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Latest Legal Case: Your Duty of Care—Where Does it Begin and End?

Duty of Care is the legal duty to protect another from harm. It is the first element that must be established to proceed with an action in negligence. When you bring a client into your program, you almost always establish some duty of care to that client. But where does this duty begin and where does it end? A recent sexual assault case in Maine where the assualt happened after the program explores this delicate legal issue and raises some critical questions for things that happen outside your program. Now that many programs are using social networking like Facebook pages, discussion forums, and Twitter as follow-up tools after a program, everyone should understand this legal issue. Reb Gregg and Catherine Hansen-Stamp, the legal authorities at the Adventure & Recreation Law Center, review the details of this Maine case. Subscribe now and gain access to the complete library of Legal Cases.

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Legal Issues: Potential Legal Liability for Sexual Activities and Assault - Frances Turner Mock

Article from the 2006 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Frances Turner Mock from the...
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Program Management: Managing Your Organization’s Driving Risk - Kurt Merrill

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Kurt Merrill from the Wilderness...
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Legal Issues: The Elusive Reasonable Person - Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen-Stamp

Article from 2007 Wilderness Risk Management Conference Proceedings by Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen...
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Legal Issues: Releases Revisited - Reb Gregg & Catharine Hansen-Stamp

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Patagonia Video - Yosemite: Ground Up Perspectives

Inspired by the recently rediscovered Glen Denny photographs of sixties climbers Patagonia featured in...
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