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Mediation as Therapeutic Resolution for Conflicts about Patient Health and Care

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article shows how mediation can be a form of ‘therapeutic resolution’ in adult health and care disputes. These are typically disputes that arise under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 about an adult's best interests but also include complaints about adult health and care provision.
Jaime Lindsey
wiley   +1 more source

LIABILITY FOR SPAMMING IN THE RUSSIAN LEGISLATION: EXPERIENCE OF CRIMINALIZATION, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LAWMAKING INITIATIVES

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2011
The article views the experience of spamming criminalization in the Russian lawmaking practice, and reveals the narrow interpretation of spam as an offence in advertisement distribution.
A. I. Khaliullin
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The Actus Reus of Attempts

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

ON THE ISSUE OF BROADENING THE LIMITS OF ANTI-CORRUPTION EXPERTISE CARRIED OUT BY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2012
The article views the issues of broadening the object and subject of anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and their drafts carried out by the prosecutor’s office bodies.
D. A. Dmitriyev
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VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
wiley   +1 more source

THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF LEGAL REGULATION DEEVELOPMENT IN CORRUPTION COUNTERACTION IN OFFICIAL BODIES

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2012
The article reviews the existing anti-corruption institutions, analyzes the existing drawbacks and formulates suggestions for the development and improvement of the anti-corruption legislation and practice of its implementation.
T. L. Kozlov
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANTI-CORRUPTION MONITORING OF LEGASLATIVE REGULATIONS AS THE DIRECTION OF SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL RESEARCH (METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS)

Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2007
The acute issues of struggle against and prevention of corruption by means of anti-corruption monitoring are viewed in the article. The author presents the results of his activity in the workgroup of the State Duma commission on struggle against ...
V. V. Astanin
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