This thesis dealt with the constitutionality of the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 2003 (Act 42 of 2003), pertaining to the leave requirement and petition procedures in respect of appeals against conviction, sentence or orders of the lower courts.

Settlement of International Investment Disputes The purpose of my thesis is to introduce the basic types of settlement of international investment disputes while focusing especially on arbitration proceedings conducted by tribunals of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, hereinafter referred to as ICSID. The main purpose of the thesis in this respect is to critically evaluate the situation that currently exists in international investment arbitration due to the absence of an appellate review mechanism in ICSID system and to suggest solutions to this problem. The evaluation includes both a description of current possibilities of review and a proposal of an appellate body along with alternatives thereto. The thesis is composed of three chapters. The first chapter is introductory and concerns the basic terminology of international investment law. It focuses on defining the terms investment and investor, i.e. terms that are essential for comprehension of the nature of international investment disputes. It defines the terms using mainly the ICSID case law. The second chapter deals with the individual methods of settlement of investment disputes. First it mentions diplomatic protection as a method used especially in past. It also mentions conciliation proceedings and describes the role...

Various problems which relate to the obligation of assertion and obligation of evidence and corresponding burden of assertion and burden of evidence and activity of a court connected with them are the topic of my diploma thesis. The first part concentrates on the definitions of basic terms, which appear in the field of evidence, for example the evidence as a complex process, the subject of evidence, means of evidence and also key terms as burden of assertion and burden of evidence. The next part of the thesis is focused on the description of the institute, which was introduced to the legal system in 2009 and the aim of which is to make civil procedure faster and more effective. This institute is the concentration of the procedure, principle of which is to bring about the state of termination of facts and evidence, which means that parties of the civil procedure are allowed to present facts important for the decision of the court and evidence connected with them only until a certain moment, if they present them later, they will not be relevant for the court. In the present, the parties are obligated to fulfill these obligations until the end of the preliminary procedure happens, respectively until the end of the first procedure in front of the court happens or when the parties are given an additional...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-170).

This thesis dealt with the constitutionality of the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 2003 (Act 42 of 2003), pertaining to the leave requirement and petition procedures in respect of appeals against conviction, sentence or orders of the lower courts.

Thèse Droit, Fribourg (Suisse), 1970.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science, June 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiẗat Göttingen, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-179). Also available online.

Thesis--University of Minnesota, 1966. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 465-499).