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The Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances

open access: yes, 2013
Can torture be justified in exceptional circumstances? In this timely work, Michelle Farrell asks how and why this question has become such a central debate. She argues that the ticking bomb scenario is a fiction which blinds us to the reality of torture and investigates what it is that that scenario fails to represent.
Farrell, Michelle,
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Exceptional Circumstances in OMP-04

open access: yes, 2004
A revision of the Operational Management Procedure (OMP) to be used for setting South African sardine and anchovy total allowable catches (TACs) and sardine total allowable bycatches (TABs) was adopted by the Marine and Coastal Management Pelagic Working Group in June 2004.
C L, Cunningham, D S, Butterworth
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Exceptional Circumstances and Treaty Commitments

2012
Abstract This chapter deals with the existence of ‘exceptional circumstances’ that States can invoke to avoid (or remove) their treaty obligations. The following doctrines that may serve this purpose are analysed: (i) supervening impossibility of performance; (ii) fundamental change of circumstances; and (iii) necessity.
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Exceptional Circumstances Schemes and the Social Factors Exclusion in Healthcare Rationing

open access: yesOxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, 2013
In 2011 Pharmac, New Zealand’s public agency charged with prioritising pharmaceutical medicines, introduced a new Exceptional Circumstances scheme which provided for the first time that a patient’s social circumstances would not be considered in ...
Joanna Manning
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Critique of Drought Models in the Australian Drought Exceptional Circumstances Report (DECR)

open access: yesEnergy and Environment, 2010
This paper1 evaluates the reliability of modeling in the Drought Exceptional Circumstances Report (DECR) where global circulation (or climate) simulations were used to forecast future extremes of temperatures, rainfall and soil moisture.
David R.B. Stockwell
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The End of Constitutions in Normal and Exceptional Circumstances

Journal of Juridical and Political Science, 2022
The normal, natural method of the end of a constitution is the termination of the constitution without violence or force, and the constitution is either flexible or rigid, based on the procedures and formalities followed in amending or canceling its texts. A constitution wouldn’t come to an end entirely; it would be amended partially.
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Encouraging Speech and Language Development in Exceptional Circumstances

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 1998
An evaluation of the accessibility of the speech and language therapy service within Down Lisburn Trust and a needs assessment of the levels of speech and language difficulties in preschool children was conducted between October 1996 and March 1997. Results highlighted that 42% of preschool children had speech and language difficulties, however only 17.
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[Adenotonsillectomy in children only under exceptional circumstances].

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 2005
More and more evidence is becoming available that throws doubt on the value of adenotonsillectomy in children with frequent throat infections or hypertrophic tonsils and adenoids. Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy have a limited range of indications. Objective symptoms such as the size of the tonsils and subjective symptoms of obstruction and sore throat
Bosch, W.J.H.M. van den   +1 more
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Brexit as an Exceptional Change of Circumstance?

2017
Few issues in the law of obligations have yielded solutions so disparate as those offered for exceptional changes of circumstances after the formation of contracts. These differences are especially noticeable between civil law systems, despite their common origins and the mutual influences.
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