An Assessment of Private International Law

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Produce a briefing document for the Board of Directors of a UK SME which is looking to
expand its business internationally. The company produces business software solutions
delivered through Software as a Service (SAS). The software solutions support the generic
business functions of an engineering product design – being workflow based the software is
very highly customisable to specific company needs. The company sells to development and
production companies so has a very wide range of potential customers in each country. As
part of its customer service, the company offers a pre-sales consultancy service to work with
the company to ensure its business processes are ready for, and will benefit from, an IT
solution. It has the reputation in the UK of honesty and integrity and regularly walks away
from a contract where it feels it would not be in the best interests of the customer. This has
helped build its reputation as a top-class service provider. The software solutions currently
sold have associated patent, trademark and copyright IP protection in the UK.
The company objective is to expand its geographic coverage area and start selling its
products in a country which you can choose from the list below. The company is expecting
to set up an office (the “local office”) in the country and employ some local staff although
management of the business will be from the UK headquarters. To limit liability, the
company will set the “local office” and all in country sales and aftersales support as a
subsidiary company under the parent holding company.
Your task is to produce a short briefing document which clearly states the legal differences
between UK law and the law of your chosen country. You should focus your attention on
the key areas where there is a difference in the legal systems and hence the areas that the
company should be particularly mindful of in planning to trade in the country. You should
report on four areas of law where there is a difference.
The following is a suggested list of questions you could address in your briefing paper but do
not take this as a list of the only questions you should be answering. The full list of
important differences should come from your own research into the legal system of the
country based on the content of the entire law module.
· In the event of legal issues how would they be resolved?
· What legal rules apply to the establishment of a subsidiary company for the
“local office”?
· What are the IP implications? What steps does the company need to take to
ensure it has IP protection for its software solutions?
· What are the important differences in contract law?
· What are the important differences in employment law?
· Are there any specific ethical differences that could relate to trading between the
UK and customers in the country?
· How are professional engineers recognised in the country as a technical authority
in consultancy activities?
· In what language(s) would the software solutions need to be provided?

You can choose one of the following countries for your answer. You must use the same
country for the entire briefing document.
· Brazil
· Canada
· Chile
· China
· France
· Germany
· India
· New Zealand
· Russia
· South Africa
· Spain
· United Arab Emirates (UAE)
· USA

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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