Coercive mechanical restraint (MR) in psychiatry constitutes the perhaps most extensive exception from the common health law requirement for involving patients in health care decisions and achieving their informed consent prior to treatment. Coercive measures and particularly MR seriously collide with patient autonomy principles, pose a particular challenge to psychiatric patients' legal rights...

Public knowledge of rights has been the subject of a number of empirical enquiries over the last decade. In England and Wales, knowledge of rights and its relationship with an individual's capacity to 'self-help' and 'self-represent' when faced with a civil justice problem has become the subject of renewed attention following changes to legal aid which, from March 2013, will see the availabilit...

implementation of the right of defence in the modern administrative law is very important as widely recognized in the world's important legal systems. the object of this paper is to determine the conditions of this right and then, to compare its situation in european :union: and iran's legal system. the conditions of this right are hearing, access to file and knowledge of the reasons ...

one of the non- judicial enforcements which is addressed by some legal systems in order to preserving rights of a contracting party against breach of obligation of other party, is the right for sale of goods in self-help type by the damaged party .this enforcements was predicted and addressed in both vienna convention for international sale of goods and iranian legal system. but it is still unk...

In Between Facts and Norms, Habermas articulates a system of rights, including human rights, within the democratic constitutional state. For Habermas, while human rights, like other subjective rights have moral content, they do not structurally belong to a moral system; nor should they be grounded in one. Instead, human rights belong to a positive and coercive legal order upon which individuals...