Yes / Participation of community stakeholders in health research priority setting is an emerging trend. Despite this, the involvement of marginalised groups in research prioritisation is limited and where they are involved, sample sizes are small, where individuals are merely consulted with, rather than coproducing the research agenda. Without addressing power dynamics inherent in research prioritisation with marginalised groups, their engagement in the research process can be tokenistic and the resulting research agenda unreflective of their needs. This article, therefore, aims to generate knowledge on how feminist participatory action research was used to co-produce an obesity research agenda with British Pakistani women, a seldom heard population, living in deprived areas. The methodology enabled Pakistani women to be involved in all stages of the project, culminating in the co-production of an obesity research agenda that accurately reflects their unmet needs. Women’s engagement in the project led to their increased confidence, the formation of relationships that lasted beyond the research project, improvements to their lifestyles, and engagement in further research. Feminist participatory action research may be used by researchers as a guiding methodology due to its ability to improve women’s lives and develop research agendas for women’s health. / National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber [NIHR200166], the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) - [MR/S037527/1], the NIHR Clinical Research Network, NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber / Research Development Fund Publication Prize Award winner, Jul 2023.

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The topic of preliminary injunctions (injunctive relief) in civil proceedings has not been monographically processed and published in the Czech Republic for more than one hundred years. That is in spite of the practical relevance and topical debates pertaining to the topic. A whole array of problematic questions connected to preliminary injunctions is controversial and also legal opinions in Czech commentary literature considerably diverge in respect to particular issues. The thesis offers a systematic approach to preliminary injunctions and proceedings governed by the Czech Civil Proceedings Code and the Statute on Special Court Proceedings ("OSŘ" and "ZŘS"). Attention is paid to historic developments and comparable jurisdictions (especially Germany and Austria), which are used as a reference in cases where Czech sources are insufficient. The aim of the work is to pose and answer fundamental questions of the "law of preliminary injunctions". The work deals with function, typology, relation to the proceedings based on merits, interlocutory character, limits, means, effects, particularities (such as demonstration, justification), requirements for granting and possibilities of enforcement of preliminary measures, further with relation to relative legal creatures (i.e. preliminary enforceability) and...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Augusto Martins Canhadas.pdf: 1200571 bytes, checksum: 105372f5af7012ed8e4f2cf107a9f7d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-20 / The purpose of this paper was, by systematizing some doubts still unsolved by doctrine related to the guarantees applicable to the inspection administrative proceedings, to sustain the need of attempting to the private s right to be heard on such proceedings, as an indispensable mean in the search for the material truth that, to its turn, derives directly from the so called substantive conception of the due process of law. Our main concern was to pursue solid grounds for that conclusion. In this context, the first defiance was to draw up some conceptual delimitation about the formal and the material aspects of that constitutional clause, in view of the direct correspondence between the subject of the inspection proceedings and the issues regarding the freedom and the property limitations, since such proceedings involve administrative acts enacted under the so called police power. Afterwards we elaborated our conceptual differentiation between process and administrative proceedings, based upon our interpretation that the guarantees established on article 5, LV of the Brazilian Constitution, concerning to the right of full defense and the contradiction, are only applicable to the process itself, thus characterized by a litigation deriving from a conflict of interests. On the other side we verified that the guarantees related to the substantive due process of law, such as the principles of the equity, reasonability, proportionality and of the efficacy, shall remain in the proceedings not qualified by litigation. Further, we have developed the idea of the need for such inspection proceedings and not process to serve the search for the material truth and we concluded that such constitutional clause only can be accomplished by a deep investigation of the facts analyzed. Finally, we concluded that one of the indispensable means to the exercise of this search is the actually hearing the interested private. Thus, based on a theoretical construction aiming to solve several practical cases presented as illustration, we finalized our work asseverating that, although the guarantees of full defense and the contradiction are not applicable to all types of inspection administrative proceeding including those related to tax issues resides the duty of the State to hear the privates, in return to their right to be heard / O objetivo desse trabalho foi de, sistematizando algumas dúvidas que a doutrina ainda não resolveu acerca das garantias aplicáveis aos procedimentos administrativos de fiscalização, sustentar a necessidade de atenção ao direito de ser ouvido dos particulares nesses procedimentos, como meio indispensável à busca da verdade material, que, por sua vez, decorre diretamente da chamada acepção substantiva do devido processo legal. Nossa preocupação principal foi encontrar fundamentos sólidos para essa conclusão e, nesse contexto, o primeiro desafio enfrentado foi o de traçar delimitações conceituais acerca dos âmbitos formal e material daquela cláusula constitucional, tendo em vista a correspondência direta da matéria referente aos procedimentos de fiscalização com a questão das limitações à liberdade e à propriedade, por envolver atos administrativos emitidos no chamado exercício do poder de polícia. Em seguida elaboramos nossa diferenciação conceitual entre processo e procedimento administrativo, amparada em nossa interpretação de que as garantias previstas no artigo 5º, inciso LV da Carta Magna concernentes à ampla defesa e ao contraditório só aplicam-se a processos propriamente ditos, assim compreendidos aqueles em que há litigância, decorrente de interesses contrapostos. Verificamos, por outro lado, que para os procedimentos não litigiosos remanescem as garantias decorrentes do devido processo legal substantivo, dentre as quais destacamos os princípios da isonomia, da razoabilidade, da proporcionalidade e da eficácia. Desenvolvemos ainda a necessidade de os procedimentos e não processos fiscalizatórios atenderem à busca da verdade material e concluímos que apenas por meio da profunda investigação dos fatos analisados poderia ser atendida aquela garantia constitucional. Por último, concluímos que um dos meios imprescindíveis ao exercício dessa busca da verdade material é justamente a oitiva do particular interessado. Assim, amparando-nos em construção teórica voltada à solução de vários casos práticos trazidos para ilustração, finalizamos o trabalho afirmando que, embora não lhes sendo aplicáveis as garantias da ampla defesa e do contraditório, em todos os procedimentos administrativos de fiscalização inclusive os de natureza tributária reside o dever da Administração de ouvir o administrado, em contrapartida ao direito desse último de ser ouvido

In 2020, approximately 6900 children in Sweden were relevant for investigation of custody disputes. During the same year, 1802 court decisions were enforced regarding supervision by a contact person. Previous research has shown that children often have a lack of participation and opportunity to influence in these cases. It has also shown that parental rights and the child´s need for protection often outweigh the child´s expressed will. The aim of this study was to investigate children´s participation in the district court´s judgments regarding supervision by a contact person. What an impact the child´s will have and how factors such as age, risks and their best interest affect children´s ability to be involved. Through a qualitative content analysis, nine judgments from various district courts in Sweden during 2018-2021 have been selected. The material was then analyzed with the help of social constructivist theory and Roger Hart´s ladder of participation. The study shows that in six out of nine judgments, children are involved based on different levels and that 44% of the judgments are in accordance with the child´s expressed will. However, it has been difficult to read out how the child´s will has actually had a bearing on the verdict. The result also shows that factors such as age, risks and the best interests of the child affects the child´s ability to participate. In cases where the district court has not reported the child´s will or participation, no explanation or clarification is given as to why it is so.

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As it is evident from the title, in my thesis I would like to provide an overview of the undertakings' procedural rights in proceedings under Article 101 and/or 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Given the extensive investigative powers that are granted to the European Commission by the Council Regulation No 1/2003 and the consequences of being found guilty of violating Article 101 and/or 102 of the TFEU, it is necessary to ensure that the undertakings have enough ways available to exercise their right to defence and other rights and privileges guaranteed by the EU law and international treaties such as European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. the right to respect for private life). For this reason the EU law provides a range of procedural rights that should guarantee that both all the fundamental rights are observed and also serve as a system of checks and balances that prevents the misuse of the Commission's investigative powers. My thesis will focus individual rights of undertakings that are provided to them by the Council Regulation No 1/2003 and EU courts judicature. I will analyse their scope and purpose, the conditions under which they can be exercised and their limitations. Simultaneously a comparison between the rights of undertakings in the EU and U.S. legal system will...

兒童權利公約施行法自2014年11月20日實施至今已近三年，而依據該施行法之規定，政府已陸續展開國內法令與公約是否牴觸之檢視及以各級政府為對象之兒童權利教育宣導課程等工作，並於2017年11月完成兒童權利公約首次國家報告國際審查，施行法顯然已逐步將公約內涵國內法化而具重要之指標及實質意義。惟公約實踐之關鍵係公約規範能否確實成為檢視國內法律及政策之基準，以及得否為權利遭受侵害之兒少所具體主張；其中國家是否建置相關機制協助兒少行使其權利，確保兒少於未成年之際不因自身能力及發展尚未健全而無法行使其權利，對兒少權利之保障尤為重要。 儘管自2009年以來，除兒童權利公約外，立法院已先後透過施行法將其他四部聯合國人權公約轉換成為國內法律；然針對公約適用之若干核心議題，包括解釋及適用公約時應遵循之原則、公約與國內法律衝突時衍生之法律適用及權利遭受侵害之救濟機制等，皆有待闡釋及釐清。就此，本論文總結英國、德國、法國及美國等四國之實踐經驗而認為儘管公約之落實並「無一放諸四海皆準之方式」（no one right way），但以下公約國內法化之核心問題亟待確立：（一）施行法應明訂公約具直接適用效力條文之優位地位；（二）明確將「公約解釋模式」此一法院於個案審理中最強而有力、最能直接將公約標準導入國內法律體系之工具納入施行法；（三）透過公約解釋性文件資料庫之建置協助司法人員掌握公約規範之精神與內涵；（四）明文要求增修法律前應提出法案影響評估以確保增修內容與公約並未牴觸等，期使國內法制更能順利接軌國際人權公約。 本論文另以兒少被傾聽的權利為例，藉由與法官、律師、社工等17位兒少實務工作者進行深度訪談，彙整推導出兒少被傾聽的權利於司法程序中獲得實質實踐之效果不明（有權利但不一定有救濟）、兒少表意之環境未達「兒少友善」之標準，顯見國內兒少被傾聽權利之落實與公約標準確實存有相當之落差。此外，部分協助兒少行使其被傾聽權利之機制設計未確實掌握兒童權利之內涵、整體兒少司法環境未能以兒少為中心進行調整，以致於相關機制欠缺公約所強調之核心功能，無法使特定弱勢兒少享有與一般兒少同等之權利保障，亦有待補強及改善。。 本論文嘗試由實務面思考兒童權利公約於國內實踐之現況並導引出應更受重視之諸多面向及困境，期待法院及政府各級機關能更廣泛地採行及運用公約之規範及理念，在國內深化落實兒童權利公約之際，對於「兒童權利」精神所在及其可能為兒少所帶來之改變能有進一步之認知及體悟，並以此為基礎，在影響兒少甚鉅之司法及行政事件中建構一個更能鼓勵兒少參與及表達意見之友善環境。 / Following the coming into effect of the “Act to Implement Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)” on 20 November 2014, the Taiwan Government has adopted various initiatives to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), demonstrating the Act’s steady, yet far-reaching influence in incorporating the CRC into domestic law. In addition to harmonizing national legislation for children with the standards contained within the CRC, it is also of crucial importance for the government to ensure that children whose rights are being violated or disregarded have access to remedies, and that an effective framework is available to children to assist in the exercise and enjoyment of their rights. Despite the fact that the Taiwan Government has promulgated four implementation acts to incorporate international human rights conventions into domestic law since 2009, several fundamental issues remain with regard to the interpretation and application of the convention. Drawing on the experiences of England, Germany, France and the United States, this thesis makes the following observations: (1) the ‘convention-compliant’ approach to legal interpretation is one of the most powerful tools by which convention rights are directly transposed into domestic legal norms and should be expressly provided for in the Act; (2) to resolve potential conflict(s) between domestic law and convention rights, the Act should explicitly state that the CRC shall prevail in cases of inconsistences; (3) the Act should provide for the establishment of a database of interpretative documents issued by United Nations treaty bodies, to aid the practice and understanding of the CRC; and (4) human rights impact assessments should be undertaken before passing any new laws or amendments. The observations in this thesis are also based on in-depth interviews conducted by the researcher with 17 children’s practitioners. Such interviews highlight that not all children enjoy the right to be heard in family proceedings and that there is a gap between law and practice. More specifically, they highlight that “for rights to have meaning, effective remedies must be available to redress violations”; and family proceedings should be more child-centred with child-friendly designs, so that children in such settings can exercise their right to be heard effectively. This thesis also attempts to demonstrate that when mechanisms set up by the government fail to accomplish their legislative purpose and act as a safeguard for children’s rights, it is the more vulnerable groups of children (for example, children in care) who suffer from being denied the same rights as other children.