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The case of Baby MB (An NHS Trust v MB (A child represented by the CAFCASS as Guardian ad Litem) [2006] EWHC 507 (Fam) [2006] 2FLR 319 reveals some of the difficulties faced by persons of faith when they are involved in legal proceedings in the English law courts. It raises the question of whether faith is relevant when decisions are taken in court, and if so how it is relevant. What high profile healthcare cases like this also illustrate is that there are legal cases that involve not just legal issues, but also ethical and faith issues. However, when these cases come to court they are framed as though they are primarily legal disputes that require a purely legal solution. While judges address the legal issues, they are reluctant to address the ethical and faith issues, and if they do address the ethical and faith issues, they address them in strictly legal terms. These difficulties are not restricted to one faith but encompass all faiths, and they are not restricted to litigants but also include representatives of Christian churches who make submissions to court. Although the difficulties are often revealed in healthcare cases they are not restricted to these cases but include other types of legal case and extend to employment tribunals. These cases raise important questions about how courts and tribunals deal with persons of faith, how we understand conflict and resolve disputes, the nature and aim of law, the relationship between law, ethics and religion, the role of judges, and how we perceive and deal procedurally with cases that involve issues of faith. This thesis will explore these issues, and discuss whether room can be made for faith in English Dispute Resolution proceedings, and if so, how this might be accomplished.

The theme of my graduation thesis is "The Status of Bankruptcy Creditors in Insolvency Proceedings according to the Act No. 182/2006 Coll., (The Insolvency Act)". The purpose of my thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis aimed at creditor's rights and duties during insolvency proceedings, with a special attention focused on selected topics. One of my goals is to highlight the big progress of creditors achieved with the new legal regulation. I also concern myself with those provisions of The Insolvency Act, which from my perspective offer an ambiguous interpretation. Therefore application of these provisions may cause problematic situation difficult to be resolved. The thesis is structured into seven chapters. The first two parts are dedicated to a general introduction to the insolvency law with an accent to basic legal principles and institutes of insolvency proceedings. We find there also a brief historical overview of insolvency in Czech Republic as well as general aspects of replacing The Act No. 328/1991 Coll., on bankruptcy and settlement (The Bankruptcy and Settlement Act) with a new Insolvency Act. In Chapter 3, I describe the basic creditor's instruments they can use in order to impact the effectiveness of their claims satisfaction mentioning also one of the bankruptcy conditions which is the...

Inheritance proceedings The goal of my Master's thesis is to describe in detail the course of the inheritance proceedings. Even though, the overall rule states that inheritance is assumed at the moment of decedent's death, the inheritance proceedings must take place. It is therefore a procedure set by law that is presided by a notary as a court commissar who is authorized by a competent court. During the proceedings, the notary locates decedent's inheritors, his assets and debts. With conclusion of the proceedings, all decedent's property relations are assorted in order. Simply it can be said, the conclusion of the inheritance proceedings is a division of decedent's assets and debts among all heirs. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter describes the history of the inheritance proceedings and the position of a notary as a court commissar in the period in between the First Republic to the contemporary practice. Furthermore, the contemporary inheritance proceeding is characterized as well as its function and legal framework, including its demarcation as a non-adversarial process. The second chapter deals with matters of court's authority and competence for the inheritance proceedings. The subchapter with inheritance proceedings with a foreign aspect, e.g. inheritance proceeding...

Witness in Criminal Proceedings The aim of this thesis is to provide a compact overview of the rights and duties related to a witness, which affect his position in criminal proceedings. The witness is considered as a one of the fundamental institutions of criminal law. The witness's testimony with its irreplaceable role also ranks among the most important evidence provided by criminal proceedings. The witness in principle can be found in all stages of on-going criminal proceedings, whereas the circle of persons, which may be witnesses, is not a priori restricted. The witness's role is in particular very significant in preparatory stage of criminal proceedings as without his testimony there is often impossible to identify the perpetrator of a committed crime. He is also important in such a trial, where the court based on his testimony is able to decide, whether an accused is in truth guilty, i.e. decide on his punishment, or on acquittal. The thesis itself is divided into six chapters, which are further divided. The first chapter deals with the definition of a witness and the conditions of being legally qualified to perform as a witness and finally with the necessity of distinguishing a witness from other persons being involved in criminal proceedings. The second chapter is devoted to all duties...

The main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive description and an analysis of a remediation solution in the insolvency proceedings, the reorganization under the Czech law and a comparison with French applicable law of restructuring. Act. No. 182/2006 Sb., hereinafter called as Insolvency Act, became effective on January, 1st 2008. After economic crisis between the years 2007 and 2009 was proved the urgency to modify an unsuitable and outdated Czech law from 1991. Insolvency act brought many new institutes mainly to the Czech procedural law and finally it set up new methods for insolvency non-liquidation resolution - reorganization. Institute of reorganization utilizes varying restructuring methods principally intended for large businesses that fulfill the conditions of the reorganization proceedings. The thesis is divided into twelve chapters. First eight chapters are providing the reader with fundamental elements of insolvency proceedings that are necessary for the overview of the reorganization proceedings. These chapters are further divided into smaller parts covering the description of the historical development, explanation of bankruptcy, parties to the insolvency proceedings, insolvency petition, automatic stay and insolvency estate. The most important part of this thesis the ninth...

My master thesis is dedicated to proceedings in matrimonial cases - namely proceedings of marriage authorization and status matrimonial case proceedings. However, the main focus of my thesis is dedicated to divorce proceedings mainly because it is the most frequent proceeding from all in matrimonial cases and also because divorce represents a social phenomenon of current society. The whole thesis is composed of three main segments along with an introduction and conclusion. The first segment of my thesis classifies proceedings in matrimonial cases in accordance with legal taxonomy as a part of uncontested proceedings. Then further describes the reason of division of uncontested proceedings from the Code of Civil Procedure and also relation between the Code of Civil Proceedings and the Act of Special Court Proceedings. The following chapter engages in proceedings in matrimonial cases at first generally, then introduces the institute of marriage itself, follows enumeration on all types of matrimonial proceeding, analyses them and compares their differences and resemblances. Nevertheless divorce procedure is described in detail in the next segment of my thesis. A separate part is dedicated to the divorce of marriage which consists of several chapters including divorce from sociological point of view,...

Conference proceedings are an important venue for publishing original research and often final research in computer science. They represent a large body of the literature in this field, and are generally considered as important, if not more, as journal articles. However, the quality or impact of conference proceedings has been controversial. This research tries to compare the impact of conference proceedings with that of journal articles, studying publications of Canadian computer scientists. Specifically, the following questions will be addressed: what is the percentage of conference proceedings in the computer science literature? What are the trends of publishing in this field? And more important, are there differences between proceedings and journal articles in terms of their structure and impact? Methods: 30 faculty members in the computer science departments, schools, or equivalent from 15 Canadian research universities were randomly selected. Scopus database was searched to identify publications by each of the 30 faculty. The structure of the two types of publications (conference proceedings and journal articles) and their impact were studied. Implications: The research findings will provide a better understanding of scholarly communication in computer science field. The results will: enable research evaluators to make informed decision when assessing the publications of computer scientists; h elp computer scientists to decide where to publish their research in order to achieve greater impact, and to select what document types to read from an increasing number of papers; help computer science librarians in collection development and in information literacy program delivery. / A presentation at C-EBLIP Fall Symposium, October 15, 2014, University of Saskatchewan.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-130).