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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"litigants"”.
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Procedural Postures: The Influence of Legal Change on Strategic Litigants and Judges
… fact, the potential for strategic behavior by litigants is often ignored by researchers due to difficulties in capturing such activity. To the extent that existing studies have focused on outcomes to the exclusion of litigant behavior, they have potentially produced biased results in …
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The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment and Previous Sexual Victimization in a Sample of Class Action Litigants
The present study examines the effects of sexual harassment on psychological outcomes in a sample of women involved in a sexual harassment class-action lawsuit (n = 492). Sexual harassment was found to predict symptoms of PTSD, general symptoms of anxiety, and cognitive schema related to trusting …
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Neuropsychological, functional and behavioural outcome and predictors of outcome in a sample of traumatic brain injury litigants
… in a sample of traumatic brain injured (TBI) litigants who were tested and interviewed both during litigation (at time 1, or T1) and 1 year or more after case settlement (at time 2, or T2). More specifically, my major goals were to assess (a) changes between TI and T2 on outcome variables such …
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Can the State be held accountable for water pollution? A critical analysis of legal alternatives available to prospective litigants
Water is considered to be one of the most essential of all natural resources 1 and its importance in the perpetuation of life is incontrovertible. The 'human poverty index' formulated by the United Nations Development Programme, lists a decent standard of living as one of the three essentials for …
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Fair trial and access to justice in South Africa how traditional tribunals cater to the needs of rural female litigants
… multiple legal systems, allowing urban and rural litigants to engage in forum shopping, by approaching formal courts or traditional tribunals in civil and criminal contexts. In the formal courts, rural litigants (especially women, as lower income earners) encounter exorbitantly high costs of …
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Assessing Differential Item Functioning Across Clinical and Community Samples in the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test
… Hospital as well as an analogue sample of civil litigants comprised of undergraduates at a large public Southwestern university. Results indicated DIF for nine M-FAST items, with five of the items more easily endorsed by criminal litigants and four of the items more easily endorsed by civil …
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
… the thesis shows that prodigality laws provided litigants with a flexible, multifaceted tool to prevent reckless financial mismanagement. Once laws began to criminalize wastefulness in the mid-sixteenth century, lawmakers, litigants, and judges used this concept to intervene in family affairs and …
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"Crimes against the Order of the Family, Public Morality, and Decency": Sexual Violence and Jurisprudence in Coahuila, Mexico, 1871-1931
… study focuses on how institutions, the law, and litigants of sexual crimes interpreted estupro (seduction/deflowering), rape, and incest crimes in the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila during 1871-1931. The dissertation explores the diverse ways that liberal legislation proved …
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The economics of patent litigation: an empirical analysis in the U.S. from 1996 to 2010
… States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and litigants' financial characteristics from the COMPUSTAT database. I present a framework for testing two types of models to explain the behavior of plaintiffs and defendants during the patent litigation process. I begin with a decision model to …
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Promoting the Recognition and Enforcement of Civil and Commercial Judgments: Lessons from the Experiences of South Africa and Nigeria
… Nigerian rules of private international law when litigants seek to enforce judgments obtained abroad. The South African or Nigerian court’s assessment of whether the foreign court heard the case in a fair manner sometimes produces a different outcome from that of the foreign court. This implies …
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Promoting alternative dispute resolution in the Massachusetts Land Court : current perceptions and use
… years. Each emotionally taxing case can cost litigants between $50,000- $150,000 to try, with no guarantee of winning. One promising option that would relieve the overload, reduce the cost to litigants, and give them control over the outcome is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). This is an …
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Climate Change and Human Rights. Exploring Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
… Its beginning focuses on uncovering the litigants’ incentives and legal position by studying the interconnectedness of climate change and human rights in their relevant international and regional frameworks. Following this analysis, which identifies the shortcomings of the UN Climate …
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The utility of the principle of intergenerational equity in strategic climate change litigation in South Africa: lessons from Colombia and Germany
… change litigation is, what the key issues for litigants are, and what successful strategies have been employed in this exciting and rapidly growing area of law. Next, two cases – one from Colombia and one from Germany – in which litigants successfully utilised the principle of intergenerational …
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Having Your Day in Court: The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment Litigation
… it appears to have exacerbated or perpetuated litigants' symptomology developed as a result of the harassment. Theoretical and practical implications for the role of litigation as well as other stimulus and individual variables in predicting harm are discussed.
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Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758
… is the relationship between married female litigants and those whom we may term quasi-legal actors: Individuals who were generally not legal professionals, but fulfilled a legal role as well as a social or personal role in the married female litigant’s life. Examining the law regulating …
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A Multi-Method Assessment Approach to the Detection of Malingered Pain: Association with the MMPI-2 Restructured Form
… Scale (RBS) to detect symptom exaggeration among litigants claiming chronic pain. Utilizing the Bianchini et al. (2005) multi-method criteria for Malingered Pain Related Disability (MPRD), patients were classified along a continuum ranging from incentive only to definite malingering. Malingering …
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Judicial Enforcers? Exploring Lower Federal Court Compliance in Regulating the Obscene
… to other pressures such as the types of litigants within the courtrooms as well as their local political environment. Furthermore, such judges are apt to form their own views about politics and legal policy and are often appointed by presidents who approve of their ideological leanings. …
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Family court: An analysis of a unified judicial system to serve the administration of justice for all juvenile and family matters
… system which provides better services to litigants by involving a teamwork approach, better utilization of community resources, and the development of alterative resolutions. The conclusion contains recommendations for improvements of this model.
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Legal representation and a Bill of Rights
… the two parties to the trial. The onus is on the litigants to advance their own case. It naturally follows that the strength of a party's case depends on the skill of the litigator.
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