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Environmental Criminal Enforcement in Poland and Russia: Meeting Current Challenges

Utrecht Law Review, 2020
Environmental criminal law provides for measures targeting the most serious environmental offences and improving the enforceability of environmental provisions.
Denis Solodov, Elżbieta Zębek
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Challenges in Harmonising and Implementing the Environmental Crime Directive

Teisė, 2021
The article analyses the harmonisation framework under TFEU of the Directive 2008/99/EC and the possible difficulties in implementing the document in national legislation.
Ieva Marija Ragaišytė
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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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Environmental protection through criminal law [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2011
Environmental protection is undoubtedly one of the priorities of today, both nationally and internationally. Environment is understood as the totality of natural and man-made values. Environment is primarily protected through administrative and civil law.
Lukić Tatjana
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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The Future of EU Substantive Criminal Law

European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2022
Abstract When criminal law became one of the components of the Union’s objectives, the EU obtained explicit substantive criminal law competences. Minimum rules on substantive criminal law facilitate the principle of mutual recognition, allow for the approximation of sanctions and common definitions of certain offences, and make it possible to respond ...
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

REFERENCE FOR A PRELIMINARY RULING ON CJEU: THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS IN CRIMINAL MATTERS

Revista de Estudos Jurídicos da UNESP, 2020
Purpose of this investigation is to give answers and make a technical/procedural overview on preliminary reference in criminal matters as well as to examine the application of art. 267 TFEU in the context of criminal proceedings.
Dimitris Liakopoulos
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