Judicial Competence and Fundamental Rights

The Scales of Justice in Peru: Judicial Reform and Fundamental Rights

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

Medical Negligence and Consumer Rights: Emerging Judicial Trends

The medical profession is one of the noblest professions in the world. However, corporatisation and commercialization of medical profession has made it like any other business and the medical profession is increasingly being guided by the profit motive rather than that of service. Such a situation gave rise to unethical practices and negligence. When business motive comes to the force, service ...

Apple v. Franklin: An Essay on Technology and Judicial Competence

Fundamental rights at work : Overview and prospects

Editorial V The ILO Declaration and the supervisory mechanisms Core labour standards: A level playing field for all countries, Relevance of fundamental principles and rights and the dynamics of international labour standards, by Jean-Claude Javillier 4 Fundamental rights at work: A greater role for trade unions, Trade union rights at the dawn of the millennium: An overview, by Janek Kuczkiewicz...