Going to Court, Internationally

Vulnerable patients going to court: a psychiatrist's guide to special measures

There have been significant changes to how vulnerable people are treated in the court system, including the introduction of special measures to support people both as witness and as accused. This paper summarises the use of special measures and their application to people with mental health diagnoses or cognitive impairment.

Internationally Correlated

Stock returns are characterized by extreme observations, jumps that would not occur under the smooth variation typical of a Gaussian process. We find that jumps are prevalent in most countries. This has been noticed before in some countries, but there has been little investigation of whether the jumps are internationally correlated. Their possible inter-correlation is important for investors be...

Thinking Internationally

International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Initiative to initiate investigations

The main purpose of the establishment of the International Criminal Court is to investigate and prosecute international perpetrators of crimes, so that these individuals are not left without bureaucracy. To accomplish this, the Prosecutor of the Court has a tremendous duty. Selection of the situation and initiation of its research and its initial review is done according to reports, documents, ...

Court responses to Tarasoff statutes.

Twenty-three states have enacted Tarasoff statutes applicable to psychiatrists. Since the first such statute was enacted in California in 1985, a significant number of courts in states with this and similar statutes have reviewed Tarasoff-type claims. This article reviews courts' analyses in 76 such cases. There were five basic categories identified, including cases that (I) did not reference t...