Investigative and judicial errors along with expert mistakes are variation of errors in criminal trials. Often investigative and judicial mistakes are due to negligent attitude of investigators and trial to the requirements of the procedural form of the criminal procedure law, violation of the rights and legitimate interests of persons involved in the case. Of particular importance in eliminati...

While the performance evaluation of judges has become a ubiquitous aspect of modern judicial administration, evaluation mechanisms of are too often utilised uncritically, without reflection on why we evaluate judges, and how ‘measurement’ furthers these objectives. This article provides a conceptual analysis of the role and purpose of performance evaluation, conceiving it as a limited tool of j...

one of the complicated debates in international commercial arbitration law is the matter of judicial competence for examination of challenge over arbitral awards and annulment proceedings. in the first part of this essay, i have tried to clarify that judicial competence on annulment proceedings is limited to national or domestic arbitral awards and then, to give main criteria for determination ...

In 2015, China Supreme People’s Court for the first time issued a judicial interpretation on civil procedure. order to address persistent problem of repeated prosecution parties abusing their litigation rights in proceedings, court makes provision prosecutions, so that it can be followed during trials. Undeniably, this has filled gaps law, but there are still some problems its application. At p...

En las diferentes instituciones del sector salud del Perú, los médicos reciben y asisten diariamente a personas con traumatismos ocasionados por agresiones intradomiciliarias. Por otra parte, las autoridades policiales, fiscal o judicial solicitan a los médicos una descripción detallada de las lesiones con la respectiva identificación de los agentes causantes (objetos contundentes, arma blanca,...

The introduction of molecular biology techniques, especially of DNA analysis, for human identification is a recent advance in legal medicine. Substantial effort has continuously been made in an attempt to identify cadavers and human remains after wars, socio-political problems and mass disasters. In addition, because of the social dynamics of large cities, there are always cases of missing peop...

The 1991 Credit Lyonnais court ruling expanded the fiduciary duties of managers towards debtholders in near-insolvent Delaware firms. Differences-in-differences tests reveal that innovation efficiency increased among all Delaware firms following the ruling. Further, Delaware firms close to (far from) insolvency reduced (expanded) their R&D expenditures and innovation output. Both sets of firms ...

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CONTEXT In 2005, Arkansas changed its parental notification requirement for minors seeking an abortion to a parental consent law, under which a minor can obtain an abortion without consent after obtaining a judicial waiver. METHODS Using state health department data on 7,463 abortions among 15-19-year-olds over the period 2001-2007, an analysis of abortion and second-trimester abortion rates ...