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Criminal or nay?” Migrants’ administrative detention within the IAHRS:

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2022
In this paper, several aspects of the administrative detention discipline in the light of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) standards will be addressed.
Lorenzo Bernardini
doaj   +1 more source

Blurring Clinical and Best Interests Decisions: Townsend v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Healthcare decision‐making under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005) has long been understood as comprising two distinct, sequential decisions. First, a clinical decision about what treatment options are available. Second, a best interests decision about which (if any) of these options to proceed with.
Jordan A. Parsons, Alex Cisneros
wiley   +1 more source

House Searches and Seizures in Criminal Proceedings

open access: yesUniversity of Vienna Law Review
House searches as well as seizures and confiscations are coercive measures taken by the authorities in criminal proceedings to clarify the suspicion of a criminal offense in order to establish the material truth.
Günther Schaunig
doaj   +1 more source

Between Safeguard and Constraint: Navigating Patient Autonomy in Protective Laws for Medical Assistance in Dying

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There has been an increase in the number of jurisdictions legalizing or decriminalizing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Legal frameworks worldwide strive to balance respect for autonomy with regulatory safeguards that both operationalize voluntary choice and prevent access to MAiD in cases of remediable despair or coerced decision‐making ...
Janet Delgado   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Workers' Perceptions of Stakeholder Contributions to Regional Variation in the Numbers of ‘Care Orders at Home’ Being Recorded

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study builds on and extends the limited literature pertaining to the increasingly common care arrangement for children in England—the ‘Care Order at home’ [COAH]. Employing online focus groups and individual interviews, the study explores with 16 practising social workers their experience of COAH in both Northwest England and Greater ...
Ciarán Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

The ECtHR’s Final Ruling in Semenya v Switzerland: A Missed Opportunity to Uphold Human Rights in Sports?

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 687-707 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Factual and legal background. – 2.1. The DSD regulations and their impact on Ms. Semenya’s career.
Livia Hinz
doaj   +1 more source

Nadmierny formalizm procesowy jako naruszenie art. 6 ust. 1 Konwencji o ochronie praw człowieka i podstawowych wolności

open access: yesRuch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 2020
All judicial proceedings are inevitably based on the formalized procedures. Procedural provisions pursue many important objectives, such ensuring the effectiveness of proceedings or protecting legal certainty by regulating the competences of procedural ...
Marcin Szwed
doaj   +1 more source

Is there a ‘right’ to use Welsh in prison?

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of the Welsh language is generally understood as a ‘right’ in contemporary Wales. While this right is often lauded as one of Welsh devolution's defining achievements, the efficacy of current protections is contested. This article contributes to the debate by focusing on the prison context, where the question of Welsh language rights is
GREGORY DAVIES, ROBERT JONES
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of a Criminal Judgment on a Civil Case

open access: yesLaw & Criminology Journal
A criminal judgment, whether a conviction or an acquittal, can be relevant to a subsequent civil action. A criminal conviction may have a binding or evidentiary effect on a subsequent civil case.
Aleš Galič
doaj   +1 more source

Digitalisation of Enforcement Proceedings

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2023
This article focuses on the compatibility of electronic enforcement proceedings and the right to a fair trial. Since Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights is applicable to enforcement proceedings, enforcement proceedings must be effective ...
Remigijus Jokubauskas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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