[Download] "Social Work Misconduct May Lead to Liability (Practice Update)" by Social Work # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Social Work Misconduct May Lead to Liability (Practice Update)
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 172 KB
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"It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of its citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals" (President Abraham Lincoln, First speech to Congress, 1861). In a recent U.S. Court of Appeals case, Currier v. Doran (2001), the court ruled that state-employed social workers can be held liable for the acts of others when those social workers "created the danger" that caused the harm. To establish a proper danger creation claim, a plaintiff must demonstrate that