The computer forensic discipline was established around 2000 in mainland China, which was further developed along with Chinese judicial appraisal system in 2005. This paper introduces the reformation of computer forensic legal system in mainland China, the general concept of computer forensic legal system, the management of computer judicial experts, the management of computer judicial expertis...

Parliamentary procedures are undoubtedly at the heart of (national) parliamentary sovereignty. However, in last two decades, courts, including supranational ones (e.g. ECtHR), increasingly getting involved assessing application rules and procedures. This increasing judicial activism highlights importance finding equilibrium between right to an effective remedy, which inevitably should encompass...

nowadays, the effort for ease of doing business is the more important worry in transition economies in the way of reaching in economic development and high competitiveness. according to intuitionalism theories, the inefficiency of judicial system causes to increase trade costs, and so, violates the business environment. by studying the rank of iran's ease in doing business between other world c...

The Rivers v. Katz decision substituted judicial review for administrative review of requests for involuntary medication of patients in New York State mental hospitals. This change, prompted by concern for the rights of involuntarily committed patients, did not delay or diminish the use of involuntary medication in a large state hospital. Advantages of judicial review include a better understan...

The judiciary needs to be independent of outside influence, particularly from political and economic powers. But judicial independence does not mean that judges and court officials should have free rein to behave as they please. Indeed, judicial independence is founded on public trust, and to maintain it, judges must uphold the highest standards of integrity. This chapter focuses on the account...

Progressive reformers envisioned a therapeutic juvenile court that made individualized treatment decisions in the child's "best interests." The Supreme Court's Gault decision provided the impetus for transforming the juvenile court from an informal welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court. Since Gault, the juvenile court procedures increasingly resemble those of adult courts, although i...

Organized psychiatry has not been very successful in communicating to government what it believes to be appropriate professional standards of psychiatric treatment or what it believes to be appropriate governmental policy to provide such care. Governmental mental health care is primarily a matter of state government, not federal government. Therefore, any attempt to influence social policy must...