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Redefining Harm, Reimagining Remedies And Reclaiming Domestic Violence Law, Margaret E. Johnson
Redefining Harm, Reimagining Remedies And Reclaiming Domestic Violence Law, Margaret E. Johnson
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Civil domestic violence laws do not effectively address and redress the harms suffered by women subjected to domestic violence. The Civil Protective Order (“CPO”) laws should offer a remedy for all domestic abuse with an understanding that domestic violence subordinates women. These laws should not remedy only physical violence or criminal acts. All forms of abuse — psychological, emotional, economic, and physical — are interrelated. Not only do these abuses cause severe emotional distress, physical harm, isolation, sustained fear, intimidation, poverty, degradation, humiliation, and coerced loss of autonomy, but, as researchers have demonstrated, most domestic violence is the fundamental operation …
Contract Law – The Remedies: Towards Codification Of The Civil Law, Dr. Yehuda Adar, Prof. Gabriela Shalev
Contract Law – The Remedies: Towards Codification Of The Civil Law, Dr. Yehuda Adar, Prof. Gabriela Shalev
Yehuda Adar Dr.
-This Book is in Hebrew-
The English Fox In The Louisiana Civil Law Chausse-Trappe: Civil Law Concepts In The English Language; Comparativists Beware!, Alain Levasseur, Vicenc Feliu
The English Fox In The Louisiana Civil Law Chausse-Trappe: Civil Law Concepts In The English Language; Comparativists Beware!, Alain Levasseur, Vicenc Feliu
Vicenç Feliú
The Avant-Projet of the French Law Obligations and the French Law of Prescriptions, which we will cite as the Projet-Catala, is a monumental undertaking to modernize Parts III and IV of Book Three of the French Civil Code, “Obligations,” and to continue the work of Jean Carbonnier who demonstrated “in transfiguring the first Book” that it was possible to “rehabilitate” the Code of 1804 “without damaging its structure or form.” “The program mobilized thirty-four persons” under the sponsorship of the Association Henri Capitant and was presented in the form of a “Rapport à Monsieur le Garde des Sceaux” in September …
Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition: A Primer On The Use (And Abuse) Of Ex Parte Proceedings In Civil Cases, Robert Currie
Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition: A Primer On The Use (And Abuse) Of Ex Parte Proceedings In Civil Cases, Robert Currie
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On any ex parte application, the utmost good faith must be observed. That requires full and frank disclosure of all material facts known to the applicant or counsel that could reasonably be expected to have a bearing on the outcome of the application. Because counsel for the applicant is asking the judge to invoke a procedure that runs counter to the fundamental principle of justice that all sides of a dispute should be heard, counsel is under a super-added duty to the court and other parties to ensure that as balanced a consideration of the issue is undertaken as is …