general agreement on trade in services (gats) -as one of the most important agreements of wto- provides some principles and commitments on services such as rail transport services. countries applicants for accession to wto have to correspond their legal and economic structures in the field of this section with gats principles. however, working groups of applicant countries can make some exempti...

Palliative care is patient and family-centred care that optimises quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Open Society Foundation public health program (2011) notes that people facing life-threatening illnesses are deeply vulnerable: often in severe physical pain, worried about death, incapacitation, or the fate of their loved ones. Legal issues can increase stress ...

Prioritisation of cases and resources as a means of rationing the limited legal aid budget has recently become a feature of access to justice in the UK. This article explores the utility of devising proxy models of ‘legal need’ as a means of enabling the rational and equitable planning of legal services in these circumstances. Different conceptual and methodological approaches are considered, h...

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...

In this paper, we present our approach in the field of e-Government services construction. In this work, the ontological level extracted from legal sources is used as means to define and to construct e-Government services. Building Information System (IS) and e-Government services based on legal sources presents many advantages: (i) the services and IS conforms to the legal framework that organ...