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The pardon power in comparative perspective [PDF]

open access: yesStrani pravni život, 2018
Pardon is an institute that maintains certain archaic characteristics in its modern form and possesses, as a consequence of its long evolution, a number of specifics that are found in legal systems around the world, both in the terms of its legal nature ...
Đorđević Miroslav
doaj  

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

open access: yesAustralian 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Torments Through Time: Pardon in Brazilian Military Penal Law between Early Modern Rules and Liberal Justice (Council of State, 1842-1889)

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2021
Military criminal law in 19th century Brazil was governed mostly by the Articles of War (1763), which retained many characteristics from Early Modern punitive practices.
Arthur Barrêtto de Almeida Costa
doaj   +1 more source

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Graphical Presentations of Symmetric Monoidal Closed Theories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We define a notion of symmetric monoidal closed (SMC) theory, consisting of a SMC signature augmented with equations, and describe the classifying categories of such theories in terms of proof nets.Comment: Uses Paul Taylor's ...
Garner, Richard   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Punishment of Participating in a Murder [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامی, 2015
In the Islamic penal institution, a specific penalty is assigned for any offence which is fundamentally based on the idea of balance between the offence and the assigned penalty. Murder is one kind of offence which is sometimes committed by an individual
عباسعلی فراهتی   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pardoning Power of Article II of the Constitution, The [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
Following President Gerald Ford\u27s unconditional pardon of former President Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974, claims were made that the pardon was invalid because it came before indictment and conviction. Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski was urged to
Feerick, John D.
core   +1 more source

How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

‘En nous humblement requerant’: Crime Narrations and Rhetorical Strategies in Late Medieval Pardon Letters

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2019
The charters of pardon or ‘remission letters’ granted by the king of France and the duke of Burgundy in the late Middle Ages have often been interpreted as a valuable source material to access to the lives, memories, and even the ‘voices’ of the ordinary
Quentin Verreycken
doaj   +2 more sources

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