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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Law & Society"”.
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The Law Society of Ontario’s Assessment of Capacity in Relation to Mental Illness: A Critical Analysis
… especially acute in the legal profession. The Law Society of Ontario (“Law Society”), the regulator of the legal professions in the province, has a role to play in addressing these issues, particularly due to its statutory jurisdiction over the capacity of lawyers and paralegals (“licensees”). …
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The Termination of the Quickening Doctrine: American Law, Society, and the Advent of Professional Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
… That moment was called quickening. The common law of England and of the early United States embraced quickening. Prior to quickening abortion was legally and socially benign. Abortion was a non-issue, for life was not considered to exist before the fetus was quick — which usually occurs in the …
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Comparative analysis of judicial independence in Zambia and South Africa : security of tenure, appointment and removal procedures
… independence has been described in the case of Law Society of Lesotho v The Prime Minister and Another, as requiring judicial officers to be free to make their decisions without depending on the influence of another or any external pressure. The judiciary only owes its loyalty to the …
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Accepting the Unacceptable: Trinity Western University, Religious Freedom, and the Meaning of Liberal Constitutionalism
… the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Law Society of British Columbia v Trinity Western University. How this question is answered has significant implications for the law of religious freedom in Canada. This thesis posits a conceptual distinction between two types of public benefit: …
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Contextualized Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice: Utility of Actuarial, Clinical, and Structured Clinical Approaches to Predictions of Violence.
… students attending the American Psychology Law Society conference were asked to make several ratings regarding the likelihood of future sexual and nonsexual violence based on data derived from actual defendants with known outcomes. Using a mixed factorial design, each of these assessment …
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Lawyers, Legal Executives and Competing Claims for Professional Jurisdiction: A Study of Professional Organisations and Occupational Roles within a Legal Marketplace in Transition
… to use its knowledge base. The way in which the Law Society and ILEX respond to these challenges will be important in helping us understand the role of a professional association within an increasingly fluid legal marketplace. Furthermore, the thesis is seeking to address the relevance of the …
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Human rights law in Tunisia in the post-Arab Spring era
… Since the uprising in 2011, the changes in law, society and politics have continued. The efforts towards change including public participation, the coalition between civil society organisations and political parties have amalgamated successfully as demonstrated by and recognised in the …
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Violence, Legal Culture and Social Control: The Records of Scotland’s Justiciary Court, 1493–1558
… confirm and enhance existing arguments about law, society and administration in premodern Scotland. The language used to describe violent offences reveals that whether an act of violence was interpreted as a legitimate or illegitimate use of force depended heavily on context, brutality and …
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Girl talk : feminist rights discourse and the struggle for equality
The customs of Western society face increasing pressure as the "postmodern" notion that knowledge and reason are constructs of a discourse that suppresses some aspects of experience and highlights others, gains legitimacy. Feminists have seized this notion of discourse to challenge the way society …
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The semiotics of non-verbal communication in the attorney, client consultation process
In 2010, the Law Society of South Africa, expressed concern over the number of law graduates that were lacking in essential skills and they stressed that clients in legal matters are placed at risk if new practitioners are not properly equipped to assist them.1 Many lamented the academic nature of …
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The Impact of courtroom demeanour and non-verbal communication on the verdict
… about justice being done in South Africa. Society’s faith in the justice system is not as strong as it was before and matters are being taken on appeal all too frequently. In addition to this, the professional body for legal practioners1 (The Law Society of South Africa or LSSA) is …
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Mobilizing, Resisting, and Transforming Title IX: How College Students Experience Sexual Violence and Administrative Justice
… analysis of Title IX, critically exploring the law’s interaction with gender, power, and violence. Drawing on qualitative data from 42 public statements made by students sanctioned for sexual misconduct and 31 interviews with undergraduate students and Title IX professionals in higher education, …
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Governing bodies through space, governing space through bodies: Police power, planning, and race in Central Atlanta
… partnerships, and use frameworks from Law & Society literature to evaluate these institutions through theories of jurisdiction. I find that these diverse institutions provide legitimate forums through which the police communicate with the public and with other police institutions. They …
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Women in blue: Meaning and identity perspectives of policewomen within the South African Police Services in the Cape Town Metropolitan area.
… of gender and race in a male-dominated society. Policewomen in the SAPS face consistent and constant challenges, however, they continue to demonstrate resilience against mistreatment from colleagues, the public, and superiors. The study concluded that the experience of being a woman in …