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Human rights, zero tolerance: the paradoxes of punitive violence in a democratic state of law
Prisma Jurídico, 2011 Observed today, the consolidation of an authentic punitive culture in Brazil, capable of naturalizing the punitive damages will be launched on the social structure. Thus, notwithstanding the Constitution of 1988 enshrines citizenship and human dignity as
Raphael Boldt, Aloísio Krohling
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Work‐related injury and occupational disease remain major public health challenges worldwide; South Korea continues to report comparatively high industrial accident rates among OECD countries. To strengthen managerial accountability for worker safety, the Korean government enacted the Serious Accidents Punishment Act (SAPA) in 2021,
Hyewon Park, Misong Woo, Wanhyung Lee
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Remedies for Contractual Non-Performance under French Law
Московский журнал международного права, 2016 This survey presents overview of damages and other contractual remedies of French law and its comparison in some aspects with law of England. The present comparison of damages and other contractual remedies available to parties to a contract under French
A. V. Padiryakov, R. V. Barabash
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz +7 more
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Foodborne illnesses and product liability in the U.S.
Agricultural and Resource Economics ReviewA regulatory liability-based approach to reducing foodborne illnesses is widely used in the U.S. But how effective is it? We exploit regulatory regime variation across states and over time to examine the relationship between product liability laws and ...
Marziyeh Bahalou Horeh +2 more
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Los daños punitivos en el derecho mexicano. Algunas ideas para su interpretación
Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, 2020 Recientemente, la Primera Sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación dictó una resolución en la que declaró la admisibilidad de los daños punitivos en el derecho me-xicano, en materia de daño moral.
Jorge Eduardo Medina Villanueva
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PLoS ONE, 2021 In the poverty alleviation supply chain, subsidies for enterprises or farmers are widely implemented as part of government policy. However, subsidy fraud often occurs, such as misreporting cost information to secure subsidies. Inspired by this, our study
Fangyu Ye, Qilong Deng
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Australian 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
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The Legal Cap of Punitive Damage in Argentina
Civilistica.com, 2017 Since 2008, the Argentine Consumer Protection Law has permitted punitive damages. Thus, Argentina has become the first (and only) country with a pure continental-civil law system that allows punitive damages awards.
Matías Irigoyen-Testa
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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