The purpose of this thesis has been to analyze Court cases determined in a Swedish context which included the crime gross assault against a closely related victim. The purpose has also been to investigate the possibility of identifying differences in Court assessments in consideration of a gender perspective and to examine how female and male perpetrators are described and characterized by Courts. The study has had a qualitative orientation and assumed a constructionist and a socio-legal perspective. The data material, consisting of ten cases with male offenders and ten cases with female offenders, has been examined by using a thematic analysis approach, where the results have been related to Nils Christie`s ideal victim theory and to the concept of genus The results of the study showed that Courts were constant in their decisions regarding male offenders, while decisions concerning female offenders appeared to be more varied. All of the male offenders were sentenced to imprisonment, while Courts` choice of sanction regarding female offenders to a high degree consisted of different measures of care. The study claims that there is an indication of that violent male and female offenders are treated differently by Courts and, in accordance to this viewpoint, that criminal men are bad and criminal women are mad.

La déjudiciarisation des litiges est un sujet actuel et fondamental pour les pouvoirs publics au regard de l’engorgement des juridictions françaises. Il s’agit d’une préoccupation que partage l’assureur en responsabilité civile médicale pour lequel faciliter le règlement amiable des conflits signifie diminuer ses coûts de gestion internes, avoir une meilleure maîtrise des sommes allouées au titre la réparation des dommages résultant de soins et valoriser son image d’expert de l’indemnisation auprès de ses assurés. Aujourd’hui, le monde de l’assurance du risque médical s’engage publiquement en faveur de la recherche d’une solution négociée des litiges. Il présente cette dernière comme étant un mode opératoire bénéficiant à toute la société et particulièrement aux patients (ou à leurs ayants-droit), lesquels peuvent obtenir une indemnisation plus rapidement que devant les juridictions et en limitant leurs frais. Pour mettre en œuvre cette démarche, l’assureur se dote de processus internes afin d’optimiser les chances de succès des réclamations présentées dans un cadre amiable. Il s’appuie également sur l’action des pouvoirs publics, lesquels ont, notamment, créé les commissions (régionales) de conciliation et d’indemnisation des accidents médicaux, affections iatrogènes et infections nosocomiales, qui permettent de faciliter les solutions négociées aux litiges. Pour autant, force est de constater qu’il existe des limites à cette entreprise. En effet, outre le fait que la victime demeure la principale décisionnaire du choix du mode opératoire de l’examen de sa demande, d’autres acteurs directs et indirects voire le professionnel de l’assurance du risque médical lui-même, peuvent être à l’origine de la judiciarisation du différend. En tout état de cause, le recours aux juges ne doit pas être entendu uniquement comme un échec de la solution négociée dans la mesure où la jurisprudence peut se révéler être un atout pour faciliter la déjudiciarisation des litiges ultérieurs. / Solving disputes outside of the judicial system is a contemporary and a fundamental challenge for public authorities given the current congested workload of Courts. Medical liability insurers obviously share that concern. Indeed, facilitating amicable settlements is a way to decrease internal administration costs, to have better control over the damages awarded, and to enhance their image as Experts in their field. Nowadays, medical risk insurance companies are publicly committed to negotiated solutions. According to them, the out of Court approach can benefit the entire society and particularly the patients (or their beneficiaries), who can reach compensation more quickly than they would in front of a court, while limiting their fees. In order to implement this procedure, the insurance companies provide themselves with new internal processes, to optimize the chances of finding amicable settlements for the claims they receive. The success of this strategy also relies on the action of public authorities, whose decision to create the C(R)CI (Commissions of conciliation and compensation for medical accidents, iatrogenic disorders and nosocomial infections), has eased access to negotiated solutions.Nevertheless, this approach cannot always lead to a successfull outcome. As a matter of fact, the victims remain the last to decide on the way they want the litigation to be settled. Some other direct or indirect actors, or even the medical liability insurer itself, can bring the action before the Court. Either way, recourse to a Judge does not have to be only seen as a failure, since it allows jurisdictions to give orientations that will help parties position themselves in the event of further cases.

Notoriously, the French monarchy began to exchange judicial posts in its courts of law for cash to raise emergency funds in the early sixteenth century. The fact that all sorts of royal posts subsequently became venal or hereditary is a familiar aspect of ancien régime France, yet very little work exists on the genesis of this institution. This thesis traces the meanings, practices, and effects of 'venality' between 1490 and 1547. It does so by studying the relationship between the crown and the second most important law court of the kingdom, the Parlement of Toulouse. Traditional interpretations of office sale have tended to explain the phenomenon as a tale of royal hypocrisy, and have prioritised research on the Parlement of Paris. In contrast, this study argues that the study of a provincial court forces us to reconsider the chronology, techniques, and outcomes of early venality. A considerable amount of unexploited archival and printed material exists on office sale. By approaching it through the lens of legal culture, this thesis proposes an investigative model not only capable of explaining why venality emerged, but also why it was so vilified. Existing studies of office sale have tended to ignore legal talk and legislation as misleading or dissimulative. By paying particular attention to law and language, however, this study argues that the sale of judicial offices was a deeply ambiguous theme in the first half of the sixteenth-century that was open to constant interpretation. It was this very slipperiness that allowed a variety of actors to engage with it. Early office sale prolonged late medieval practices, but also heralded unprecedented changes, influencing the formation of the early-modern state. By studying the phenomenon, this thesis offers a rich and multifaceted picture of the relations and functioning of the crown and its tribunals.

Complementarity, the organizing principle of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is a largely untested concept in terms of its ability to instigate State compliance with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The ICC made its debut at a time when States were routinely accused of non-compliance with international law, particularly international criminal law. Due to perennial concerns over the protection of State sovereignty, an ingenious system of allocation of competencies between States and the ICC was evolved. This is embodied by the principle of complementarity. At the heart of complementarity is an arrangement by which States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC are regarded as the prime fora for the prosecution of crimes of grave concern to the international community. In the event of inaction, however, the ICC is mandated to wrest specific cases from the jurisdiction of national courts and try them. In effect, a carrot-and-stick mechanism has been built into the Rome Statute to induce States to comply with the Statute. This thesis examines the principle of complementarity from a theoretical perspective, bearing in mind contemporary international law structures and institutions. A better understanding of the theoretical assumptions of complementarity, it is suggested, will foster a more effective application of the tenets of the Rome Statute within the municipal system. The thesis argues that complementarity is a catalyst for implementation of the Rome Statute only to the extent to which it alters or re-defines well established and encumbering procedures and norms within the municipal system. In this regard, although South Africa’s status of constitutional democracy may be reason to expect that the obligations imposed by the Rome Statute will be observed, that very fact may increase the inclination to preserve the “baseline of conduct” rather than be swayed by the Rome Statute. An illustrative excursion into South African rules and norms is undertaken, after which the argument is advanced that not much change has been effected to the South African legal landscape through implementation of the Rome Statute. The sole exception to this is the issue of prosecutorial discretion. On this, the South African legislature has uniquely crafted a mechanism for ensuring accountability, presumably with a view to ensuring that South Africa is always able to prosecute the crimes concerned. However, the thesis cautions against complacency, arguing that the tension between national law and international obligations may yet play itself out, owing to insufficient attention to the role of national courts in giving effect to the Rome Statute. The act of implementation may be a response to stimuli such as the perceived need to avoid civil liability for international crimes, or the general inertia of implementing human rights instruments. Therefore, the carrot-and-stick mechanism may be lacking in the compulsive qualities it is presumed to have. Through an exploratory survey of South African law, the thesis illustrates that prosecutorial accountability is the major factor in determining whether a State has fully complied with is obligations under the Rome Statute. However, it also points out that the way courts of law apply the new norms in municipal systems in the future will be crucial.

[pt] A transformação global envolvendo todos os campos de interação humana, em meio a um contexto democrático da sociedade ocidental, vem provocando um aumento vertiginoso na demanda por justiça, um fenômeno nomeado de judicialização da vida. A resposta judicial deixou de ser pontual e passou a influir na produção de uma nova ordem subjetiva, na medida em que a instituição judiciária se tornou a última instância segura num mundo destituído de tradição. Neste estudo, nos propusemos a estudar os desdobramentos da vertente denominada judicialização dos conflitos familiares sobre os atores jurídicos. Quando a família se submete a uma intervenção judicial sua malha relacional é expandida e outros personagens passam a ocupar um lugar simbólico em seu universo. A dialética das relações humanas nos remete a idéia de que todos esses outros também sejam atravessados pelo litígio, na medida em que não deixam de ser sujeitos e, portanto, submetidos à mesma fluidez que seus jurisdicionados. Este trabalho investiga a percepção dos atores jurídicos frente à família contemporânea, frente ao direito e os sentimentos envolvidos na atividade profissional. O estudo de campo foi realizado com dez atores jurídicos, dentre as categorias de juiz, promotor, advogado, assistente social e psicólogo. Os resultados demonstraram referenciais conflitantes entre o tradicional e o contemporâneo, tanto relativo à família, quanto às leis. Seus sentimentos sobre o próprio trabalho ressaltaram esta ambiguidade, manifestada sob diversas formas, desde a angústia à plenitude de sentir-se útil. Nossa análise ressalta a delicada posição dos atores jurídicos, na medida em que deles se solicita sensibilidade, mas impõe-se imparcialidade e aponta a reflexão ética como direção a seguir. / [en] The global transformation involving all fields of human interaction in the midst of a democratic context of Western society, has led to a steep increase in demand for justice, a phenomenon named "legalization of life." The judicial response has ceased to be punctual and went on to influence the production of a new order subjective, in that the judicial institution has become the ultimate safe in a world devoid of tradition. In this study, we proposed to study the unfolding of the strand called legalization of family conflicts on the legal actors. When the family undergoes a judicial intervention is expanded its network relational and other characters come to occupy a symbolic place in his universe. The dialectics of human relationships leads us to the idea that all these others are also crossed by the dispute, to the extent that they are still subject and therefore subject to the same fluidity that their litigants. This study investigates the perception of legal actors facing the contemporary family, facing the law and the feelings involved in professional activities. The field study was conducted with ten legal actors, among the categories of judge, prosecutor, lawyer, social worker and psychologist. Results showed conflicting references between the traditional and contemporary, both relative to the family as to the law. His feelings about his own work showed this ambiguity, manifested in various forms, from anguish to the fullness of feeling useful. Our analysis highlights the delicate position of legal actors, in that their sensitivity is sought, but it must be impartial and ethical reflection points as a way forward.

The law of civil procedure is an important branch of South African law as it resolves individual civil disputes through a regulated judicial system. Mandatory statutes and rules regulate the processes when bringing disputes to court. For example, the Superior Courts Act 10 of 2013, regulates the superior courts, while the provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 32 of 1944, as well as the Small Claims Court Act 61 of 1984, control the lower courts. Further, a series of court rules ensure efficient operation of different courts and support the overarching legislation. For example, the Constitutional Court Rules, Rules Regulating the Conduct of the Proceedings of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Uniform Rules of Court, Magistrates’ Courts’ Rules, and the Rules of Small Claims Court support the implementation of legislation. The researcher submits, however, that the current legislative provisions, and their enabling rules, are not fully complementing the Electronic Communication and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 and are thereby impeding the growth of e-technology law in South Africa. Put differently, they do not embrace the use of e-technology and digital devices. It appears that in future civil proceedings will occur electronically through digital and e-technology devices. Present legislation does not cater for this practical reality. This calls for South African courts to, for example, install satellite devices that will ease the use of e- technology in civil proceedings. The researcher avers that there have been attempts by the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal to enable electronic communication through their websites, but this is insufficient to effectively implement the provisions of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 especially insofar as service of process. The courts have effectively moved away from the decision in Narlis v SA Bank of Athens, which excluded computer-generated evidence and there have been attempts by South African courts in recent decisions to appreciate the use of e-technology. For example, in CMC Woodworking Machinery v Odendaal Kitchens the court, for the first time, acknowledged service of court papers via Facebook. Further, in Spring Forest Trading v Wilbery, the Supreme Court of Appeal confirmed that electronic communication such e-mail, can be used to cancel agreements, even where parties incorporated a non-variation clause into the agreement. However, there is an urgent need to review and amend South African statutes and rules to fully acknowledge the fact that e-technology is a constantly evolving modern reality. Therefore, South African laws and rules ought to be in-line with e-technology developments and competitive with international jurisdictions such as England, the United States of America and Canada. The rules of these jurisdictions realise the use of e-technology and digital e-technology, particularly in England where a pilot project that facilitates the use of e-technology and digital e-technology in civil proceedings, is already in place. The time has come to fully employ e-technology and digital e- technology law within South African law of civil procedure. This research investigates the possibility, and practical implications, thereof. / Criminal and Procedural Law / LL. D.

Retribution Judiciary of Extraordinary People's Courts in the Central Bohemia Goal of this Dissertation is to complement up-to-date literature resources about Retribution with a statistical analysis of two Extraordinary People's Courts in Mladá Boleslav and Kutná Hora, to answer defined research questions, and to develop a novel methodology for assembling name lists of charged individuals, which can serve in the future as a supporting tool for an easier formation of new name lists coming from other Extraordinary People's Courts. Another goal was to determine an influence of a so-called layman element on the court's decisions. Files in eponymous collections deposited in Regional Archive in Prague served as a main source of data. A brief probe into Extraordinary People's Court in Prague is also included in this work. Studies of the files showed that 487 men and 124 women were charged by the Extraordinary People's Court in Mladá Boleslav. Therefore, one fifth of charged individuals were women. Statistical analysis also showed that an average woman had a bigger chance of being acquitted; men were judged more strictly. This Court prosecuted mainly people of Czech nationality. Nationality also had an influence on a length of a sentence, which was almost double among Germans. Whistle-blowing was the most...

Le développement de l’arbitrage international s’inscrit de nos jours, comme l’un des modes alternatifs de règlement des conflits le plus utilisé. Sa nature hybride, à la fois contractuelle et juridictionnelle, en fait le mode privilégié du monde des affaires ; cet engouement pour l’arbitrage international, s’explique en ce que la mondialisation de l’économie et l’effacement progressif des frontières, ont obligé les acteurs du commerce, à résoudre les litiges avec efficacité et immédiateté ; chose que les juridictions étatiques ne sont pas à même de procurer dans la pratique, contrairement à l’arbitrage international, qui jouit d’une réputation favorable, en traitant les conflits qui lui sont confiés, avec célérité, efficacité et confidentialité. Reste une question : l’arbitrage international reçoit-il la-même acceptation selon tous les États ? Les études de droit comparé, démontrent à première vue, une réelle volonté d’harmonisation des dispositions entourant l’arbitrage afin d’en faire un mode totalement autonome des juridictions étatiques. Cependant, une analyse plus approfondie démontrera que cette volonté est relative, ce qui poussera le juge étatique à intervenir tout au long de la procédure arbitrale (avant, pendant, après) pour en faire « un auxiliaire indispensable de la justice arbitrale » . Cette intervention du juge étatique, sera néanmoins plus délicate dans la première phase de l’arbitrage (avant), en ce que dérivent de cette ingérence, la mise en œuvre ou non de l’arbitrage. Surviennent alors de nombreuses questions : est-ce que l’intervention du juge étatique contrevient à l’autonomie de l’arbitrage international ? Mais aussi, quelle est la nature de cette intervention : coercitive, d’assistance, de contrôle ? Cela met-il en péril l’autorité de l’arbitre-juge ? Est-ce que cette intervention du juge étatique peut être utilisée par les parties à des fins dilatoires? Tout l’enjeu de ces travaux sera de trouver des réponses à ces questions au travers une étude de droit comparée entre la France et les États-Unis. / Summary Nowadays, international arbitration is one of the most commonly used alternative forms of conflict resolution. Its hybrid nature, both contractual and jurisdictional, makes it the preferred mode of the business world ; this enthusiasm for international arbitration is shown in the fact that economic globalization and the gradual disappearance of borders have forced trading parties to resolve disputes with efficiency and immediacy, which state courts are unable to provide in practice ; this is in contrast to international arbitration, which has a favorable reputation in managing and resolving conflicts entrusted to it in a timely manner, efficiently and confidentially. Nevertheless, a question remains: does international arbitration have the same acceptance from all states? At first glance, studies in comparative law show a genuine desire to harmonize the provisions surrounding arbitration, so as to render it a totally autonomous mode of state jurisdiction. However, a more thorough analysis will show that this desire is relative, which will push the state judge to intervene throughout the arbitration process (before, during, after) to make it "an arbitral justiceÕs indispensable auxiliary ". However, this intervention by the state judge will be more delicate in the arbitrationÔs first phase, and the result will be its implementation or not. Then, a number of questions arise: does the intervention of the state judge violate the autonomy of international arbitration? But also, what is the nature of this intervention: coercive, assistance, control? Does this jeopardize the authority of the referee-judge? Can this intervention by the state court be used by the parties for delaying purposes? The challenge will be to find answers to these questions through a study of comparative law between France and the United States.

The purpose of this study is to access the viability of traditional African courts in a future legal dispensation in South Africa. The research method used is a study of literature, court decisions and relevant statutes. The development of indigenous courts in South Africa is broadly outlined. As an analogy to the South African court system, the courts of Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana are used to illustrate the dual systems of courts. Rapid urbanisation is discussed to illustrate that despite the increasing urbanisation, traditional values remain inherent to South African Blacks. The salient features of indigenous courts are analysed to facilitate the development of reform measures that have to be implemented so that the courts can meet the challenge of the future. / Constitutional, International and Indigenous Law / LL.M.

Text in Afrikaans / In enige arbeidsverhouding bly dit wenslik dat partye hulle onderlinge verpligtinge vrywilliglik sal nakom. Soms is dit nie moontlik vanwee die onderlinge wantroue tussen partye nie en daarom is di t belangrik om te let op wyses van afdwinging van nywerheidsraadooreenkomste, versoeningsraadooreenkomste en vasstellings en bevele van die Nywerheidshof. Nywerheidsrade en versoeningsrade is die instrumente wat daar gestel is sodat partye onderling kan beding om geskille te voorkom en ooreenkomste van onderlinge belang te beding. Daar is sekere regsgevolge verbonde aan die publikasie van sodanige ooreenkomste en as sodanig word dit as h vorm van ondergeskikte wetgewing beskou. Wat die afdwinging van sodanige ooreenkomste betref speel die strafsanksie h belangrike rol. Ooreenkomste word egter nie noodwendig gepubliseer nie en soms is die strafsanksie ook nie altyd die aangewese een nie. In sodanige gevalle sal daar na siviele sanksies gekyk moet word vir die afdwinging van sodanige ooreenkomste. Daarbenewens maak die Wet ook voorsiening dat sodanige ooreenkomste as h onbillike arbeidspraktyk ~n die Nywerheidshof afgedwing kan word. Die strafsanksie en die siviele sanksie het egter hulle tekortkominge en dus moet dear gekyk word na alternatiewe wyses vir die afdwinging van ooreenkomste. / Constitutional, International and Indigenous Law / LL.M