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Ethnoecological perspectives on environmental stewardship: Tenets and basis of reciprocity in Gitxsan and nłeʔkepmx (Nlaka'pamux) Territories

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Local and Indigenous Peoples steward and protect a significant proportion of biologically diverse ecosystems globally. This fact is increasingly acknowledged by researchers and international organizations, offering both opportunities and challenges at the intersection of Indigenous and western knowledge production in the context of ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plainly Wrong

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 122-143, January 2023., 2023
English law and wider common law jurisprudence have endorsed the condition that an appellate court should reject a trial judge's finding of fact which it believes is ‘plainly wrong’. Courts have not explained what makes a finding plainly wrong, however. Scholars have largely ignored the issue.
Adam Perry
wiley   +1 more source

Re-formulation zakat system as tax reduction in Indonesia

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, 2019
Zakat is one of the Islamic financial instruments which is obligatory for every Muslim whose earnings reach the prescribed amount (nishab). On the other hand taxes must still be paid as an obligation of every citizen.
Hary Djatmiko
doaj   +1 more source

Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability Byers v Saudi National Bank

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 276-288, January 2023., 2023
In Byers v Saudi National Bank [2022] EWCA Civ 43 the Court of Appeal examined a seemingly straightforward question: where rights are dissipated in breach of trust, is it a necessary condition of the recipient being liable for ‘knowing receipt’ that the dissipation did not extinguish the beneficiary's rights?
Alexander Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Victim in the Criminal Justice System

open access: yesDev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal, 2014
The victims of crime are those who have formerly endured injury or are possibly suffering as an outcome of crimes having been committed. The direct family or dependants of the direct victims, who are harmfully affected, are also included within the ...
MEERA MATHEW
doaj   +1 more source

Partisans in Robes: Party Cues and Public Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions

open access: yes, 2014
The public perceives the Supreme Court to be a legal institution. This perception enables the Court's legitimacy-conferring function, which serves to increase public acceptance of its decisions.
Stephen P. Nicholson, Thomas G. Hansford
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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