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“Silly girls” and “nice young lads”: vilification and vindication in the perceptions of medico-legal practitioners in rape cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article, we explore perceptions and presumptions in relation to rape, raped women, and rapists, among medico-legal professionals who perform forensic medical examinations in rape cases.
McMillan, Lesley, White, Deborah
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El derecho como punto de partida al concepto filosófico de "presunción": la contribución de Ullmann-Margalit

open access: yesTeoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2016
Resumen: El presente paper analiza la contribución de Edna Ullmann-Margalit al desarrollo del concepto filosófico de presunción (asumir desde la ocurrencia de un hecho conocido la ocurrencia de un hecho no conocido a modo de actuar sobre él).
Janaina Matida
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On Presumptions, Burdens of Proof, and Explanations

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2020
On the standard view, all presumptions share the same deontic function: they asymmetrically allocate the burden of proof. But what, exactly, does this function amount to?
Petar Bodlović
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On the Normativity of Presumptions: Contrasting Kauffeld’s and Whatelian Accounts

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
On a Whatelian conception, a presumption is a “supposition … [that] must stand good until some sufficient reason is adduced against it.” This view may be understood as operationalizing a distinct quality of warrant for the acceptability of claims ...
David Godden
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On the Existence of Irrefutable Legal Presumptions

open access: yesСибирское юридическое обозрение, 2020
The article criticizes the traditional approach to the definition of the concept of legal presumption and its legal properties. The possibility of the existence of legal presumptions that do not reflect the repeatability of life processes is ascertained.
N. N. Tsukanov
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Ten years on: consent under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As the clock ticked over from 30th April to 1st May 2004 the Sexual Offences Act 20031 came into force and the Sexual Offences Act 19562 was repealed, fundamentally changing the law on sexual offences in England and Wales.
Sjölin, C
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James Bradley Thayer, un precursor de la teoría de las presunciones

open access: yesTeoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2017
RESUMEN: James Bradley Thayer es habitualmente conocido en el ámbito del Derecho Constitucional por su conocido ensayo sobre el estándar del control de constitucionalidad (“The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law” [1893 ...
Raymundo Gama
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Clues in U.S. law - a comparative study in the Federal Rules of Evidence with some of the laws of evidence [PDF]

open access: yesالرافدین للحقوق, 2013
This research includes the study of presumption in American law and other comparative legal system, which is considerd as one of the Anglo-American laws, contains the use of presumptions as a method of evidence.
Wael Moaied Jalal Eddin Al - Jalili
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Intention to create legal relations and the reform of contract law: A conservative approach in the modern global era [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is partially to refute the submissions by Gulati’s article recently published on Beijing Law Review which proposes abandoning the requirement of proving intention to create legal relations for the formation of an enforceable contract.
Liao, Zhixiong
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Being a Correct Presumption vs. Being Presumably the Case

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2016
I argue for the distinction between presuming that p and maintaining that presumably p. In order to make sense of this distinction, I defend a non-inferentialist conception of presumptions and offer an account of the correctness conditions for both ...
Lilian Bermejo-Luque
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