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Of hired guns and ideologues: Why would a law firm ever retain an honest expert witness?

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Suppose that expert witnesses appearing in litigation are, generically, either honest in their assessment of a fact situation or are advocates who testify in favour of their retaining party, regardless of new information. The type of a witness is known to law firms, who engage with them repeatedly, but not to courts.
Martin Richardson, Jose Rodrigues‐Neto
wiley   +1 more source

The court of public opinion: The limited effects of elite rhetoric about prosecuting political leaders. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Markovits DB, O'Donohue A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Spite in litigation

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies how litigation and settlement behaviour is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American fee‐shifting rule compared to the English one. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures are overall higher under the English rule compared to the American rule—even for low‐merit cases ...
Wladislaw Mill, Jonathan Stäbler
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Local Differential Privacy for Compliance with the Personal Data Protection Law in Integrated Data Systems. [PDF]

PLoS One
Aljably R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Some of thе tactics features of public prosecutor maintenance of thе state prosecution in court

, 2013
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwsxkKR5RHXc0MyKqqwCxJRCFdmaIrcU/view?usp=sharingВ статті аналізуються окремі аспекти і особливості тактики підтримання прокурором державного обвинувачення в суді, зумовлені прийняттям нового КПК України.
Сукач, І. В., Копетюк, М. І.   +1 more
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Canada's Ethics Commissioner and the Watchdog Model of Ethics Enforcement

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite notable progress, the OECD recently noted that conflict of interest regulation still suffers from poor implementation and how to ensure effective enforcement of ethics rules remains an important challenge. One popular but under‐examined approach is to rely on an ethics watchdog: an independent agency with few powers that can ...
Luc Juillet
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional dynamics and hearing differentiation under a unified procedure: a field study of grassroots procuratorial hearings in China. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Liang D, Tian X, Sun S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Institutional Ethnography of Teeth Whitening Industry: How Professional Power Becomes Commercial Power in Dentistry

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to demonstrate how power is exercised, and by whom, to expand the practice of teeth whitening in dentistry and the resultant consequences for the public. Methods Institutional ethnography (IE) conducted in England that included 100 h of observations at cosmetic dentistry conferences, training and treatments; five ...
Rizwana Lala, Peter G. Robinson, Barry J. Gibson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Real Sexual Harassment": Attrition Among Police-Reported Sexual Molestation Crimes in Sweden. [PDF]

Violence Against Women
Wegerstad L, Andersson U.
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source