Those who work in the legal system are often viewed negatively as unhelpful and unsympathetic to those in need of legal assistance. Applicants seeking help from legal personnel feel disdain for the legal process because their expectations are not satisfied. This study examines how the communication processes between people seeking legal assistance and legal personnel contribute to an asymmetric...

This paper deals with the role of abductive inference in legal reasoning. Both in the determination of the relevant facts and in the determination of their legal consequences abductive inference plays a crucial role, being the first step of such reasoning tasks. Two kinds of legal abduction are distinguished: an explanatory one aiming at the reconstruction of the relevant facts and a classifica...

© World Advertising Research Center 2004 THE ITALIAN ADVERTISING regulators tend to consider minors (all those aged under 18) as the most vulnerable consumers, requiring special protection against any potential attempt to harm their physical and psychological well-being through aggressive marketing techniques. Therefore, during recent years, ever more limitations and restrictions have been set ...

legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especially in formalist and inflexible legal systems is original subject of this article. in this article be analysed the nature and elements of legal fiction and its historical role in ancient roman law system and common law with comparative study in iran legal system. legal fiction as a legal mechanism in various legal systems especi...

It is important for legal education to develop a student’s capability to reason what kind of right and duty relations come to exist as a result of an application of law to a concrete case problem. A legal knowledge base system which logically infers the legal state of affairs as a conclusion from law together with the facts of a case and which clearly shows the reasoning process, is to be a use...

Sheffield where she at once found her way to the Workhouse. Correspondence as to her ultimate disposal thereupon ensued between the London County Council and the Sheffield Town Council. Four months later?August 7th 1919?she was, at her own desire, re-admitted to Alton as a voluntary case. She was thence transferred to a branch institution?the House of the Holy Rood, in Worthing? and was eventua...

Legal certainty decreases over time. Rules and principles of law become more and more uncertain in content and in application because legal systems are biased in favor of unravelling those rules and principles. In Part I of this Article, I attempt to show what these biases are, and why commentators who have argued that the law tends toward certainty are wrong. Part II describes various attempts...

In our January number we gave a report of legal proceedings in determining the place of residence under the Mental Deficiency Act of the cases of two mentally defective girls in the Cumnor Rise Home for the Feeble-minded, Cumnor, Berks... when the Petty Sessional Court at Abingdon decided that in both cases the liability for maintenance rested with the Berkshire Local Authority. The facts may b...

Abstract: The paper introduces 'Legal Cyberspace' which can be regarded as a tool for exploring other legal worlds. In practical terms legal cyberspace is a computer-generated interactive graphics environment, i.e. a system of databases and knowledge-base applications rather than a specific application. Developed from difficulties gaining access to foreign legal material for a research project ...