Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...

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...

Results Eleven systematic reviews involving verifiable and non-verifiable injuries met the inclusion criteria. Nine reviews reported an association between compensation and poor health outcomes. All of them were affected by the generally low quality of the primary (observational) research in this field, the heterogeneous nature of compensation laws (schemes) and legal processes for seeking comp...

Brain death is defined as the complete and irreversible absence of all brain function. It is diagnosed by means of rigorous testing at the bedside. The advent of neurologic or brain death criteria to establish the death of a person was a significant departure from the traditional way of defining death and remains ethically challenging to some. We review the ethical, cultural, religious and lega...

among legal purchasers of firearms— those who have passed their background checks— and the evidence that extending the denial criteria to additional high risk populations is feasible and effective. Its primary subject is persons convicted of violent misdemeanor crimes, a group sometimes referred to as notsolawabiding gun own ers. It will briefly consider persons who abuse alcohol, which is disc...

● all sufferers from the condition seek medical help ● the medical services always anticipate the diagnosis ● there is a universally accepted set of diagnostic criteria ● full diagnostic tests are done on every case and results are unequivocal ● all cases are processed by one central medical organization in each population ● information is kept in a form that can be readily transcribed, copied ...

An immense proportion of alleged felons are under the influence of mindaltering substances when they are arrested, and many people arrested for drug offenses and other crimes are addicted. Indeed, possession and use of illicit substances, which are necessary criteria of addiction, are crimes in every state and under federal law. Assessing the moral and legal responsibility of agents who engage ...

clarification of the legal and religious status of property ownership rights and paving the way for elimination of defects and completing existing rules and therefore, expanding economic security as well as determining and explaining the limits of expropriation by religious legitimate government and religious statement of permission of such an action from the islamic state and clearing objectiv...

INTRODUCTION In medico-legal evaluation of trauma patients, the bio-psychological effects of the trauma and the severity of the injuries require to be evaluated. In this study, assuming the fact that psychiatric assessment is not taken into consideration in physical trauma cases, we planned to show the presence of psychological trauma in our medico-legally evaluated patients who presented with ...

the legal proceedings over the difference between accreditation within the United Kingdom and specialist certification in the European Community. The joint committee had correctly advised Dr Goldstein that he had fulfilled the training requirements of the medical directives of the European Community, and could apply to the General Medical Council for the certificate of specialist training, a qu...