Suite à une consultation publique, la ministre de la Justice Anne McLellan a voulu répondre aux groupes et aux citoyens en intégrant, dans le projet de loi omnibus C-17, des amendements visant le droit criminel quant à la cruauté envers les animaux. Le projet de loi étant devenu caduc aux dernières élections fédérales, ces nouvelles dispositions étaient reprises par le projet de loi C-15 qui a lui-même été prorogé à la fin de la première session de la 37 législature. Les modifications qu'il proposait sont intégralement reprises par le projet de loi C-IO, déposé en octobre 2002. Les membres du Sénat renvoyaient récemment ce dernier devant le Comité permanent des affaires juridiques et constitutionnelles, chargé de le scinder en deux afin qu'un nouveau projet de loi, le ClOB, soit bientôt déposé et porte exclusivement sur la cruauté envers les animaux. Devant l'imminence de telles modifications, il est intéressant de se questionner autant sur leur contexte que sur leur portée. Dans une première partie, nous présentons quelques éléments du contexte philosophique et sociétal justifiant l'intérêt grandissant pour la question animale. L'émergence de nouvelles théories morales accordant plus de valeur à l'animal, les critiques et revendications des groupes de pression et des citoyens en général, ainsi que les récentes études démontrant un lien entre la cruauté envers les animaux et la violence dirigée contre l'homme, exigent une remise en question des rapports homme/animal. Une révision de ces différents facteurs contextuels permet de mieux comprendre à quoi répondent ces projets de loi. Dans une deuxième partie, nous relevons plusieurs incohérences du droit actuel afin d'identifier ce qui devrait être modifié par le législateur. Les incohérences sont à plusieurs niveaux: cohabitation de lois visant à protéger l'animal défini comme un être sensible et de lois portant sur la gestion des animaux considérés comme de simples ressources utiles à l'homme; intégration d'infractions visant à protéger l'animal dans la section du Code criminel portant sur les biens; gravité relativement importante des crimes contre les animaux par comparaison à certaines infractions contre la personne; problèmes 11 liés au libellé des infractions particulières et distinctions quant au degré de protection des animaux en fonction de leur intérêt pour 1'homme. Ensuite, le droit proposé sera examiné pour vérifier s'il règlera ces problèmes. Retirées de la partie concernant les biens, les infractions porteront davantage sur la sensibilité de l'animal plutôt que vers son utilité pour l'homme. Au niveau des régimes de responsabilité, l'ambiguïté constitutionnelle entraînée par la présomption du paragraphe 446(3) C.cr. sera évacuée. Quant aux peines, le durcissement prévu risque de rendre les infractions démesurément sévères par comparaison à certains crimes contre la personne. Bien qu'actualisées, les infractions seront toujours nombreuses et anecdotiques. Finalement, les changements de nature strictement juridique sont surtout cosmétiques, alors que la valeur symbolique des projets de loi est, quant à elle, plus significative. En effet, si quelques considérations anthropocentriques sont à l'origine des projets de loi, une reconnaissance de la valeur intrinsèque de l'animal semble aussi les avoir inspirés. Malheureusement, le paradigme de l'animal proposé, encore plus que celui qui est actuellement reconnu, se concilie difficilement avec l'utilisation des animaux pour les fins égocentriques de l'homme

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Are we witnessing the emergence of queer community? To answer this question, I interviewed self-identified queer people living in Atlanta, Georgia. During one-on-one and relational interviews, 31 participants reflected on how they understand and live queer, as well as socialize with other queers. An intention of this study is to advance theory; as such, this analysis inspected tenets asserted by “first wave” theoreticians and activists of the 1980s and 1990s. To test theory, I attend to queer as fluid, non-normative and diverse. The participants viewed their queerness in sexuality, gender, and political terms congruent with a first-wave framework. On the whole, participants supported the emergence of queer community, yet offered a cautionary tale as to whether collective queer will be able to achieve its political goals. “Still here, still queer” extends theory in the direction of shared identity and code for conduct, essential dynamics of community.

Keeping a consistent coding style is an important part of having a maintainable code base. In times when software solutions become increasingly complicated this requirement is more important than ever. However, most commercially available coding productivity tools put a much bigger focus on refactoring and support of additional technologies than on maintaining consistent code style. We decided to remedy this situation by implementing a plugin-extensible toolset for Visual Studio focused on diagnosing and correcting code style violations in C# code bases. By completing our intent we created a tool that integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio and provides the user with effective and intuitive tools to improve the overall maintainability of their code base. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The aim of my thesis is to analyse the legislation regarding the residential lease and to compare the new Civil code regulation with the old Civil code regulation. Whereas some provisons of the old Civil code were completely replaced by the new legislation and some were practically left untouched. The thesis is composed of seven chapters and subchapters. The introductory part consists of the overview of the historical evolution of the residential lease and definition of fundamental terminology. The main part of the thesis concentrates on describing the residential lease and changes of the relating legislation. The last part concentrates on interesting court rulings. The first chapter presents the overview of the changes in the residential lease legislation, from the 19th century to the present day and is divided into three broad historical periods. The second chapter comprises the main definitions including definiton of the residential lease, definitiv of a flat, cooperative housing flat, sublease and other types of flats. The third chapter mentions various ways of establishing the residential lease and mainly concentrates on lease contract, which is the most common reason for establishing the residential lease. The fourth chapter summarizes the changes in the regulation of rights and obligations of...

The aim of my thesis was to describe the legislation regarding the lease of an apartment, as it is included in the Act No.89/2012 Coll., the civil code. The new civil code brought a lot of changes into the Czech legal system. The changes affected lease of an apartment as well. In my thesis I also adress the legislation of recent past, as it is vital to compare it to the new one. Thesis itself is divided into seven chapters and they are divided into subchapters. In each charter I will describe the new legislation with occasional remark to the recent one. In chapter one I describe the development of the legislation of the lease of an apartment, from the roman era, through middleages, modern codes of law, all the way to current state. The second chapter is focused on the definition of key legal institutes regarding lease of an apartment. It is crucial to define these institutes as they are vital for understanding of the whole legislation. In the third chapter I describe ways in which the lease of an apartment can come into existence. I mostly compare the old legislation with the new one. Chapter four is focused on rent and other payments related to the lease of an apartment. I describe how the rent is defined either in civil code or in other legal acts. In charter five I analyze the rights and...

Summary: I chose the topic of my master's thesis considering the recency of the subject according to the recodification of private law. Legal institute of trust has been in Czech lands since 19th century and nowadays it experiences it's controversial return. Although the recent legal form of trust is defended by authors of the new Civil Code, experts criticise it roughly and there are ongoing negotiations about abrogation of the legal institute or about its amendment. This thesis is composed of ten thematic chapters. After the introduction I explain the origin of the legal institute of trust in Roman law, specifically in the form of fideikomis and its development. As the legal form results from The Civil Code of Québec highly influenced by the legal institute of trust, I focus on the legal institute of trust in common-law countries in the third chapter. I also dedicate one chapter to The Civil Code of Québec, as it was the main source of inspiration for Czech legislators. For a period of absence of the legal regulation of the trust in Czech law, according to the Hague Convention it was possible to create foreign trusts on the territory of the Czech Republic. For that reason I discuss the legal regulation of trusts abroad in chapter five. Sixth and seventh chapter is dedicated to the regulation of trust in...

The diploma thesis examines the effective legislation governing the bank account (or "accout"), which undergone some changes due to the recodification of the Czech private law. In addition to the actual examination of the accout legislation, it aims to highlight the most important changes adopted in connection with entering of the new Czech Civil Code into force and draw attention to the legal provisions, in respect of which some differing opinions regarding their interpretation could be met. The methods of systematic analysis and comparation were used. The first chapter sets out the relevant legislation, a new systhematics of accounts used by the laws and also the transitional provisions. Furthermore, the definition of the term "bank account" and some related issues are contained. The following chapter deals with the general provisions on account, namely account agreement, disposition with the account, disposing of the funds in the account, account management, crediting of interest and finally the consequences of the death of the account holder and termination of contractual obligations from the account agreement. At the end of the chapter differences for the accout set up for more than one person are summarized. The next chapter deals with the Payment account and respective legislation contained...

Title: Leave Legislation in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland Author: Iveta Niemiec Abstract: There are three neighbouring states in the spotlight of this thesis: Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. Approach of the annual leave legislation in those countries and mutual comparison could be defined as a main goal. Adumbration of annual leave as a significant part of labour law legislation and its purpose definition, which consists mainly in creating space for recovery and longer rest, is followed by short excursion into the history of legislation development. In this regard the year 1918 is found to be a breakthrough, which opened up the possibility of own legislation in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Getting closer to the leave legislation of particular states is preparation for a comparison of particular institutes and sub-institutes of leave of each labour code. Subsequenlty stated judicature provides an overview of application of legal rules related to the leave. Investigation is concluded by impact of the EU legislation on the particular institutes of the leave. The thesis is finalized by adumbration of inspirational parts of slovak and polish leave legislation. Key words: labour code, leave, recovery, leave entitlement, comparison, inspiration