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This volume brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors consider the challenges faced by the exoneration movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems associated with investigating, proving, and defining 'innocence', and theories of reform. These issues are investigated from a multi-disciplinary perspective and with the aim of improving the American criminal justice system when it is faced with its most harrowing sight: an innocent defendant.
Judicial error --- False imprisonment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Abuse of process --- Imprisonment, False --- Wrongful imprisonment --- Wrongful incarceration --- Imprisonment --- Malicious prosecution --- Offenses against the person --- Torts
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What limits the genetic choices parents make for their children? Is it okay to select the sex of our children, or for deaf parents to select deaf children? In this second edition Davis argues that parental reproductive autonomy should be limited by respect for the future autonomy of the children created by these measures.
Genetic counseling. --- Health counseling --- Genetic disorders --- Genetic screening --- Reproductive technology --- Sex preselection. --- Wrongful life. --- Prevention. --- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink reveal the distinctive role that gender dynamics so often play in the miscarriage of justice. Examining more than 160 cases involving such charges as homicide, child abuse, and drug trafficking, the authors explore systemic failures in both policing and prosecution. They also highlight the intersecting roles of gender and race. Demonstrating how women encounter circumstances that are qualitatively different than those of men, they illuminate unique challenges facing women in the criminal justice system.
Judicial error --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- False imprisonment --- Women prisoners --- Prosecutorial misconduct --- Misconduct, Prosecutorial --- Legal ethics --- Prisoners --- Abuse of process --- Imprisonment, False --- Wrongful imprisonment --- Wrongful incarceration --- Imprisonment --- Malicious prosecution --- Offenses against the person --- Torts --- Conviction of the innocent --- Convictions, Erroneous --- Convictions, Mistaken --- Convictions, Wrongful --- Criminal justice, Errors of --- Erroneous convictions --- Errors of criminal justice --- Innocent, Conviction of the --- Justice, Miscarriage of --- Miscarriage of justice --- Mistaken convictions --- Wrongful convictions --- Justice, Administration of --- Trials
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"This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Chosŏn court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant, multifaceted societal and legal cultures of early modern Korea. Sun Joo Kim is the Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History at Harvard University. Jungwon Kim is assistant professor of Korean history at Columbia University; 'This book provides an extremely rare view into social interactions among people of quite different classes in Chosŏn Korea. Points of interest abound'--Robert E. Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis; 'This is an important contribution that significantly advances our knowledge of nineteenth-century Korean legal history. The translated cases shine by being able to introduce daily struggles of non-elites and illustrate the complex dynamics of the judiciary system during the last century of the Chosŏn dynasty'--Jisoo Kim, George Washington University"--
Wrongful death --- Court records --- Courts --- Law --- Social classes --- History --- History --- Social aspects --- History --- History --- Korea --- Korea --- History --- Social conditions
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The volume focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. The objective is to examine areas of convergence and divergence in the academic and practical treatment of damages issues in the US and EU. Many of the chapters in the volume are drawn from the papers and discussions generated at the Trans-Atlantic Dialogue meetings of the National Association of Forensic Economics that began in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004. That meeting focused on the development of the 'Ogden' multipliers for calculating damages mandated for consideration by UK Courts in 1999. The 2005 meetings (Dublin, Ireland) centred on Markov methodologies used in the US for generating work-life tables and their adoption into damages multipliers, punitive damages, and the process of Irish tort reform. In 2006 discussions in Florence, Italy, focused on methods for calculating non-economic damages in the US and EU as well as the process of harmonization of tort law within the EU. Most recently, the 2007 discussions in Barcelona, Spain, dealt with comparisons of scheduled damages systems in the US and the EU.
Damages. --- Personal injuries. --- Wrongful death. --- Death by wrongful act --- Injuries (Law) --- Liability for personal injuries --- Personal injuries --- Damages --- Measure of damages --- Law and legislation --- Homicide --- Torts --- Accident law --- Employers' liability --- Compensation (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Set-off and counterclaim --- Negligence --- Law --- Personal injury. --- Torts. --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Reasonable care (Law)
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Mason looks at the legal response to those aspects of the troubled pregnancy which require or involve medico-legal intervention. The unwanted pregnancy is considered particularly in the light of the Abortion Act 1967, s.1(1)(d) and the related action for so-called wrongful birth due to faulty ante-natal care. The unexpected or uncovenanted birth of a healthy child resulting from failed sterilisation is approached through an analysis of the seminal case of McFarlane and associated cases involving disability in either the neonate or the mother. The disabled neonate's right to sue for its diminished life is discussed and the legal approach to the management of severe congenital disease is analysed - thus following Baroness Hale in believing that care of the newborn is an integral part of pregnancy. Aspects are considered from historical and comparative perspectives, including coverage of experience in the USA, the Commonwealth and Europe.
Human reproduction --- Abortion --- Sterilization (Birth control) --- Wrongful life. --- Newborn infants --- Wrongful life --- Medical laws and legislation --- Sex and law --- Infants (Newborn) --- Neonates --- Newborns (Infants) --- Infants --- Neonatology --- Birth, Wrongful --- Liability for prenatal diagnosis --- Liability for unwanted pregnancy --- Prenatal diagnosis, Liability for --- Unwanted pregnancy, Liability for --- Wrongful birth --- Wrongful conception --- Wrongful pregnancy --- Medical personnel --- Sexual sterilization --- Sterilization, Sexual --- Voluntary sterilization --- Contraception --- Generative organs --- Infertility --- Abortion, Induced --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Human physiology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive health --- Law and legislation. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Malpractice --- Surgery --- Law --- General and Others --- Human reproduction - Law and legislation --- Abortion - Law and legislation --- Sterilization (Birth control) - Law and legislation --- Newborn infants - Legal status, laws, etc --- Human reproduction - Law and legislation - Great Britain --- Abortion - Law and legislation - Great Britain --- Sterilization (Birth control) - Law and legislation - Great Britain --- Wrongful life - Great Britain --- Newborn infants - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain
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Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival research
Mass burials --- Genocide --- Mass murder --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- War Crimes --- Killing --- Wrongful Death --- Death, Wrongful --- Deaths, Wrongful --- Homicides --- Killings --- Murders --- Wrongful Deaths --- Crime, War --- Crimes, War --- War Crime --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Problem, Social --- Problems, Social --- Social Problem --- Multicide --- Murder, Mass --- Mass graves --- Mass burials. --- Genocide. --- Mass murder. --- Murder --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Burial --- Homicide --- War Crimes. --- history. --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- History --- Human remains --- Ethics --- Violence --- Destruction --- Exhumation --- Auschwitz concentration camp --- Cremation --- Serbs
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This title offers a rich insight into the law of torts and will be of broad interest to those working in legal and moral philosophy. It has contributions from all over the world and represents the state-of-the art in tort theory.
Torts. --- Law --- Philosophy. --- Jurisprudence --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law)
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Drugs, sex and a pack of unscrupulous men circling, circling - it was always going to get ugly but no-one foresaw the tragic death of a young woman.
Australians --- Drugs --- Drug overdose --- Overdosage of drugs --- Overdose of drugs --- Poisoning --- Medication errors --- Aussies --- Ethnology --- Overdose. --- Overdosage --- Dosage --- Brimble, Dianne. --- Accidental poisoning --- Trials --- Victims of crimes --- Wrongful death
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Torts --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law)
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