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Droit et CulturesRestorative Justice is a theoretical and practical paradigm on justice that focuses on resolution of conflicts and different parties’ needs, rather than on the punishment of offenders.
Olga Jubany, Isabelle Carles
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DETERMINATION OF THE LEGAL INTEREST APPLICABLE TO THE AMOUNTS CHARGED UNDER ABUSIVE CLAUSES INCLUDED IN CREDIT CONTRACTS CONCLUDED IN ROMANIA, IN FOREIGN CURRENCY [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge SocietyRomanian legislation allows the granting of loans in foreign currency, even if both the credit institution and the borrower have Romanian nationality. To the extent that these contracts contain abusive clauses allowing the charging of certain commissions
Șerban-Alexandru STĂNESCU
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Droit et CulturesRestorative Justice is a theoretical and practical paradigm on justice that focuses on resolution of conflicts and different parties’ needs, rather than on the punishment of offenders.
Olga Jubany, Isabelle Carles
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, 1993 Punitive damages are a powerful means of controlling antisocial conduct. In both historic and present context, however, courts and commentators have expressed serious concern over the role of punitive damages awards in the civil justice system.\u27 In a ...
Johnson, Alison D.
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Social restitution: tools and actions to rehumanise and transform injustice
Acta AcademicaRestitution has predominantly been described as a legal rather than a social action in international law, as well as in South Africa’s history of truth, reconciliation and redress policies after the end of apartheid.
Sharlene Swartz
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Punitive Damages for Constitutional Torts
, 1996 Critics complain that punitive damages often serve no good purpose. Whatever the merit of this charge as a general proposition, it is not universally valid across the range of tort suits.
Wells, Michael L., Wells, Michael
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, 2009 This Article analyzes the likely impact of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence applying substantive and procedural due process limits on punitive damage awards to class action punitive damage Lawsuits. In BMW v. Gore and State Farm v. Campbell the Supreme
Underwood, James M.
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Mass Liability and Punitive Damages Overkill
, 1979 With huge punitive damage awards now available to plaintiffs in products liability and other mass disaster cases, the danger of multiple liability for the same act is great.
Schulkin, Alan
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Class Actions for Punitive Damages
, 1983 This Note argues that a Rule 23 class action offers the best way to manage multiple actions for punitive damages. It begins by examining the policy underlying punitive damages and the plaintiffs interest in recovering them. It then explains why a limited
Michigan Law Review
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Punitive damages: perception and reality
, 2017 This article reports and discusses the results of an empirical study of punitive damages, which damages are awarded in order to punish and deter the defendant rather than to compensate the claimant for loss. We examined all electronically available cases
Goudkamp, J +3 more
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