Ken Kurzweil rightfully called the Judicial Workshop a success. Much was discussed and prospects for an effective judicial system appear good. But let's highlight, for a moment, those who made the Workshop a success. It was motivated by students, people such as Ken Kurzweil, Ken Blaisdell, Alan Ceppos, Barry Kirschner, Michele Mazepa, Mario Arthur and Sharon Stiller (with apologies to any unmen...

The article considers the place and role of witness testimony in system means evidence economic litigation. To this end, relevant procedural legislation is analyzed, which provides a definition witnesses regulates procedure for obtaining them. analysis scientific sources revealed that institute witnesses, litigation, one topics discussion not only among practitioners but also scholars. A critic...

bottleneck in state courts and consequence resulting form it and the advantages which the disputes settlement has outside the court for governments and especially the parties to dispute led to increasing promotion of arbitration and use of new method of dispute settlement which are described as “alternative dispute resolution” (adr) are described. meanwhile, many of this method settle the dispu...

This is a revisitation of an earlier paper on the same topic. shows sharp shift debate towards austerity. The current in Brazilian Civil Procedure revolves around efficiency, legal certainty, and access to justice, not As matter fact, over austerity nonexistent Brazil so far. By expanding justice broader portion society, system increased number cases costs associated with judicial system. But e...

The relationship between judicial elections and judicial independence is receiving considerable scrutiny today. This article examines the impact of elections on judicial independence from the perspective of voters, since it is voters’ choices that ultimately determine the electoral fates of incumbent judges. The research on voting in judicial elections helps in understanding the circumstances t...

To understand policy-motivated behavior of Supreme Court justices it is necessary to measure their policy preferences. To date, most scholars have assumed the policy preferences of Supreme Court justices remain consistent throughout the course of their careers, and most measures of judicial ideology – such as Segal and Cover (1989) scores – are time invariant. This assumption is facially valid;...

Suicide statistics for Britain (England and Wales) from 1950 to 1990 are analysed. A rising suicide rate among males, particularly the young, is associated with an increased use of hanging as a suicide method. The same trend is not seen among females. Death by hanging can seldom be concealed or regarded as other than suicide, so statistics for suicidal hanging are likely accurate. Increased sui...