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Rape Reform and a Statutory Consent Defense

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1983
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Statutory Reform: The Draftsman and the Judge

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1981
A STATUTE is, when all is said and done, a form of literary composition. We in the United Kingdom do not today look for Napoleonic prose, of the distinction of the Code Civil, read every day by Stendhal "pour prendre le ton". But a statute is the supreme act of the Sovereign in Parliament addressed to the citizens.
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Statutory Reform in Other Jurisdictions

Abstract This chapter looks at some of the main statutory exceptions to the privity rule in common law jurisdictions outside of England. It considers legislation in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.
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Statutory Rape Law and Enforcement in the Wake of Welfare Reform

Stanford Law Review, 2000
The recent national efforts at reforming the welfare system and new research on the connection between teen pregnancy and statutory rape have led many states to enact stricter laws against statutory rape and to increase the enforcement of existing laws. Punitive statutory rape laws are being viewed more and more as a mechanism for shrinking the welfare
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Statutory Review: The Need for Procedural Reform

Judicial Review
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Governmental Responsibility in Tort. A Proposed Statutory Reform

The Virginia Law Register, 1925
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Statutory reform of aspects of construction law in Australia

Construction Management and Economics, 1997
Construction contract law in the common law world is largely free of direct statutory intervention. The agenda of calls within the United Kingdom to remedy major defects in construction law is used as a framework in a series of comparisons with recent legislation and practice in Australia, notably in Victoria where a holistic approach to the industry's
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Internet Intermediary Liability in Defamation: Proposals for Statutory Reform

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
The law of defamation has long been recognized as out of step with modern tort principles. For example, the publication element requires intentionally conveying defamatory content but no authorship or even knowledge of the content is required. Thus, some have referred to defamation as strict liability.
Hilary Young, Emily Laidlaw
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The Legal and Functional Status of the Medical Proxy: Suggestions for Statutory Reform

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1999
Medical technology, specialization, and the corporatization of health delivery systems in the late twentieth century have all helped give birth to an unwelcome but unavoidable responsibility for individuals with family or friends—serving as a health care proxy.
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Statutory reform of the death certification process in England and Wales

British Journal of Nursing
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the reforms to the death certification process and discusses the statutory examination of all deaths not referred to the coroner by a medical examiner
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