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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Court systems"”.
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A comparative analysis of the court structures in Nigeria and South Africa
… on carrying out a comparison between the current court systems (with particular reference to structures) in Nigeria and South Africa. A pertinent question that comes to bear in relation to court systems, is whether the current court structure in South Africa should be adopted by Nigeria? The …
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The Class Action Mechanisms Across the Pacific: The Missions of Class Action Mechanisms in the U.S., China and Taiwan
… Taiwan, including an analysis of the legal and court systems or other institutions involved in the implementation of class action devices. Class actions have been a prominent feature of U.S. civil procedure law. However, with the increase in collective or mass conflicts inherent in modern …
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Alternative dispute resolution and its place in the Zambian judicial system
… In the face of bottlenecks and backlogs in the court systems, as well as spiralling costs and fees, courts and members of the legal fraternity have been part of the movement seeking means other than litigation for resolving disputes.The development of more flexible means of resolving disputes in …
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Structural and Cultural Sources of Variation in Guilty Plea Rates: A Study of Illinois Circuit Courts
… for reduced charges and/or sentences from the court. Yet "guilty plea rates of felony case convictions" generally range from .65 to .98 annually across U.S. circuit courts, indicating that the average of .90 is not uniform across jurisdictions. Criminal justice theorists have researched the …
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Part V of Act II of 1996 international commercial arbitration in Malta
… As a viable alternative to the many domestic court systems around the world, it offers a number of irrefutable attractions to the international business community. Its appeal is worldwide and growing. It follows that the future can also be bright for Malta in the field of international …
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Consumer redress; an enquiry into individual mechanisms providing access to justice for consumers
… focused on the formal and forbidding nature of court proceedings and the general public's reluctance to use the County Court systems for the enforcement of their rights. Since the Consumer Council's indictment of the County Court process in 1970 and the subsequent creation of the Small Claims …
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Extensions and Applications of Ensemble-of-trees Methods in Machine Learning
… of violence during probation hearings in court systems.
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Alternative to Incarceration Methods: A Case Study of the Hall County Drug Court
… This is one of the reasons that accountability courts have become a more accepted and utilized part of the criminal justice system. Many jurisdictions are taking advantage of what these programs have to offer in an effort to battle the rising cost of prosecuting drug offenders. Drug addiction is …
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Navigating Systemic Barriers: Experiences of Deaf Persons in the Criminal Justice System in Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
… face in their interactions with police and in court proceedings. These include communication barriers, limited professional awareness, attitudinal bias, and legal obstacles. These barriers constitute a denial of fundamental human rights and indicate that the criminal justice system in Ethiopia …
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Juvenile justice reform: A tale of two systems
… embedded within the second initiative, a family court pilot project. Detention screening tools have been developed primarily to alleviate detention center overcrowding and to reduce disproportionate minority confinement in those centers. The instrument under analysis limits discretion by judges …
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Party autonomy and judicial participation in commercial arbitration: recalibrating the role of Nigerian courts.
Courts and arbitration tribunals aim to resolve disputes and make enforceable decisions in their distinctive way. However, unlike courts, tribunals lack state enforcement power to function independently. Consequently, arbitrating parties have had to approach the courts for various supports. …
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Trauma Treatment for Youth in Foster Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Clinician Perspectives and Treatment Model Use
… working with caseworkers (n = 91), working with court systems (n = 77), and working with biological caregivers (n = 91). Conversely, providers described inner contextual variables (i.e., internal variables defined in the EPIS framework) as facilitators, such as agency policies and support (n = …
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The role of the compliance officer – a comparison of US, UK and German law and practice.
… sources of law in the common law and civil law systems. First, this chapter provides an overview of the fundamental characteristics of the main sources, the general structure of the court systems, the differences and similarities, and a summary of developments of both the common law and civil …
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Capital 2.0 capital formation and legal risk in a new global economic order from fiat to exit: including case studies of the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership between the United States and the European Union and the financing relation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China
… of transnational dispute resolution and current court systems with transnational jurisdiction, Stahl advocates as a first step in order to complete the Capital Formation Life Cycle from FIAT, the creation of money by way of credit, to EXIT, the termination of money by way of judicial order, the …