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Constitutional rights to supervised drug injection facilities in Canada
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
On September 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered the government of Canada to continue to exempt Vancouver's supervised narcotic injection facility from Canada's criminal drug laws. The controversial clinic, known ...
Access to justice for women victims of domestic violence in the Republic of Macedonia
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
In the recent decades as a result of feminist efforts, significant progress in addressing the issue of domestic violence on the international scene, as well as, on the national level have been made. However, there are still ...
Transnational power transmission and international law
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Power transmission networks are crucial. Every country requires the means to transport and deliver energy, whether produced locally or in foreign countries. The paper deals with transnational power-transmission networks, ...
Reforms in triple talaq in the personal laws of Muslim states and the Pakistani legal system: Continuity versus change
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
This work analyses the reforms carried out in some of the Muslim states regarding the issue of triple divorce in one session. According to a majority of Sunni jurists, pronouncing the word “talaq” three times in succession, ...
Technology at the end of life: “Medical futility” and the Muslim PVS patient
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Advanced life-sustaining technologies can now prolong indeterminately the lives of patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). However, where the assistance rendered is not expected to restore consciousness, they are ...
Construction mediation as a developmental process
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
This paper seeks to argue that mediation has been hitherto conceived in the construction industry, and indeed by practitioners in other related disciplines such as property management, as largely a “problem-solving” ...
Intra-family violence or domestic violence, a domestic relationship or merely a case of sibling rivalry: Where to draw the line?
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
In a recent judgment by the South African Supreme Court of Appeal, Daffy v. Daffy, (659/2011) [2012] ZASCA 149; [28 September 2012] 4 All SA 607 (SCA); 2013 (1) SACR 42 (SCA) the question of what exactly constitutes a ...
Corporate liability for violating international law under The Alien Tort Statute: The corporation through the lens of globalization and privatization
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
The article addresses the question of whether the changing roles of “public actor” states and “private actor” corporations should impact the legal liability of corporations in international law. The classical paradigm ...
Bring the vessel to court: The unique feature of the action in rem in the admiralty law proceedings
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Admiralty law, one of the oldest fields of law, has developed distinctive and unique features that distinguish it from other fields. One of these characteristics originates from the commencement of litigation, where a claim ...
Survey of unreported cases of domestic violence in two heterogeneous communities in Nigeria
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Women in Nigeria are reluctant to report cases of domestic violence to the police. This study examines the magnitude of domestic violence in Nigeria. It also examines respondents' levels of education, culture, religion, ...