... in developing a human rights-based approach to poverty, I argue that this objective has been met only to a limited extent. poverty human rights Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights United Nations soft law legal practice Eradication of extreme poverty at the international level has a long...

... posits that child rights can serve as a clear, multi-faceted framework that enables litigators to strengthen their existing practice in a legitimate, unified and coherent way. UN Convention on the Rights of the Child child rights children's rights strategic litigation legal practice impact...

..., as well as societal stigmatisation of claimants were also cited as providing challenges for practitioners. A complex understanding of this role emerged in times of austerity, where anti-immigration sentiment is common within society. asylum law legal practice burnout secondary trauma An asylum...

... consequences of our theory for legal practice. belief functions prior ignorance lack of additivity lack of belief versus disbelief evidence island problem parental identification Bayes’ rule legal practice First, when we look at the island problem in Example 1.2, it is simply the case that we do...

... of the resulting influences on professionals using material from the interviews, and consider the implications of our findings. profession professional service firm client capture ethics lawyer corporate legal practice [Arthur] Andersen team members routinely succumbed to demands for certification from Enron...

... developed into a subgroup of trade mark practice, addressing a combination of issues that are not found elsewhere in trade mark legal practice. Special features of this practice relate to the need to navigate a system of appellations that takes in international non-proprietary names and generic names...

... in international legal practice. One major challenge that must be overcome when writing about sustainable development is the conceptual fog coating a large part of the work in this area. This is partly due to the deliberate vagueness of the concept, which lends itself to far too many (mis-)interpretations...

... gifts payment for appointment schemes publics sale of offices wealth extraction false witnessing fatwas administration of justice Krafft Hans Ulrich qadis evidence Ibn Abidin imperial council discourses siyaset Ottoman corruption premodern Western perspectives legal practice evidence...

... McGarvie QC Humphreys Christmas disclosure of evidence evidence Jefferson Thomas Marshall Chief Justice witnesses Anderson Timothy fairness prosecutors legal ethics legal practice penal sanctions Prosecutors are prone to regard themselves as champions of truth and justice, unbesmirched...

... of ethical problems encountered in day-to-day practice. With the support of the Australian Research Council and the Queensland Law Society, a series of interviews were conducted with legal practitioners to identify the types of ethical issues commonly encountered in a modern Australian legal practice...

... American Planning Association Institute of Transportation Engineers litigation social norms Civil Rights Act 1964 ethnic disparities Healthy People 2010 Hill Burton Act racial disparities emergency powers genetics hurricanes Katrina Hurricane natural disasters public health practice legal...

... is that there is a tension between the rhetoric of justice as understood outside of law, particularly in the media, and legal practice. Despite evidence that miscarriages of justice must be a normal and expected consequence of imperfect arrangements for investigations, prosecutions, and trials, they are ordinarily...

... and their assistants between 1881 and 1980, this chapter places government-appointed qazis at the nexus between state law and everyday legal life to examine how Islamic legal practice and the expanded reach of the colonial legal system came together in the qazi’s marriage registers. The chapter examines how qazis were...

...The conclusion summarizes developments in Islamic legal practice since the middle of the twentieth century by looking at how new media (e.g., radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television channels) and older documentary forms (e.g., the marriage contract) have continued to shape discussions...

... and the Twelver Shīʿī (Imāmī) school and discusses the scriptural foundations, underlying assumptions, and legal logic underpinning these rules. The chapter further juxtaposes these formal rules with the legal practice of a range of Muslim societies to demonstrate how Muslims throughout history have employed...

... Ibañez; forms of legal practice; the relation between legal institutions and the ordinary social actors for whom law is the primary means through which they enter—and resist—the “modernist sublime”; and the making of a legal universe. Refraction theory of social Actuarios Corte Superior de Distrito...

... Panton William WS Pringle Margaret Pringle Thomas WS Syme Robert WS lord clerk register Faculty of Advocates Legal practice litigation patronage Session Papers Legal education Leaders of the bar Lawyer and client What is an advocate? He is a good man, learned in the law, who, having been...