legal accountability

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• Accountability — is the concept in ethics and governance with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as responsibility,[1] answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and other terms associated with the expectation of account giving. As …   Wikipedia

• legal culture — consists of values and norms concerning the content and operation of law. Reflecting as it does embedded values about socio economic and political relationships, legal culture constitutes the cognitive environment for legal behaviour. Chinese… …   Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

• Legal personality — (also artificial personality, juridical personality, and juristic personality) is the characteristic of a non human entity regarded by law to have the status of a person. A legal person (Latin: persona ficta), (also artificial person, juridical… …   Wikipedia

• accountability — I noun amenability, blame, burden, charge, commitment, dueness, duty, exposure, incumbency, liability, obligation, onus, responsibility, the decent thing, the proper thing, the right thing, trustworthiness, vulnerability II index blame… …   Law dictionary

• Legal person — Note: This Wikipedia entry deals with the legal concept legal person . There is an ongoing political debate and controversy in the U.S. over the extent to which constitutional rights presumed to have been created for natural persons have… …   Wikipedia

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• National Legal and Policy Center — The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is a right leaning 501(c)(3) non profit group that monitors and reports on the ethics of public officials, supporters of liberal causes, and labor unions in the United States. Among the NLPC s more high …   Wikipedia

• Principal Officials Accountability System — (zh t|t=主要官員問責制), commonly referred to as the Ministerial system, sometimes the Accountability system, was introduced in Hong Kong by Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa in July 2002. It is a system whereby all principal officials, including the Chief… …   Wikipedia

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers… …   Wikipedia

• Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform — The Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR) is a Canadian public interest organization and registered charity whose purpose is to support legislation and management practices that protect whistleblowers.Mission statementFAIR s mission …   Wikipedia