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Computers have become indispensable in all walks of life, causing people to rely increasingly on their accurate performance. Defective computer programs, the incorrect use of computer programs and the non-use of computer programs can cause serious damage. Expert systems are an application of artificial intelligence techniques whereby the human reasoning process is simulated in a computer system, enabling the system to act as a human expert when executing a task. Expert systems are used by professional users as an aid in reaching a decision and by nonprofessional users to solve a problem or to decide upon a specific course of action. As such they can be compared to a consumer product through which professional services are sold. The various parties that may possibly be held liable in the event of damage suffered by the use of expert systems are identified as consisting of two main groups, namely the producers and the users. Because of the frequent exemption of liability for any consequential loss in standard form computer contracts, the injured user may often have only a delictual action at her disposal. The faultbased delictual actions in SA law give inadequate protection to unsuspecting software users who incur ·personal and property damage through the use of defective expert systems since it is almost impossible for an unsophisticated injured party to prove the negligence of the software developer during the technical production process. For this reason it is recommended that software liability be grounded on strict liability in analogy to the European Directive on Liability for Defective Products. It is also pointed out that software standards and quality assurance procedures have a major role to play in the determination of the elements of wrongfulness and negligence in software liability and that the software industry should be accorded professional status to ensure a safe standard of computer programming. / Private Law / LL.D.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-21T08:58:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Garbelini Chiquito.pdf: 1661155 bytes, checksum: 51c1d3fd662927bf2049fda1d247cd3c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-21T08:58:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Garbelini Chiquito.pdf: 1661155 bytes, checksum: 51c1d3fd662927bf2049fda1d247cd3c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-24 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The present study aims to analyze the structure and legal and economic bases of the health insurance contract. In a first moment, we will analyze the historical evolution of the insurance operation in the world, its essential characteristics and its legal nature in order to show the economic base that underlies it with due note of the main obligations of the parties involved in this type of contract. In a second moment, comments are made on contractual developments to demonstrate the overcoming of individual interests in a favor of a free, fair, egalitarian and solidary society. The guidelines and mechanisms introduced by the Civil Code of 2002 will be studied in an attempt to better adapt the institutes of private law to social and economic evolution, with emphasis on the incidence of the fundamentally constitucional rights guaranteed in private law relations and institutes. Also detailed are the classic principles of insurance contracts, with emphasis on the accessory duties of the parties to the relationship and their relevant social interest. Finally, the structure, functioning, legal and economic aspects of health insurance contracts will be evaluated, in order to highlight the factors and problems that the sector faces due to the increasing increases in the insurance costs, creating alternatives to mitigate this problem, without going into detail in the aspecto related to the judicialization of health. The approach adopted is not only legalistic in the doctrinal sense, but rather, there was a great concern to explain the phenomenon from its historical origins, as well as to relate them to the causes that have shaped its features, guidelines and principles. The aim was to demonstrate the appropriate degree of state intervention on contractual freedom without detracting the attributes that are essential to it, emphasizing the role of the judge in the application of general clauses and principles, as well as in the necessary self-responsibility, solidarity and cooperation of the members of the relationship of insurance so that the contract transcends the intersubjective relationship and reaches a social pacification / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a estrutura e as bases jurídicas e econômicas do contrato de seguro relativo à saúde. Em um primeiro momento, analisa-se a evolução histórica da operação de seguro no mundo, suas características essenciais e sua natureza jurídica, de forma a evidenciar a base econômica que lhe fundamenta com o devido apontamento das principais obrigações das partes envolvidas nesse tipo de contrato. Em um segundo momento, são tecidos comentários a respeito da evolução contratual para demonstrar a superação dos interesses individuais em prol de uma sociedade livre, justa, igualitária e solidária. Ainda são estudadas as diretrizes e os mecanimos introduzidos pelo Código Civil de 2002, na tentativa de melhor adequar os institutos de direito privado à evolução social e econômica, com ênfase na incidência dos direitos fundamentais constitucionalmente assegurados nas relações e institutos de direito privado. Também são pormenorizados os princípios clássicos atinentes aos contratos de seguro, com ênfase nos deveres acessórios das partes integrantes da relação e no seu relevante interesse social. Por último, são avaliadas as estruturas, o funcionamento, os aspectos jurídicos e econômicos dos contratos de seguro saúde, de modo a ressaltar os fatores e os problemas a serem enfrentados pelo setor em razão do crescente aumento dos custos do seguro, criando alternativas para amenizar este problema, sem adentrar, pormenorizadamente, no aspecto relativo à judicialização da saúde. A abordagem adotada não é apenas legalista no sentido doutrinário, mas sim houve uma grande preocupação em explicar o fenômeno a partir de suas origens históricas, assim como relacioná-las às causas que teceram suas feições, diretrizes e princípios. Buscou-se evidenciar o grau adequado de intervenção estatal sobre a liberdade contratual sem descaracterizar os atributos que lhe são essenciais, ressaltando o papel do juiz na aplicação das cláusulas gerais e dos princípios, bem como na necessária autorresponsabilidade, solidariedade e coperação dos integrantes da relação de seguro para que o contrato transcenda a relação intersubjetiva e alcance uma pacificação social

Submitted by Biblioteca Central (biblioteca@unicap.br) on 2017-11-08T18:47:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_denise_texeira_oliveira.pdf: 941783 bytes, checksum: b17927bfd558c8f4b021f80f249df75a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-08T18:47:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_denise_texeira_oliveira.pdf: 941783 bytes, checksum: b17927bfd558c8f4b021f80f249df75a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-07 / The purpose of this dissertation is to theoretically analyze article 5°, LXXVIII of the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, known as the Fundamental Right to the Reasonable Duration of the Lawsuit, or the right to a lawsuit without unneeded dilations. This study is constructed through a dialectic hermeneutical process, aiming Procedural Law which has constitutional foundation. The problematic is centered historically and is developed during the 45th Constitutional Amendment scenario, within the procedimentalist and substantialist paradigmatic conflict, who define the part that should be played by the magistrate in the Constitutional State of Law. The hypothesis is of which the insertion of the Fundamental Right to the Reasonable Duration of the Lawsuit in the hard core of constitutional text gives it, through a material and formal points of view, legal characteristics of fundamental right, with immediate and complete efficacy, even thought it does not have aptitude to interfere in the procedural march, reducing their time span. It also demonstrates that many assumptions under which the jurisdictional response delay problem are untrue, because they are not scientific approaches of the problem or have shown themselves unable to solve the problem. Recognizing the relativity of its concept and theoretical abstractions of the Fundamental Right, firm an concept of the terms Right to the Reasonable Duration of the Lawsuit are made, taking into consideration the many view points of the actors in its relation. With its iusfundamentality, the Right to the Reasonable Duration of the Lawsuit puts itself through an interdisciplinary approach with other themes of the legal science, questioning the doubts of its judiciality, bringing back to focus the problem of the criteria of legitimation of the jurisdictional power in Brazilian law, the role of the magistrate in the realization of rights, and the realization of the material effects of the judicial decisions. Also as an objective, making the Fundamental Right to the Reasonable Duration of the Lawsuit shine its theme of the civil responsibility of the state and magistrate due to the unlawful time dilation of the judicial lawsuits, due to negligence or disdain in the conduction of the lawsuit, having in mind the text that resulted from the parallel amendment after the promulgation of the 45th amendment to the Constitution of Brazil. The active and passive entitlement of the Fundamental Right to the Reasonable Duration of the Lawsuit will also be studied, as will be the consequences of its vertical efficiency against the state, and horizontally, as a reflection of the fundamental rights between particulars- which operates, in the case of the right studied, between the poles of the procedural relationship whose time gap has grown beyond what is reasonably expected. / A proposta desta dissertação é a análise teórica do artigo 5°, inciso LXXVIII, da Constituição Federal de 1988, conhecido como Direito Fundamental à Duração Razoável do Processo, ou Direito ao Processo sem Dilações Indevidas. O estudo é construído sob método hermenêutico-dialético, com enfoque no Direito Processual que tem assento constitucional. A problemática é centrada historicamente e desenvolvida no cenário da Reforma do Poder Judiciário implementada pela Emenda Constitucional n°45/04, bem como, dentro do contexto de confronto entre os paradigmas procedimentalista e substancialista que definem, segundo os discursos de aplicação e justificação, o papel da magistratura no Estado constitucional e democrático de direito. A hipótese é a de que a inserção do direito à Duração Razoável do Processo no núcleo fundamental do texto constitucional dá a ele, tanto do ponto de vista formal quanto material, natureza jurídica de Direito Fundamental, com eficácia plena e imediata, embora não tenha a aptidão para interferir na marcha dos processos, abreviando-lhe o tempo de duração. Este trabalho demonstra, ainda, que algumas das premissas sobre as quais o tema da morosidade da prestação jurisdicional se desenvolve na atualidade são falsas, porquanto não se prestem a uma abordagem científica e, principalmente, por se mostrarem inócuas a solucionar o problema. Reconhecendo a relatividade e abstração conceitual dos direitos fundamentais em geral, esta dissertação estabelece uma definição operacional dos termos Duração Razoável do Processo, levando em consideração e discutindo as diversas óticas dos atores da relação processual. Com sua jusfundamentalidade, a Duração Razoável do Processo vem, em uma abordagem interdisciplinar, colocar-se em cotejo com outros temas da Ciência Jurídica, questionando acerca de sua judiciabilidade, reacendendo a problemática dos critérios de legitimação para o exercício do Poder jurisdicional no direito brasileiro, do papel do magistrado na concretização dos direitos materiais e, por conseguinte, a conscientização acerca dos efeitos concretos das decisões judiciais. Visa, também, fazer o Direito Fundamental à Duração Razoável do Processo iluminar o tema da Teoria geral da responsabilidade civil do Estado e do magistrado em decorrência da dilação indevida do tempo de duração dos processos judiciais, analisando as hipóteses em que tal fato se dá por negligência ou desídia na condução do processo, tendo em vista o texto que resultou na Proposta de Emenda Constitucional paralela após a promulgação da Emenda Constitucional n°45/04. Também serão estudadas as titularidades ativa e passiva do Direito Fundamental à Duração Razoável do Processo, como conseqüência de sua eficácia vertical, contra o Estado e, horizontal, referente à eficácia dos direitos fundamentais entre particulares - que se operam, no caso do direito em estudo, entre as partes da relação processual - quando litigam em processo que se desenvolveu em lapso de tempo além do que razoavelmente se esperava.

A study is done on the protection of sound recordings in the decentralized peer-to-peer (DP2P) file sharing in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa. This study reveals that because sound recordings have unique features different from other copyright works, the illegal sharing of sound recordings can ordinarily be filtered, identified, and detected by the Internet service providers (ISPs) before granting access to users and without infringing the users‟ right to privacy. However, the ISPs have failed in this regard, hence, they are strictly held liable under the contributory, vicarious and inducing infringements notwithstanding the statutory law which prohibits ISPs from monitoring, and intercepting their networks. In fact and law, the terms filtering, identifying and detecting on the one hand and monitoring and intercepting on the other hand are different in relation to sound recordings and as such ISPs are not prohibited from filtering, identifying and detecting illegal sound recordings on their networks, thus, ISPs are not protected under the limitation law as it is generally believed. However, several recommendations are made for reform, inter alia: a review of the limitation law to include the terms filtering, identifying and detecting in pursuance of the terms monitoring, and intercepting, if the intention of the legislators was meant to include the latter terms; protection of access right in digital sound recordings, protection of the neighbouring rights of ISPs in the digital world, imposing levies on all recording equipment, the insurability of sound recordings and ISPs‟ signals, and bandwidth. / Mercentile Law / LL. M. (Mercantile Law)

A study is done on the protection of sound recordings in the decentralized peer-to-peer (DP2P) file sharing in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa. This study reveals that because sound recordings have unique features different from other copyright works, the illegal sharing of sound recordings can ordinarily be filtered, identified, and detected by the Internet service providers (ISPs) before granting access to users and without infringing the users‟ right to privacy. However, the ISPs have failed in this regard, hence, they are strictly held liable under the contributory, vicarious and inducing infringements notwithstanding the statutory law which prohibits ISPs from monitoring, and intercepting their networks. In fact and law, the terms filtering, identifying and detecting on the one hand and monitoring and intercepting on the other hand are different in relation to sound recordings and as such ISPs are not prohibited from filtering, identifying and detecting illegal sound recordings on their networks, thus, ISPs are not protected under the limitation law as it is generally believed. However, several recommendations are made for reform, inter alia: a review of the limitation law to include the terms filtering, identifying and detecting in pursuance of the terms monitoring, and intercepting, if the intention of the legislators was meant to include the latter terms; protection of access right in digital sound recordings, protection of the neighbouring rights of ISPs in the digital world, imposing levies on all recording equipment, the insurability of sound recordings and ISPs‟ signals, and bandwidth. / Mercentile Law / LL. M. (Mercantile Law)

This study examines the basis of contractual liability in indigenous law. It concludes that contractual liability arises only from real contracts where one party has performed fully or partially in terms of an agreement. Attention is given to both the nature and concept of indigenous contracts to ascertain the function of contracts in indigenous societies in order to bring a holistic perspective to the topic. It is demonstrated that the settlement of disputes arising out of indigenous contracts is primarily focused on the reconciliation of people and the consequent maintenance of harmony within the community. The foremost concern in indigenous law of contract is with human justice rather than with strict legal justice, and expression is thereby given to prevailing community values. / Indigenous Law / LL.M.

This study was undertaken to establish whether rights of personality are known in indigenous law. Since indigenous law differs not only between tribes but is also affected by the degree of exposure to Western values, a micro-study has been done in a semi-rural environment in the Kingdom of Swaziland to establish to what extent own value systems have been influenced or altered when Western legal concepts are utilised. The information, obtained by interviewing a panel of experts, was compared with the available literature. During the process of gathering information, the aims of the research were not only to describe how the legal principles function, but also to take note of those socio-cultural processes which function outside of the law. Rights of personality were studied against a background of the culture and way of life of the peoples concerned. The importance of culture has been acknowledged in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, wherein the recognition and application of indigenous law generally rests on a constitutionally protected right to culture. Whilst the identifiable rights of personality may generally be classified according to specialised legal systems, the separation of rights to good name and to dignity may be inappropriate in the indigenous sphere. Dignity in indigenous legal systems is to be viewed as a comprehensive right of personality, into which should be subsumed the right to good name and reputation in the community. It is such dignity, embracing the ubuntu quality of humanness that is protected as a comprehensive indigenous right of personality. Although the indigenous law of personality is showing some signs of adapting to new developments, there is also proof that the established legal principles and human values are being retained. However, these changes are unique and are neither typically traditional nor Western. The indigenous law of personality, operating in a changing social environment, has to retain its flexibility and adaptability in order to remain ”living” law for the peoples concerned. / Jurisprudence / LL.D.

If the expectancy that someone was to act according to what we deem to be his or her “duty” was that straightforward, there would be no need to address the issues of liability of the employee for the wrongful acts of the employer. The recent - and some say alarming - trend in South Africa to hold employers (particularly the government) liable for wrongful, culpable acts committed by their employees, gives rise to difficulties and any inquiry into the possible vicarious liability of the employer should necessarily always start by asking whether there was in fact a wrongful, culpable act committed by the employee. If not, there can neither be direct liability of the employee nor vicarious liability by the employer. Where the employee did indeed commit a delict, the relationship between the wrongdoer and his or her employer at the time of the wrongdoing becomes important. It is then often, in determining whether the employee was acting in the scope of his or her employment that normative issues come to the fore. Over the years South African courts have devised tests to determine whether an employee was in fact acting in the scope of his employment. / Jurisprudence / LLM

As a point of departure in this inherently interdisciplinary endeavour, the concept "Holistic Multidisciplinary Management" ("HMM") is introduced a.s a macrocosmic adaption of principles of project management. In line with HMM, a number of submissions regarding terminology and definitions in the interdisciplinary context of medicine (and particularly clinical psychiatry) and law, are made, and the foundations of medical malpractice are examined. Building on the various foundations laid, specific types of conduct that can constitute clinical-psychiatric malpractice, are addressed. A common theme that emerges in the various contexts covered, is that the psychiatrist must negotiate various proverbial tightropes, involving inter alia tensions between restraint and freedom, excessive and insufficient medication, becoming too involved and not being involved enough with clients, as well as client confidentiality and the duty to warn third parties. It is concluded that law and medicine. must work harmoniously together to establish appropriate balance. This can be achieved only if mutual understanding and integrated functioning are promoted and translated into practice. / Law / LL.M.