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The court decisions on child's custody - summary The upbringing of children is one of the basic institutes of parenthood. As every legal institute even this one can be approached from different perspectives of legal regulation. This thesis is focused on aspects and consequences of court proceedings and decisions on the child's custody issues in relation with the divorce or separation of parents - as regulated in Sections 26 and 50 of the Act no. 94/1963 Coll., Family Act, as amended. I have chosen this particular topic for personal reasones. From the formal point of view, the thesis is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter, sources of the law and main terms are defined. Furthermore, the current legal regulation of the court's decision on the child's custody is compared to the legal framework, which is yet to come into effect, and in a more details the judicial application of the regulation is analyzed considering the legal and factual relations with the divorce and the parents separation. The second chapter and the third chapter are focused on the outline of the substantive law - the second chapter on the current legal framework, the third chapter on the rules set down in the new civil code. The fourth chapter contains the overview of the procedural regulations and institutions. The fifth chapter...

In Sweden the decisions that are made regarding young people who are to be prepared care are made after the law with special provisions on the care of young people (LVU) (SFS 1990:52). The aim of this study was to investigate how the court, in its grounds of law with special provisions on the care of young people, produces gender norms. The essays method was based on a qualitative content analysis and a social construction approach to highlight the grounds for reflecting their assessments in LVU cases. The purpose of the study was not to give a definitive picture of how the grounds are designed, but merely to illustrate the process of vulnerable young people in society. The study was based on 84 LVU cases including paragraph 2 and 3, which had a fall off with 19 cases. In analysis of our results, we applied previous research on the subject which contained norms´ impact on social work, youths constructed behavior out of a gender perspective, the complex going on behind the human surface and the impact of abuse in young people. We have also analyzed our results from theoretic perspectives as gender norms, parts of the socialization theory and how norms take part in the society. To illustrate how the court may have judge the young people from the genders norms in Sweden which describes how boys and girls should behave. This study found out that the differences in how the court judged boys and girls were minimal but in some cases of paragraph 3 the differences were easier to find than in paragraph 2. The most common in the results was that there were larger differences between girls and girls, boys and boys than between girls and boys. The study also showed that boys and girls that has the same social problems are assessed under different evidence. This caused that the law is therefore not used as the propositions referenced that they should have been used. This study has therefore attempt to highlight the importance of that young people that are in an exposed situation should have the same possibilities to get the help they need. The court should not rely on gender constructions in cases of the law with special provisions on the care of young people.

This study in comparative public law analyses if the courts have decided in the best interest of the child when judging for immediate care due to domestic violence. Both Sweden and Norway have transformed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) article 3 in parts of their national legislation. The difference between the countries is that Norway in 2003 incorporated CRC as a part of their legal policy, Sweden, on the other hand, has not integrated CRC in their national laws. There is a need for research if and how the local authorities and the courts in the two countries live up to the concept for the best interest of the child. Six court decisions from both countries as well as the development of the national legislation will be analyzed. To achieve our purpose, we will use the comparative and dogmatic legal method. The comparative method will be used when we compare the similarities and differences between their national legal system and the court's judgment for immediate care for the best interest of the child. The dogmatic legal method will be used for defining the current law. The results of this study indicate that Norway has more appropriate laws for the best interest of the child. The difference between the countries is that in Norway the court can decide based on their child specific law. While the courts in Sweden only can decide for the best interest of the child with the interpretation based on the two laws but the code is not just for the child. Despite the differences, both Sweden and Norway have appropriate laws for how the local authorities and the court should promote the best interest of the child. In the future, we hope that it would be easier for the Swedish courts to apply the best interest of the child when CRC has been incorporated into the national legislation.

Baigiamajame darbe analizuojamos Teismo nagrinėtų ginčų dėl kontinentinio šelfo delimitavimo priimtų sprendimų nuostatos, kuriose išaiškintos pagrindinės delimitavimo taisyklės. Kadangi 1958 m. Konvencija dėl kontinentinio šelfo bei 1982 m. Jūrų teisės konvencija numato tik abstrakčius kontinentinio šelfo delimitavimo principus, teismo sprendimuose pateikiamas šių principų turinys. Darbe analizuojama, kurios teisės normos yra reikšmingiausios delimituojant kontinentinį šelfą, akcentuojami jų nustatymo kriterijai, reikšmingos aplinkybės bei šių normų taikymo ypatumai. Antroje darbo dalyje nustatytos taisyklės taikomos konkrečios srities – Egėjo jūros kontinentinio šelfo delimitavimui, siekiant išsiaiškinti, kokie sunkumai kyla praktiškai įgyvendinant Teismo sprendimuose išaiškintas normas. Atsižvelgiant į iškeltą tikslą bei uždavinius, nustatyta, kad Teismas sprendimuose apibrėžė pagrindines teisės normas, reglamentuojančias kontinentinio šelfo delimitavimą. Tačiau dėl skirtingų faktinių aplinkybių, dažnai pasitaiko jų taikymo išimčių. Teismo sprendimuose pasigesta detalesnių kriterijų, kurias remiantis būtų nustatoma salų įtaka kontinentinio šelfo delimitavimui, kriterijų, kuriais vadovaujantis būtų išskiriamos pagrindinių delimitavimo taisyklių išimtys. Dėl to kyla sunkumų, kai šias teisės normas reikia pritaikyti konkrečiai situacijai. Tikėtina, kad visus šiuos neaiškumus užpildys vėlesnė Teismo praktika. / This thesis investigates provisions of Court-analysed disputes regarding continental shelf delimitation made decisions, where the main rules of delimitation are being explained. As main international conventions - 1958 Convention on the Continental Shelf and 1982 Law of the Sea Convention - cover general principles of continental shelf delimitations only, the court decisions are accompanied with the content of these principles. This work analyses which rules of law are the most important when delimitating continental shelf, emphasising criteria used to establish them, influential circumstances and peculiarities of their application. In the second part of the thesis the rules identified are being applied to a particular case of continental shelf delimitation in the Aegean Sea, aiming to determine potential problems that may arise trying to apply the court-specified rules of law in practice. With reference to the set objective and tasks it was established that the Court in its decisions has defined legal standards regulating the delimitation of the continental shelf. However, due to different factual circumstances, exceptions with regard to application thereof are rather frequent. The Court decisions were found to be lacking more detailed criteria which would serve as a basis for the determination of islands’ influence on the delimitation of the continental shelf, as well as criteria which would help to identify the exceptions to the main delimitation rules. Therefore... [to full text]

"Public opinion finds its way into the justice system and finally to the decision making platform of the courts through various channels. These include public opinion polls, legislative debates, writings of jurists, social pressures, political situations and referendum on legal issues. Regarding the death penalty, the role of public opinion becomes more debatable because as Kakooza explains, there is a difficulty of addressing death penalty issues as values, national aspirations and conditions of social intercourse vary from society to society. The death penalty touches life, which is the most important of all human rights. It, therefore, remains debatable as to whether it is the courts or the people that may decide the legality of criminal sanctions like the death penalty. Protection of judicial independence conflicts with the need for legitimacy, given that courts are occupied by un-elected judges. While sticking to legalistic and official positions, courts must keep in touch with the public since they need the latter's approval for decisions to be respected and implemented. It is also not clear whether, and if so, to what extent, courts may rely upon public opinion in making decisions, thus the importance of assessing the role it sould play and coming out with a way forward. ... Chapter one comprises the background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, aims and objectives of the study, literature review, methodology and limitations of the study. Chapter two is a discussion of the role public opinion ought to play in court decisions in general, and decisions on the legality of the death penatly in particular. Chapter three is an analysis of the actual influence of public opinion on court decisions on the legality of the death penalty. It also has a comparison of court practice in Uganda and South Africa and includes a critique. Chapter four is a presentation of arguments for and against the role of pulic opinion in court decisions. Chapter five contains conclusions from the research findings and recommendations on how public opinion should be treated in court decisions generally, and the legality of the death penalty in particular." -- Introduction. / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006. / Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Raymond A. Atuguba at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

Tese (doutorado)-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2010. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-11-28T17:00:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 francisco jos soller de mattos.pdf: 1304112 bytes, checksum: 6d1a2cf1b6296e991f0bdc1e161fefdc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-11-28T17:00:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 francisco jos soller de mattos.pdf: 1304112 bytes, checksum: 6d1a2cf1b6296e991f0bdc1e161fefdc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / A presente pesquisa trata da análise das decisões do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (TJ/RS) proferidas nas ações indenizatórias por dano ambiental, nos primeiros dez anos de vigência da Lei nº 9795/99, para o fim de responder se estas recepcionaram a proposta pedagógica contida na PNEA, enquanto processo de sensibilização para um novo comportamento individual e coletivo marcado pelo interesse de defesa da qualidade ambiental. Para tanto, delimitou-se os marcos teóricos referentes à reparação do dano ambiental, na condição de tutela social diferenciada e, ainda, formulou-se um conceito operacional de Educação Ambiental, produzido a partir das categorias extraídas do texto legislativo que consolida a PNEA. Com apoio nesse conceito operacional, que identificou o processo como categoria fundamental da PNEA, se examinou todos os acórdãos do TJRGS, proferidos nas ações indenizatórias por dano ambiental, no primeiro decênio de vigência da Lei n° 9.795, de 27 de abril de 1999. A análise contemplou as seguintes etapas: a) O exame da totalidade dos acórdãos coletados; b) A extração de blocos temáticos com indicações ou referencias (diretas ou indiretas) da função pedagógica; c) A análise dos blocos temáticos com base nas categorias deduzidas à priori do conceito operacional da EA. Após o cruzamento do conteúdo dos blocos temáticos com as características dos processos educativos em EA, deduzidas a partir do conceito operacional, constatou-se a não recepção adequada da dimensão pedagógica preconizada pela PNEA. E, ainda, que apenas quatro acórdãos, num universo de quarenta, fizeram remissões vagas à “função pedagógica”, sem qualquer comprometimento de articular a práxis da Educação Ambiental como processo, conforme determina a Lei nº 9.795/99. Ao final, foram expostos alguns motivos da precariedade da função pedagógica dos acórdãos analisados e, também, apresentadas propostas para garantir plena vigência aos comandos da PNEA. / This study examined the decisions of the Court of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (TJ/RS) made in indemnity actions for environmental damage within the first ten years of Law No. 9795/99. Such an analysis was carried out for the purpose of answering whether they approached or not the pedagogical proposal contained in PNEA, as a process of awareness of a new individual and collective behavior marked by concern for the defense of environmental quality. To this end, the theoretical frameworks relating to compensation for environmental damage, provided differentiated guardianship, were set out, and an operational concept of Environmental Education (EE), produced based on the categories extracted from the legislative text that reinforces the PNEA, was drawn up. Grounded on this operational concept, which identifies the process as a fundamental category of PNEA, all the rulings of TJRGS were studied as to indemnity actions made for environmental damage within the first decade of application of Law No. 9795 of April 27, 1999. The analysis included the following steps: (a) examination of all judgments collected; (b) extraction of thematic groups with information or references (direct or indirect) of educational role; (c) analysis of thematic groups based on categories taken from the operational concept of EE. After matching the content of the thematic groups with the characteristics of educational processes in EE, deducted from the operational concept, it was found not to approach an adequate pedagogical dimension as recommended by PNEA. Only four judgments out of forty made vague references to “educational role” with no commitment to articulate the praxis of EE as a process, as determined by Law No. 9.795/99. Finally, some reasons were mentioned with regard to the precariousness of the educational role of the judgments analyzed, and proposals to ensure full observance of the commands of PNEA were given.

Thesis (LLM)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / Some digitised pages may appear illegible due to the condition of the original hard copy / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a response to the judgment of the Constitutional Court in South African Personal Injury Lawyers v Heath, in which certain provisions of the Special Investigating Units and Special Tribunals Act were subjected to constitutional review. The outcome of the case was the striking down of certain provisions of the Act as unconstitutional, and the removal of Judge Willem Heath from his position as head of the Unit. The provisions were said to infringe upon the principle of separation of powers, an implicit term of the Constitution of South Africa. This principle affects the extent of the judicial power because of its influence on determining the acceptability of extra-judicial functions. The doctrine of separation of powers is therefore considered in its historical and theoretical context, with particular reference to the way in which it tends to limit or define the role of judges. Following this analysis, the status of institutions supporting constitutional democracy is examined, and the legislation governing Special Investigating Units is compared with that which regulates the office of the Public Protector. As a result, some alternative legislative means of achieving the ends of the Units, namely the combating of state corruption and maladministration, are suggested. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis volg op die uitspraak van die Grondwetlike Hof in South African Personal Injury Lawyers v Heath, waarin sekere bepalings van die Wet op Spesiale Ondersoekeenhede en Spesiale Tribunale aan grondwetlike hersiening onderwerp is. Die uitkoms van die saak was dat sekere ongrondwetlike bepalings van die Wet ongeldig verklaar is, en dat Regter Willem Heath van sy posisie as hoof van die Eenheid onthef is. Dit is bevind dat die bepalings die beginsel van skeiding van magte, 'n implisiete term van die Suid-Afrikaanse Grondwet, geskend het. As gevolg van sy invloed op die bepaling van aanvaarbaarheid van buite-juridiese funksies, beïnvloed dié beginsel die omvang van die juridiese mag. Die skeiding van magte leerstuk word dus in sy historiese en teoretiese konteks oorweeg, met spesifieke verwysing na die manier waarop dit neig om die rol van regters te beperk of te omskryf. Na hierdie analise word die status ondersoek van instellings wat grondwetlike demokrasie ondersteun, en die wetgewing wat die Spesiale Ondersoekeenhede beheer, vergelyk met dié wat die Openbare Beskermer reguleer. Op grond hiervan word sekere alternatiewe wetgewende metodes voorgestelom die doeleindes van die Eenhede, naamlik die bekamping van staatskorrupsie en wanadministrasie, te bereik.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:22:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Rahal Canado.pdf: 1344555 bytes, checksum: ce50353e26b3a9ff2505c55d9603a027 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-20 / The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the role of the judicial decisions for regulating paying taxes behavior, from the diagnosis of the fallibility of the positive law (statutes). The impossibility of the general and abstract rules, the distinctive characteristic of civil law, to instruct adequately the paying taxes behavior, conduct to judicial decisions the role of defining the existence of tax obligations (as typically occurs in common law systems). A critical analysis of the main characteristics of civil law allows demystify some perceptions that prevent this appreciation of the judicial decisions, especially that the statutes would be the primary source and the judicial decision has a secondary role. From the observation of the role of judicial decisions to ensure the Rule of Law for tax purposes, even in civil law countries, we propose a new concept of Regra-Matriz de Incidência Tributária the essential rule designed for paying taxes which takes into account not only the general and abstract rules from statutes but also those statements from judicial decisions. This perspective aims to propose a more precise standard for paying taxes behavior and, therefore, a more effective idea of Rule of Law for tax purposes. It is necessary to warn that it is not any judicial decision that is able to integrate the set of statements of the tax incidence rule (Regra-Matriz de Incidência Tributária). For the judicial decision to be able to collaborate to establish general standards of paying taxes behavior they must be final and the Courts must be committed to binding prior understandings, as it occurs in common law countries / O objetivo desta tese é demonstrar o papel da jurisprudência para regulação de condutas no direito tributário, a partir do diagnóstico de falibilidade do direito positivo. A impossibilidade de as normas gerais e abstratas, características do civil law, informarem de forma suficiente a conduta a ser seguida, desloca para as decisões judiciais (como tipicamente ocorre no sistema common law) o papel de delimitar a existência das obrigações tributárias. A análise crítica das principais características do civil law permite desmistificar algumas percepções que impedem essa valorização da decisão judicial, especialmente a de que a lei seria fonte primária, tendo a jurisprudência um papel secundário. A partir da constatação do papel fundamental das decisões judiciais para garantia da legalidade tributária, mesmo nos países de civil law, propomos uma nova concepção de Regra-Matriz de Incidência Tributária, que leva em consideração não só os enunciados prescritivos das normas gerais e abstratas, mas também aqueles presentes na jurisprudência. Essa perspectiva tem o objetivo de propor uma norma de conduta mais precisa e, com isso, uma ideia de legalidade tributária mais efetiva. É necessário alertar que não é qualquer decisão judicial que está apta a integrar-se aos enunciados de normas gerais e abstratas. Para que a jurisprudência seja capaz de colaborar na delimitação de normas gerais de conduta tem de ser ela colhida de tribunais superiores e deve haver comprometimento de vinculação de entendimentos anteriores ao julgamento de casos posteriores, assim como ocorre nos países de common law

This thesis explores how the Swedish legal system, specifically the police and district courts, understand and construct cases of human trafficking for sexual purposes and procuring with under-age victims. It draws on police investigative interviews and court decisions in 22 pronounced district court sentences, involving 36 female youths. Theoretically the thesis primarily builds on social constructionism and the sociology of childhood. Methodologically it builds on coding of forensic interviews, narrative analysis and discourse analysis. Study I explores the informativeness of 24 of the 36 adolescents when interviewed by the police. It shows that the adolescents were informative yet evasive, specifically when asked open questions. Experiences of violence and force as well as interviews conducted soon after the police intervention further contributed to evasiveness. Also evasiveness seemed intimately connected to circumstances in each unique case. Study II scrutinises the image of the ideal trafficking victim by asking how the issue of responsibility is handled when police interviews turn to prostitution. It also analyses which interactive and narrative conditions, related to agency and stake, apply for talk in this specific institutional setting. The findings suggest that in order to sort out the ‘real’ victims, the interrogator needs to pull apart the two categories ‘victim’ and ‘prostitute’ even if there may be problems with this clear-cut distinction since the categories tend to blend together. Further, in this institutional setting to talk about sex can be problematic as it may undermine the victim narrative instead creating a subject with interests. Study III explores how Swedish district courts assess the credibility of alleged victims of human trafficking for sexual purposes and the reliability of their testimonies. The findings indicate that the judges base their assessments on the Swedish Supreme Courts’ criteria of how to understand reliability and credibility but they seemed also to be influenced by extra-legal factors relating to victims’ behaviour. Further, the findings imply that the judges used the Supreme Court’s criteria to argue both for and against credibility. By so doing, their arguments supported the decision reached irrespective of how the adolescents reported or what impression they made. In brief this thesis can be said to point to a legal dilemma when law on paper is applied in practice as each unique adolescent must be recognized by the authorities as fitting the administrative category ‘victim’. When put into practice, categories are rarely neat and clear hence such categorizing becomes a phenomenon negotiated in interaction. Also, this legal context sets up limits and possibilities for the adolescents’ agency and this too can be said to have a bearing on if she is, or is not, constructed as a victim. In short, this thesis shows certain conditions of victimhood. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Submitted.</p><p>Forskningsfinansiär: Brottsoffermyndigheten genom Brottsofferfonden.</p> / Människohandel/koppleri med barn och unga för sexuella ändamål Vad går att lära av rättsväsendet och brottsoffrens erfarenheter?