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Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
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Internal factors affecting the jury members verdict

open access: yesПсихология и право, 2013
The article is devoted to the analysis of socio-demographic and individual psychological characteristics that influence the verdict of jury. The study involved 38 men and women aged 25 to 64 years. With the help of a questionnaire, developed on the basis
Kalashnikova A.S., Levochkina N.S.
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TRIAL - DIRECTED VERDICT WHERE TESTIMONY IS CONFLICTING [PDF]

open access: yes, 1940
Defendants engaged the plaintiff to repair a barn roof. In his suit to recover damages for injuries sustained while on the defendants\u27 premises, the plaintiff testified that he had been struck by a truck which one of the defendants had been driving ...
Biggar, Edward S.
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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SERIAL EFFECTS OF EVIDENCE ON LEGAL DECISION-MAKING

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2012
The order in which evidence is presented to a criminal court might influence the verdict. This study investigated the serial position effect in a judicial context.
Raluca Enescu, André Kuhn
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Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
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Comments on a notorious verdict

open access: yes, 2018
“Comments on a notorious verdict: The trial of Lula" might be the most important judicial document published in Brazil for decades. The present selection of articles came to exist after a spontaneous movement, and significant enough as well, of Brazilian

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Adversarialism in the Family Courts in Child Arrangements Cases in England and Wales

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Most of the discussion of adversarialism has taken place in the context of criminal justice and it is often assumed that family courts are not adversarial, particularly in child arrangements cases where the stated focus is the future welfare of children.
Mandy Burton, Rosemary Hunter
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A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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