Author: Lara Khoury Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 184731273X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 304
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'Proving' the cause of the plaintiff's injury in personal injury litigation often entails significant challenges, particularly when science cannot identify the cause of a biological phenomenon or when the nature of this cause is debatable. This problem is frequently encountered in medical malpractice cases, where the limitations of scientific knowledge are still extensive. Yet judges must decide cases, however uncertain the evidence with regard to proof of causation. Reluctant to leave patients without compensation, courts have in some cases challenged their traditional approach to causation through recourse to such techniques as reliance on factual presumptions and inferences, the concept of loss of chance, and reversal of the burden of proof. This book analyses and criticises the use of these various techniques by the courts of England, Australia, Canada, France, and the civilian Canadian province of Quebec in confronting evidentiary causal difficulties caused by the uncertainties of medical science.
Author: Marcel Fontaine Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047440226 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 665
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Drafting International Contracts is an essential resource for anyone working in international business. It features the latest trends, fostering an understanding of how international contracts are drafted in practice.
Author: Nico Moons Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351605615 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 248
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From the very first negotiations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights half a century ago to the present day, socio-economic rights have often been regarded as less enforceable than civil and political rights. The right to adequate housing, even though protecting one of the most basic needs of human beings, has not escaped this classification. Despite its strong foundations in international, regional and domestic legislation, many people are still deprived of one or more of the different key elements that comprise adequate housing. How, then, can international human rights theory and case law be developed into effective vehicles at the domestic level? Rather than focusing merely on possibilities for individualized relief through the court system, The Right to Housing in Law and Society looks into more effective socio-economic rights realization by addressing both conceptual and practical stumbling blocks that hinder a more structural progress at the national level. The Flemish and Belgian housing legislation and policy are used to highlight the problems and illustrate the pathways here presented. While first and foremost legal in its approach, the book also offers a more sociological perspective on the functioning of the right to housing in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers and students in the fields of international socio-economic rights law and human rights law more generally.
Author: Michael Joachim Bonell Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 616
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The UNIDROIT Principles represent a totally new approach to international trade law. They are the result of years of intensive study by leading experts in the field of contract and international trade law from all the major legal and socio-economic systems of the world. They consist of a Preamble and 119 articles divided into seven chapters (General Provisions; Formation; Validity; Interpretation; Content; Performance; and Non-Performance). The chapter on performance contains a special section on hardship, while the chapter on non-performance deals with such questions as the right to performance, termination, and damages. "An International Restatement of Contact Law" was the first commenatary on the UNIDROIT Principles to be published. It provides an insider's view into the origin, preparation, and basic ideas of the Principles. Moreover, it illustrates the various ways in which the UNIDROIT Principles may be used by the international community, such as legislators, judges, arbitrators, and lawyers. This second, enlarged edition includes four new chapters; two additional foreign language versions of the Principles; as well as 25 recent court decisions and arbitral awards mentioning the Principles.
Author: Paolo Bernasconi Publisher: Springer ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 352
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Contains thirteen national reports and the general report on Money Laundering and Banking Secrecy. The reports were written for the XIVth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law which was held in 1994 in Athens, Greece. As narcotics trafficking exploded in the 1980s, it was realized that money laundering had become a threat to the entire integrity of the financial system. The international trend to regard money laundering as a serious threat to the stability of democracy and the rule of law found expression in the adoption of the 1988 United Nations Drugs Convention. Gradually, the international community diverged from its traditional, narrow approach whereby only the laundering of drug proceeds was considered a threat. In order to combat money laundering efficiently, it soon became clear that criminal law was not sufficient and that it was necessary for banks and other financial institutions to co-operate with law enforcement agencies. The banking community is now obliged to report suspicious transactions, which they often regard as going beyond their role as bankers. The issue of bank secrecy has played an important role in the discussion between law enforcement agencies and the banking community. Both the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and the UN Drugs Convention require that bank secrecy should not be an obstacle to international co-operation. At the national level the seizure of bank records should not be hindered by bank secrecy.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Consolidation and merger of corporations Languages : en Pages : 618
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This volume contains the papers presented at the 34th conference, held in Toronto in June 1997 by the Canadian Tax Foundation. The contributions deal with the major tax issues connected with public transactions, interest and leasing, international finance and pitfalls in corporate finance.
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