Regional Legal Assistance

Medical assistance at the sea: legal and medico-legal problems.

BACKGROUND In case of pathologies or accidents on board which require medical intervention but lacking on-board medical or paramedical personnel, the ship's captain, or his delegate can contact a Telemedical Maritime Assistance Service (TMAS). International Maritime Organisation considers telemedicine at sea as an integral part of rescue procedures. Five key elements contribute to the delivery ...

Housing assistance and regional disadvantage

Controlled Natural Language in a Game for Legal Assistance

This paper addresses the design of an automated legal assistant capable of performing a logical analysis of legal documents and using natural language as a medium of communication with a human client. We focus on the interplay between natural language in which the legal document is expressed and the formal logic used for reasoning about it — ideally approached using a controlled natural languag...

Introducing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: Some Legal Issues

The introduction of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in road traffic induces many complex questions. One of them is whether or not present legislation frameworks are able to accommodate a smooth development and market implementation of ADAS. This is strongly related to the aspect of traffic safety. The various aspects related to this issue are categorised based on an exploration of the...

The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands

FRoM the FIeld | 155 The purpose of this article is not to provide a critical analysis of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) or a robust platform for lessons learned. Rather, it offers a general introduction to the country and an overview of a stabilization and reconstruction operation with a different framework than many of the operations that the United States has ...