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Defining Desire: Re(storyng) a 'fraudulent' marriage in 1901 Spain [PDF]
, 2020 In the second half of the 19th century, two Spanish primary school teachers were married despite the fact that their legal status as women rendered this union not only illegal but also publicly scandalous.
De Gabriel, Narciso +2 more
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The standard of proof the fact of legal presumption of respect
Law: Journal of the University of Latvia, 2022 In democratic countries, the presumption of innocence is one of the pillars of criminal justice, a symbol of respect of the person as the highest social value. It is a fundamental principle of criminal justice, the important warranty of human rights and
Dace Radzeviča
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Quoting from the case file: how intertextual practices shape discourse at various stages in the legal trajectory [PDF]
, 2014 Criminal trial hearings are communicative events that are densely intertextually structured. In the course of a trial hearing, written documents such as police records of statements made by suspects, witnesses and experts are extensively referred to ...
D'hondt, Sigurd, van der Houwen, Fleur
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CIVIL STATUS ACTS AS LEGAL FACTS [PDF]
Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Право, 2021 Словосочетание «акт гражданского состояния» имеет полисемантический концепт: юридический факт; правовой институт; источник (носитель) информации. Автором анализируется категория «акт гражданского состояния» в значении юридический факт как основание возникновения, изменения и прекращения правоотношений не только частного, но и публичного характера ...
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Legal aid reforms may leave welfare, employment and health disputes unresolved and actually increase the demand for court and tribunal hearings [PDF]
, 2011 The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill currently before parliament is intended, in part, to reduce demand for ‘costly litigation’ in key areas of civil law.
Bradley, Laura
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Learning to Predict Charges for Criminal Cases with Legal Basis
, 2017 The charge prediction task is to determine appropriate charges for a given case, which is helpful for legal assistant systems where the user input is fact description. We argue that relevant law articles play an important role in this task, and therefore
Feng, Yansong +4 more
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Finding footing in a postmodern conception of law [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright @ 2010 Pace UniversityThe following jurisprudence paper examines the implications of postmodern thought upon our conception of law. In this paper I argue that, despite the absolute, all-consuming moral relativism towards which postmodernism ...
Druzin, BH
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The relationship between the concepts of “legal facts” and “facts of legal significance”
Analytical and Comparative JurisprudenceThis article offers a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the concepts of “legal facts” and “facts of legal significance” within the framework of civil procedural law in Ukraine. The author focuses on the challenges of distinguishing between these categories, which are essential both for the development of civil procedure theory and ...
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A short note on interpretation of legal texts [PDF]
, 2014 The paper argues that the conventional theories of interpretation, often loosely but conveniently abbreviated for instance to the literal or purposive approaches, fail to problematise the process of interpretation sufficiently, and in fact operate to ...
Ressel, James
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Laws, 2016 In this paper we briefly focus on intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) and the Australian legal response, using recent Court judgements and Heather Wishik’s feminist jurisprudence framework for inquiry to guide investigation.
Jessica White, Patricia Easteal
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