whenever there is a debt on someone, the debtor can pay back his debt and ask the creditor for a clearance. should the creditor refuse to accept the debt, this could be construed as an abuse and harm to the debtor who can turn to the court or any other competent authority. the court or the other competent authority could accept the debt on behalf of the creditor. in case the debtor is not able ...

in the global village of today, more people have been moving and migrating than ever before creating a need for better communication. thus community interpreting rose as a specialization serving the needs of members of the community who are unable to communicate with the system. within this broad field of interpreting the specialist area of legal interpreting assumed a high position. however, l...

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Authors’ Note: As this Article went to press, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. By a vote of 5-4, the Court rejected all of the legal arguments we discuss here as potential impediments to addressing the problem of climate change. First, the Court held that petitioners had standing to complain about the EPA’s refusal to regulate greenhouse gases because they met...

OBJECTIVE All 50 states and the District of Columbia have legal mechanisms to try juveniles as adults in criminal court. This study examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among youths transferred to adult criminal court and youths processed in the juvenile court. METHODS Participants were a stratified random sample of 1,829 youths, ten to 18 years of age, who were arrested and detai...

to the question of whether to allow the applicant to formulate the new (additional) claims in the course of proceedings, the permanent court of international justice has responded affirmatively. the international court of justice seems to depart from the approach adopted by its predecessor, giving considerable preponderance to the limits of the claim as delimited by the terms of the application...

also sought the interest they were required to pay on the back taxes. The two actions were combined for consideration by the Supreme Court, New York County. The lower court dismissed the claims of Alpert and Wolfman for back taxes but allowed recovery of the interest paid on the deficient taxes. Further, the court allowed the investors to amend their complaints to assert an additional claim of ...