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Realising the Child's Best Interests: Lessons from the Child Justice Act to Improve the South African Schools Act

open access: goldPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016
Although the contexts of school discipline and child justice differ considerably there are a number of contact points and points that overlap. Since the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 came into operation in 1996, the Constitutional Court has made ...
Mariëtte Reyneke
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Who decides the “best interests” of the child?

open access: hybridIndian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016
B was a frail 15-year-old girl who was brought to the hospital by the police. She had met a 22-year-old boy on a social networking site a few months earlier. They had fallen in love and she had started living with him. On finding his daughter missing, B's father reported the matter to the police station. The police caught the couple and brought them to
Sujata, Ayarkar, Aarthi, Chandrasekhar
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A Child-Centered Framework for Determining Mental Distress Severity and Liability: Evidence from Chinese Judicial Practice [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Compensation for mental distress in preschool children is a crucial mechanism for protecting their personality rights, yet current judicial practice in China relies heavily on judicial discretion and lacks child-sensitive standards for determining ...
Qidi Xue, Dongqing Yu, Zexin Zhang
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Navigating healthcare decision-making for children requiring life-sustaining medical treatment in Ireland: exploring clinician perspectives through the lens of the Irish legal system [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics
Healthcare decision-making within the pediatric population is a complex area to navigate for clinicians, parents and/or legal guardians, and children, and is even more complicated when children require intensive life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT ...
M. Brenner   +4 more
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Criteria for assessing the best interests of the child in proceedings for the protection of children's rights [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2023
The principle of the best interests of the child is one of the four fundamental guiding principles underlying the system for the protection of children's rights under the auspices of the United Nations and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Mihajlović Ljubica
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Is the Writing on the Wall for the Genetic Link Requirement in Surrogacy Agreements?

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2023
For a valid surrogate motherhood agreement, section 294 of the Children's Act 38 of 2005 provides that the child born of the surrogacy arrangement must be conceived with the gamete of at least one of the commissioning parents.
Aliki Edgcumbe
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Family law issues in the case of posthumous reproduction [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2013
The possibility of freezing genetic material and the production of embryos in vitro, has create the possibility of new forms of assisted reproduction. In fact, today it is possible to use genetic material and get children after the death of the person ...
Samardžić Sandra
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Dispensation of Marriage in The Perspective of Children's Rights: Best Interest of The Children

open access: yesJurnal Penelitian Hukum De Jure, 2022
Underage marriage with marriage dispensation is very influential on the lives of children and adolescents. The Convention on the Rights of the Child has determined that the best interest of the child is the primary interest in any action concerning the ...
Nabilah Luthfiyah Chusnida   +1 more
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The perspectives of same-sex parenting in Serbia: Between needs and opportunities [PDF]

open access: yesPravni Zapisi, 2022
In the context of current aspirations in terms of drafting and adopting a regulation that would finally legalize same-sex unions in Serbia, particularly important issue relates to the effect of same-sex union on the legal position of a child in such ...
Vlašković Veljko, Arsić Jelena
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A Comparative Study of the Iranian Model of "Protecting Children and Adolescents in Cyberspace": Evaluation from the Perspective of International Child Rights Standards [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه حقوق تطبیقی, 2023
The "Document for the Protection of Children and Adolescents in Cyberspace" creates a national model for legal regulation and management of cyberspace regarding Iranian children and adolescents.
Ehsan Shahsavari
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