- Special court proceedings (general issues) The diploma thesis is focused on the topic special court proceedings. Special court proceedings are a subject, representing one kind of the civil proceedings that is characterized by disposing peculiarities from the general regulations of the civil dispute proceedings. Special court proceedings are governed mainly by the Act No. 292/2013 Coll., on special court proceedings. This act contains the exceptions from the general proceedings regulations and enumeration of the specific special proceedings and its regulation. Also Act No. 99/1963 Coll., civil procedure code is subsidiary used. This thesis aims to give a comprehensive explanation of the subject of special court proceedings by consistent definition of the subject itself based on use of the several ways of distinguishing it from the civil dispute proceedings. The next target of the thesis is to evaluate the historical development of the mentioned subject and to compare contemporary legislation with the laws applicable during the era of the first republic. Last but not least the thesis contains the analysis of the current legislative, especially the act on special court proceedings, which content and formal aspect of elaboration is assessed. The description of the special court proceedings itself...

Little is known about intimate partner abuse (IPA) in divorcing Hispanic parents and how divorcing Hispanic parents utilize legal, social, or community services in regards to their experience of IPA. Research has identified many barriers for Hispanics attempting to access these services, including lack of knowledge of laws and services, lack of access, discrimination, and language barriers. This study aimed to understand the underlying dyadic structures of IPA and how such abuse affects the utilization of civil court processes in addition to social, community, and health services. Data sources included records from the civil court and mediation services, self-reports of intimate partner abuse, and law enforcement records. This paper focused on a subsample from a larger study and included 187 Hispanic couples and 467 non-Hispanic White couples. Results revealed differences between groups in terms of coercive controlling behaviors and their relationship with other forms of IPA. The strength of the relationship between coercive controlling behaviors and IPA victimization was equal for Hispanic husbands and wives, and also equal to White husbands' IPA perpetration, but had a weaker relationship between White wives' IPA perpetration. Overall Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White couples had similar interactions with the civil court system, ranging from time to complete the divorce and interactions with the court after divorce. Within the Hispanic group, couples with at least one partner preferring Spanish were significantly less likely to complete the divorce process, and had fewer contacts with the court after the divorce was finalized. Hispanic couples who were identified as experiencing IPA were significantly less likely to utilize certain helping services, but not others. Possible explanations, limitations, and future directions are explored.

The purpose of this qualitative sociological law study is to examine the relationship between the social services and civil court to apprehend if knowledge about the child's best interest is transfered from social workers to the legal system. This have been done by investigating civil court cases concerning custody transition from biological parents to foster parents according to 6 chapter 8 paragraph in the law of parenting, built upon the legal principle of the best interests of the child. Eight cases has been examined by using a method of qualitative text analysis and categorised into five primary categories and three concepts linked to sections of the law. The material has been analysed through a sociological law perspective, social constructionist theory and attachment theory. The study shows that a variety of factors interacts when it comes to determining what’s in the best interest of the child . Moreover, the civil court refers in all eight cases to social services assessments of the child's situation. This suggests that social services have an informal power position when it comes to decisions on custody transition in accordance with the child's best interests.

Le mécanisme de solidarité traverse le droit fiscal. D’essence civile, la solidarité est intimement liée aux moyens de recouvrement dont dispose l’administration. S’agissant du dirigeant de société, sa « responsabilité pécuniaire » ou « solidarité patrimoniale » est actuellement suspendue à la décision du juge. Or, deux textes prévoient la solidarité du dirigeant selon qu’il s’agisse du juge de la responsabilité (LPF, art. L. 267) ou du juge répressif (CGI, art. 1745). Si ces deux dispositions sont indépendantes l’une de l’autre au motif qu’elles n’ont ni la même cause, ni le même objet, ni le même demandeur, il y a lieu de s’interroger sur leur portée respective, souligner leurs écueils et présenter les voies d’une réforme de la solidarité du dirigeant au passif fiscal. Il s’agit à la fois à rendre davantage efficace l’action en recouvrement de l’administration et garantir les droits dont dispose le dirigeant. La prégnance de la situation actuelle impose le pragmatisme : recouvrer le passif fiscal formé essentiellement par la TVA et suspendre la solidarité à l’intentionnalité des manquements à l’origine du passif fiscal dès la procédure d’assiette. / Joint liability is a recurrent feature of tax law. It is essentially a civil law mechanism which is closely bound to the means of recovery available to the revenue authorities. With respect to the company director, his “financial liability” or “joint pecuniary liability” currently depends on a court ruling. Two items of legislation provide for the director’s liability according to whether the matter is being heard before the civil courts (Article L. 267 of the LPF tax code) or the criminal courts (Article 1745 of the CGI tax code).Although those two provisions are independent from one another since they have neither the same legal basis, nor the same purpose and the person bringing the action is different, it is appropriate to question their respective scope, underline their pitfalls and present avenues for reform of the corporate manager’s joint liability for tax liabilities.The aim is both to make the revenue authority’s action for recovery more effective and to secure the corporate manager’s rights. The current situation requires pragmatism, for recovering tax liabilities resulting primarily from VAT and for suspending joint liability for intentionally causing tax liabilities from the time of the procedure of the determination of the tax base.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:21:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 10 / Nenhuma / As reflexões alinhadas no presente trabalho poderiam ser resumidas na seguinte pergunta: o que a teoria do Direito de Ronald Dworkin, filtrada pela Crítica Hermenêutica do Direitode Lenio Streck, tem a dizer sobre o processo jurisdicional (civil) que se pratica no Brasil? Dworkin desenvolveu a noção, por todos conhecida, de que há, nos quadros de um Direito democraticamente produzido, uma “única resposta correta” (the one right answer) para cada um dos casos que o interpelam. Movia-lhe,desde o início, o propósito de identificar os direitos (principalmente, os individuais) que as pessoas realmente têm num ambiente democrático, e o entendimento de que o “tribunal” deveria torná-los, o quanto possível, acessíveis aos seus titulares. Agora, dezenas de anos depois, e no Brasil, vem Lenio Luiz Streck e afirma serem não só possíveis, mas também necessárias as tais “respostas corretas” em Direito. Esta pesquisa propõe-se a compreender melhor estas mensagens (tanto a de Dworkin como a de Streck) e a, com elas, conduzir uma reflexão sobre o processo jurisdicional brasileiro, que deverá ser redefinido a partir da necessidade de proporcionar a produção das tais “respostas corretas” em Direito. Trabalhar com “respostas corretas em Direito” implica reconhecer o acentuado grau de autonomia por este atingido, desde a assunção de um perfil não-autoritário (neoconstitucionalismo). Implica, portanto, entre outras coisas, reconhecer que o Direito é (bem) mais do que aquilo que os juízes dizem que ele é. As boas respostas são do Direito, compreendido como integridade, e não do juiz, individualmente considerado. De modo que uma compreensão hermenêutica do processo civil brasileiro, comprometida com estas noções todas, deverá dar conta de quebrar o “dogma” do protagonismo judicial (movimento de expansão dos poderes e liberdades do juiz na condução e solução das causas que chegam ao “tribunal”). Levar o Direito a sério, pois, é dissolver, no paradigma hermenêutico, a subjetividade do julgador em meio à intersubjetividade que é própria de um Estado Democrático. No âmbito do processo, levar o Direito a sério determina o compartilhamento decisório entre os sujeitos processuais, que deverão argumentar em favor de direitos, e em prol da construção da teoria que melhor justifique, principiologicamente, o Direito como um todo. O mínimo que se exige para que esse ideal seja atingido é a garantia de que o procedimento seja desenvolvido em efetivo contraditório, de modo que os argumentos das partes sejam decisivos para a construção da decisão judicial (o que se verificará, substantivamente, desde a exigência de uma fundamentação “completa” do provimento jurisdicional, que abranja não só os argumentos vencedores, mas também as razões pelas quais foram rejeitados os argumentos em sentido contrário). Por fim, o ato sentencial, para que reflita uma “resposta correta”, deverá espelhar um entendimento compartilhado não só entre os sujeitos processuais, mas também com os juízes do passado (história jurídico institucional exitosa). / The reflections aligned in this work could be summarized in the following question: what does the Ronald Dwokin ́s theory of law, filtered by the Lenio Streck’s Hermeneutics Critical of Law, has to say about the (civil) court process which is practiced in Brazil? Dworkin has developed the concept, known by all, that there is, at the tables of a democratically constituted law, a “single correct answer” (the one right answer) for each one of the cases that reaches the forum. He was moved, from the beginning, by the purpose of identifying the rights (especially, the individual ones) that people really have at a democratic environment, and the understanding that the “court” should make these rights, as much as possible, accessible to their holders. Now, after dozens of years, in Brazil, comes Lenio Luiz Streck and says that those “right answers” are not only possible, but also necessary in Law. This research aims to better understand these messages (both Dworkin’s and Streck’s) and, with them, lead a discussion about the brazilian judicial process, which should be redefined from the need to provide the production of such “right answers” in Law. Working with “right answers in Law” means to recognize the strong degree of autonomy that Law has achieved, since the assumption of a non-authoritarian profile (neoconstitucionalism). Therefore, it implies, amongst other things, that Law is (far) more than what judges say it is. Good answers are the ones given by the Law, understood as integrity, not by the judge, individually considered. So that a hermeneutic understanding of Brazilian procedural law, committed to all these concepts, should be able to break the “dogma” of the judicial protagonism (movement that expands the powers and freedoms of the judge in the conduction and settlement of cases that come to the “court”). Therefore, in the hermeneutic paradigm, to take Law seriously is to dissolve the subjectivity of judging in the intersubjectivity that characterizes the Democratic State. In the midst of the process, taking Law seriously implies sharing the decision between the procedural actors, which should argue in favor of rights, and for the construction of the theory that best justifies, by principles, Law as a whole. The minimum that is required for this ideal to be achieved is to guarantee the procedure to be developed in effective contradictory, so that the parties' arguments are decisivefor the construction of the court’s decision (which should be confirmed, substantively, from the requirement of a “complete” reasoning of the judicial decision, covering not only the winning arguments, but also the reasons why the arguments in the opposite direction were rejected). At last, the final decision, in order to reflect a “correct answer”, should mirror a shared understanding amongst not only the procedural actors, but also between them and the judges from the past (successful juridical and institutional history).

The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 provides an elaborate dispute resolution system which seeks to resolve disputes in a speedy and cost-effective manner. However, this system is faced with a number of challenges. The application of common law and administrative law causes tension between the Labour Court and civil courts. It creates uncertainty in the development of our labour law jurisprudence and also leads to the problem of forum shopping. These problems in effect undermine the objectives of the Act. This dissertation analyzes problems in the LRA and other legislations leading to forum shopping. It also analyses the view of the courts on this problem and further expounds a number of possible solutions. The analysis revolves mainly around an observation of South African literature and case law. / Mercantile Law / LL.M.

The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 provides an elaborate dispute resolution system which seeks to resolve disputes in a speedy and cost-effective manner. However, this system is faced with a number of challenges. The application of common law and administrative law causes tension between the Labour Court and civil courts. It creates uncertainty in the development of our labour law jurisprudence and also leads to the problem of forum shopping. These problems in effect undermine the objectives of the Act. This dissertation analyzes problems in the LRA and other legislations leading to forum shopping. It also analyses the view of the courts on this problem and further expounds a number of possible solutions. The analysis revolves mainly around an observation of South African literature and case law. / Mercantile Law / LL.M.