SOMMARIO: 1. Public sector information (PSI) – 2. Case law as an essential source of PSI – 3. The Caselex project – 4. Building the system – 4.1. Understanding the needs and potential of the market – 4.2. Assessing the technological and legal barriers – 4.3. Creating the content repository – 4.4. Implementing the service – 4.5. Disseminating and exploiting the service – 5. The Caselex service –...

This article discusses issues relevant to recent efforts to increase veterinary reporting of cases of animal mistreatment in the USA. These issues include mandatory vs. voluntary reporting, client confidentiality obligations, the legal definitions of animal cruelty, abuse, and neglect in state laws, ethical conflicts between a veterinarian's obligations to animals and clients, perceived vs. rea...

The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study revealed that primary care clinicians did not always follow the legal mandate to report suspected child abuse to child protective services. National child abuse experts representing different disciplines met in a 2-day conference in January 2007 to discuss and develop new strategies that would address the barriers to reporting suspected child abuse a...

Introduction Every European Union member state has legal obligations to protect the rights of the child. Nevertheless, there are children in Europe that face significant barriers to accessing even essential health services, due to their or their parent’s migration or residence status. Undocumented children usually receive health care under the same conditions as adult undocumented migrants, wit...

How the term 'genetic test' is defined, matters for social policy. The past few years have witnessed many efforts to enact legal barriers specifically against genetic discrimination. To the extent that information derived from genetic tests receives special protection, both enthusiasts for genetic medicine and those who stress its perils have an incentive to adopt a broad interpretation of gene...

By ‘open access’ to literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without fi nancial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining acce...