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Article: Another viewpoint.(fairness)
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- LawNow
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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What would the world look like if we all had to act fairly? If you stop to think about it, is there any justification for not treating each other fairly? Yet as the law currently stands, very few of us have a legal duty to treat others fairly. And the area of law that deals with this duty is little known.
When we think of law we usually think of criminal law. Indeed, we get a daily feed of news headlines that condition us to this top of mind recall. We tend to think of the civil justice system only when something more extraordinary happens. A well-known politician brings a defamation action against a critic; someone sues a prominent professional for negligence; ...