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Education and the Law of Defamation
Canadian Journal of Education, 1982 This paper summarizes Canadian law pertaining to defamation and looks at the educational cases in this area. The definition of defamation is explored generally, then the areas of defamation, libel, and slander are studied.
Joseph F. Pyra
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Legal Challenges to Open Source Licences
SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, 2005 This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO’s litigation and software patents.
Andrés Guadamuz González
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Conjugal Homicide and Legal Violence: A Comparative Analysis
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1993 This article examines the defences in English and Canadian criminal law available to battered women who kill their abusers. The article sets out in detail the formation and evolution of the doctrinal interpretation, in English law, of the defences of ...
Alison Young
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Change of position as a defence in unjust(ified) enrichment: Slovenian law in a comparative perspective [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2019 If one person is enriched at the expense of another and there is no legal ground for retaining this enrichment, the law imposes an obligation of restitution upon the unjustly enriched recipient, which is subject to various defences.
Lutman Karmen
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Právněhistorické studie, 2023 The article focuses on the legal institute of exceptiones in selected tractates written in the 14th century in the diocese of Prague. The first part introduces Circa processum iudiciarium and its inspirational sources, mainly rooted in William Durand’s ...
Veronika Ondrášková
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Battered Women and Mandatory Minimum Sentences
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2001 The author argues for the repeal of mandatory minimum sentences based upon their role in the distortion of defences available to battered women on trial for the homicide of their violent mates.
Elizabeth Sheehy
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BATTERED WOMAN SYNDROME: PROSPECT OF SITUATING IT WITHIN CRIMINAL LAW IN INDIA
BRICS Law Journal, 2021 In patriarchal cultures, like the one prevalent in India, rigid, polarised and hierarchical gender roles work to establish a strong normative relationship between gender and the treatment of offenders committing violent crimes like homicide.
AISHWARYA DEB
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In Defence of Culture? Racialised Sexual Violence and Agency in Legal and Judicial Narratives
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2015 There is a rich body of work in critical race and feminist theories that have criticised as Euro/Anglo-centric, and hence exclusionary, the liberal foundations of Western democratic legal systems.
Selda Dagistanli
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Beyond Democratic Tolerance: Witch Killings in Timor-Leste
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2015 Newly democratising states experience challenges in reconciling “traditional” or “customary” dispute resolution practices with newly established state-based legal systems based on the rule of law.
Rebecca Strating, Beth Edmondson
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Potential Investor Claims and Possible State Defences During the Covid-19 Emergency
Sriwijaya Law Review, 2021 Since it was announced as a public health emergency of international concern in 2019, Covid-19 has caused enormous loss of property and life. The country's emergency policies in responding to the Covid outbreak are numerous, such as closing public ...
Sefriani Sefriani, Seguito Monteiro
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