working after the guarantee expires?
germany
If your machine actively destroys itself after the warranty is up, you commit the crime of damage to someone else's property under StGB § 303. You might also be liable for fraud, as this ...
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Can a computer be guilty of insider trading?
Can a computer be guilty of insider trading?
No.
In the united-kingdom a computer or "AI Bot" isn't an entity that can be prosecuted or sued.
The employees and the company are entities that ...
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Would it be ok to supply an item that deliberately stops working after the guarantee expires?
australia
Deliberately rendering the TV non-operational through software would appear to be malicious damage.
Under the Australian Consumer Law, one of the statutory guarantees is that a product must ...
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Is smart watch illegal while in control of the vehicle?
It says hold and use. Having a smartphone in your backpack is fine. Having a smartwatch on your wrist is fine. Using the smart watch for a phone call or a game or whatever while driving is not.
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Can a computer be guilty of insider trading?
However, if we take the demonstration at face value, and pretend it was happening in the real world, would a crime have occurred here? Assume none of the people involved expected the algorithm to use ...
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Can a surrogate be guilty of kidnapping?
british-columbia
Under the Family Law Act, s. 29, surrogacy refers to a situation in which a child is conceived through assisted reproduction and there is a surrogacy agreement made. But even where ...
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Who is liable for a resident mental care patient intruding someone's property?
united-states
The patient is personally liable unless the underlying law has a requirement of specific intent. There is a tort law rule stated in the Restatement (Second) of Torts that
Unless the ...
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Can a computer be guilty of insider trading?
I am in the US so my answer will be with our definition of Insider Trading (I doubt there are any real differences).I happen to work in software engineering for a large prop derivative trading firm ...
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8
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Is it legal to bribe a private eye?
This would be fraud
(1) A person who, by any deception, dishonestly--
(a) obtains property belonging to another, or
(b) obtains any financial advantage or causes any financial disadvantage,
is guilty ...
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What is the threshold for "key national infrastructure"?
With regard to roads, "key national infrastructure" are A or B roads, or 'special roads'.
Section 7(6) of the Public Order Act 2023 says:
(6)In this section “key national infrastructure” ...
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6
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Would it be ok to supply an item that deliberately stops working after the guarantee expires?
In the UK for consumer products you can normally claim for a fault that was present or developing at the time of sale for up to six years after purchase (five in Scotland). However, after six months ...
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Can a surrogate be guilty of kidnapping?
Not in germany for multiple reasons
Surrogacy is illegal in the first place. The contract for surrogacy is thus void and unenforceable in Germany. Acting as a placement agent for either a couple or a ...
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5
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At what point does a DUI begin?
canada
Assuming impairment or a blood-alcohol level above the prohibited amount can be proved, the complete offence is made out at least as soon as the accused occupies the driver's seat.
This is ...
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5
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Is smart watch illegal while in control of the vehicle?
I'm having trouble finding one page with the most up to date version of "Road Vehicles Regulations" with all amendments included, but the important amendment for this question is from 2003. ...
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5
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Is it legal to bribe a private eye?
There is a business agreement between the husband and the private eye. The husband pays the private eye, the private eye does their best to find certain evidence.
If the private eye takes money in ...
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5
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Rental contract specifies I have to pay the UK television license even if I don't own transmission equipment
UK's TV Licensing states
As a landlord, the TV Licence is your responsibility if you installed the device, unless the tenancy agreement specifies that it’s the tenants’ responsibility.
So the clause ...
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Can my employer withhold payslips, when the monthly salary is late
The relevant law is Itemised pay statement, s8 Employment Rights Act 1996.
(1) [F1A worker] has the right to be given by his employer, at or
before the time at which any payment of wages or salary is ...
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4
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Can a surrogate be guilty of kidnapping?
In the united-kingdom it depends on whether the intended parents are the legal parents.
At the birth of the child, the birth mother is the legal mother.
To become the legal parents, the intended ...
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Who is at fault right turn into u turner?
Clearly the other car had been stopped on the wrong side of the road, and pulled out without indicating.
However, they were on the major road which you were turning right onto, and they had their ...
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4
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What would one have to prove to use the truth defence in a libel claim of racism?
The defence would be "fair comment" in Canada, or "honest opinion" in the U.K.
canada
A claim that someone is racist would have to be defended under the "fair comment" ...
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Is it a breach of the PSED for the Secretary of State to declare Hamas but not the IDF or Likud a proscribed terrorist organisation?
The public sector equality duty (PSED) at section 149 Equality Act 2010 has nothing to do with overseas terror groups.
Aside from the lack of extraterritorial scope, none of the protected ...
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Is it a breach of the PSED for the Secretary of State to declare Hamas but not the IDF or Likud a proscribed terrorist organisation?
See R (on the application of Marouf) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 23.
The public sector equality duty does not have extraterritorial scope. The duty has the purpose of ...
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3
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Which court to challenge the reply from the UK prime minister?
The UK Law (Freedom of Information Act 2000) has a defined appeals process.
Appeal against notices served under Part IV. (1)Where a decision
notice has been served, the complainant or the public ...
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How does direct action result in a civil claims?
A wronged party has discretion to sue or not sue. Many considerations go into deciding whether to sue, including:
likelihood of success
likely amount recovered
ability of defendant to pay
the time, ...
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How does direct action result in a civil claims?
Greenpeace has been sued many, many times
While you may not have heard of it before, suits against (and by) Greenpeace and other environmental (and other protest) organisations are a relatively common ...
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3
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Non-compete clause with a bus factor of 1
united-states
Could I defend my position by arguing that since my current employer
won't be able to provide skillset "D", I'm only carrying on serving
those clients because "there is ...
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3
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What are the powers of a retail security guard compared to a police officer?
A security guard does not have special police privileges, but in the US the shopkeeper has a privilege known as the shopkeeper's privilege to detain a suspected shoplifter for a reasonable time, and ...
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2
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What legislation governs the use of the word “flavouring(s)” on ingredient lists?
united-kingdom
Flavourings authorisation guidance | Food Standards Agency
Flavourings are used to:
add a new taste or odour to a food
improve the existing taste or odour of a food
A commercial ...
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