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Justice and media: what a balance between the presumption of innocence and the right to information?

AAU Journal of Business and Law
The last decade has marked a remarkable increase in the role and authority of the media. Thus, their types have multiplied, and their capacity for influence has been strengthened, making them a leading source of information on law and justice, through ...

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Corporations and the Presumption of Innocence

Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2013
Corporate behaviour is often regulated through the criminal law by means of reverse onus offences. Such offences are alleged to involve violations of the Presumption of Innocence. Such allegations almost always assume natural persons as defendants. The arguments supporting reverse onus offences are typically instrumental, to do with the importance of ...
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Pioglitazone, Bladder Cancer, and the Presumption of Innocence

Current Drug Safety, 2022
Background: Thiazolidinediones are potent exogenous agonists of PPAR-γ that augment the effects of insulin to its cellular targets, mainly at the level of adipose tissue. Pioglitazone, the main thiazolidinedione in clinical practice, has shown cardiovascular and renal benefits in patients with type 2 diabetes, durable reduction of glycated ...
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Presumption of Innocence in Peril

Alternative Law Journal, 2017
This book explains the historical significance and introduction of the presumption of innocence into common law legal systems. It explains that the presumption should be seen as reflecting notions of moral comfort around judgment of others. Specifically, when one is asked to make a judgment about the guilt or otherwise of a person accused of wrongdoing,
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The Presumption of White Innocence

American Quarterly, 2014
This essay considers how “the presumption of innocence” in self-defense cases not only functions through whiteness but also normalizes violence against the black and/or brown body. Consequentially, “the presumption of innocence” renders black victimhood and black innocence illegible.
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The Prosecutor and the Presumption of Innocence

Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2013
In what ways is the conduct of prosecutors constrained by the presumption of innocence? To address this question, I first develop an account of the presumption in the trial context, according to which it is a vital element in a moral assurance procedure for the justified infliction of legal punishment.
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Rethinking the presumption of innocence

Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2006
This article is concerned with what constitutes interference with the presumption of innocence and what justifications there might be for such interference. It provides a defence of a theory of the presumption of innocence that suggests that the right is interfered with if the offence warrants conviction of defendants who are not the intended target of
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Preventive detention and the presumption of innocence: A legal paradox in Peruvian criminal law?

International journal of innovative research and scientific studies
This study examines the legal paradox between preventive detention and the presumption of innocence in Peruvian criminal law. Preventive detention is a precautionary measure of last resort, regulated by the New Code of Criminal Procedure (NCPP), designed
Hernán Yonathan Barragán Huamán
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The Ideal of the Presumption of Innocence

Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2013
This article clarifies and further defends the view that the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, protected by Article 6(2) of the European Convention of Human Rights has implications for the substantive law. It is shown that a ‘purely procedural’ conception of the presumption of innocence has absurd implications for the nature of the ...
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Woolmington ’s long shadow: The dissipation of the presumption of innocence under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872

The International Journal of Evidence & Proof
The presumption of innocence is considered a core value of criminal adjudication across jurisdictions today. However, to be an effective protection, it must apply not merely as an abstract declaration, but as a robust procedural right.
Kunal Ambasta
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