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Effect of European Directives on Legal Regulation of the Limited Liability Company in the Czech Law

Časopis pro Právní Vědu a Praxi, 2008
A limited liability company has the basic features of capital companies. But compared to the joint stock company, which is a typically capital company, it shows certain features evoking a personal company (for example a change of the memorandum of ...
Jarmila Pokorná
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue, Peter Anderson, Mark Brimble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Some Reasons Courts Have Become Active Participants in the Search for Ultimate Moral and Political Truth [PDF]

, 2015
This short essay was prompted by the increasing delegation to courts of the responsibility for deciding what are basically moral questions, such as in litigation involving human rights conventions, as well as the responsibility for deciding basic issues ...
Christie, George C.
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Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt, Kay Cook, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Objective Liability and Consumer Protection in Land Public Transport

JIHK
The loss of passenger luggage stored in cabin compartments during land transportation raises significant questions regarding the legal responsibility of public transportation companies. This study analyzes the legal liability of PT. Rosalia Indah Transport for passenger losses, examines the available compensation mechanisms under Law No.
openaire   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A strategic approach to the implementation of section J, chapter 18, Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement on Internet

Journal of International Economics and Management, 2016
Section J, Chapter 18 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement on Internet Service Providers (ISP), with the objectives of providing copyright holders with effective legal remedies against online copyright infringement whereas properly limit the ...
Thi Mai Khanh Pham
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sex‐Specific Genetic Architecture of ALS: Evidence of a Female Protective Effect?

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) shows sex differences in incidence and age of onset, yet the underlying biological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Methods We investigated sex‐specific genetic architecture in an Italian ALS cohort with whole‐genome sequencing (1,333 ALS cases, 755 controls).
Maurizio Grassano, Francesca Palumbo, Gabriele Mora, Salvatore Gallone, Giovanni De Marco, Ilaria Merulla, Claudia Paolantonio, Alessandra Maccabeo, Antonio Canosa, Umberto Manera, Rosario Vasta, Barbara Iazzolino, Marcella Testa, Giuseppe Fuda, Paolina Salamone, Giulia Marchese, Federico Casale, Cristina Moglia, Andrea Calvo, Giuseppe Borghero, Adriano Chiò   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source