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The role of the supreme courts: in the search of the balance between private and public interests in civil procedure

Проблеми Законності, 2020
The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem issues of the role of the supreme courts in common law and civil law legal traditions through the prism of models of proceedings in such courts in order to determine the general trends in this field ...
Тетяна Андріївна Цувіна
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Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
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Legal Amendments of the Civil Procedure Act and the European Convention on Human Rights and fundamental freedoms

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2005
The Civil Procedure Act, which was in force throughout the entire SFRY, was adopted by the Republic of Croatia, by the Adoption of Legal Procedural Law ('Narodne Novine' 53/91) which čame into effect on October 8, 1991. It was amended by the law relating
Amara Trgo
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Comparative Study of Civil Procedure in Common Law and Civil Law Systems

Journal of Politics and Law, 2016
Comparing the legal systems is a specific method in which due to its important function is considered as a separate branch in law. None of the branches in law can place its knowledge merely on ideas and findings within the national borders. Several basic objections have been given regarding the definition and purpose of comparative study in civil ...
Nader Ghanbari, Hassan Mohseni, Dawood Nassiran   +2 more
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Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy, M. Grace Albright, Kendall B. Roberts, Meghan A. Costello, Anthony J. Jannetti, Alexis R. Wing, Randi M. Schuster   +6 more
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Practical Straits of the Forensic Examination in China

Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2016
With the revision of the Criminal Procedural Law of the PRC and the Civil Procedural Law of the PRC in 2012, it has entered a new historical stage of litigation system and made significant progress in forensic examination system in China.
Zhong Zhang
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Judicial Perspectives on Neurodiversity in Queensland Courts, Tribunals and Commissions: Experiences With Disclosure and Witness Credibility

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about the impacts of the disclosure, or the non‐disclosure, of medical conditions associated with neurodiversity in the context of court proceedings and hearings before tribunals and commissions. This paper examines the experiences of twenty‐three Queensland Judges, Magistrates, and Tribunal and Commission Members with ...
Danielle Bozin, Karen A. Sullivan, Vincent Denault, Catherine Kennon, Lucy Cradduck, Rachel Hews   +5 more
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
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Phenomenon of formalism in civil procedure

Проблеми Законності, 2018
The article analyzes the existing in the scientific literature point of view on the essence of the procedural formalism and justifies that it should not be identified with the civil procedural form. It acts as a consequence of its existence and is always
Nataliia Yurievna Sakara
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Public Attitudes Toward Compassionate Release of Older People From Prison: Findings From a National Survey in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid increase in older people in prison populations worldwide is generating significant health, cost, and human rights pressures on custodial systems. Compassionate release for older, frail inmates is a potentially effective response, yet little is known about public support for this approach.
Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Natasha Ginnivan, Amanuel Kidane Hagos, Tony Butler   +3 more
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