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Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
wiley   +1 more source

The Doctrine of State Necessity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
wiley   +1 more source

Holding space open: Wor(l)ding the ruins of Gaza. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Plan C Polit Space
Joronen M, Dader K.
europepmc   +1 more source

A trinitarian modal–spherical method of apologetics : an attempt to combine the vantilian method of apologetics with reformational philosophy

open access: yes, 2014
MA (Missiology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014The task of a reformed apologetics is the application of both theology and philosophy in the confrontation with unbelievers, bridging the gap between the natural man and the Gospel of ...
Braun, Guilherme
core  

Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
wiley   +1 more source

The Maximum Entropy Fallacy Redux? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Comput Biol, 2016
Aurell E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Bulk Discount for Multiple Offenders? A Lexical Local Justification

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper offers an original non‐consequentialist justification for the ‘bulk discount’ given to offenders who are sentenced for multiple counts in a single proceeding, a discount that is available in most jurisdictions. Existing justifications for this practice face serious objections. I propose a new account, ‘Lexical Local Justification’.
Peter Chau
wiley   +1 more source

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