Legal Aspects Regarding Liability for Shooting Down an Aircraft

Continuity and New Legal Aspects regarding the Nullity of Marriage

The New Romanian Civil code (Law no. 287 of 2009), that has entered into force on October 1, 2011, is an innovative, reforming code, both in respect of civil legal relations, as well as of legal relations of family law and of commercial law, aspects that are incorporated in its structure. With regard to the legal relations of family law, that naturally belong to the Civil code, the current regu...

Legal Status of Pre-Contractual Liability

The discussion about the person's liability for the actions attributable to him before the stage of contracting is a new debate that has been attracted the attention of legal circles. According to this debate, the person’s freedom of contracting does not implement the person’s freedom to ignore the rights and interest of other party. As a result, it would be possible that contracting person con...

Telemedicine: an Essential Requirement for the Health Care Providers, with Emphasis on Legal Aspects

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. These technologies allow communications between patient and medical staff with convenience as well as the transmission of medical, imaging and health informatics data from one site to another. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. A...

Legal Feature Product Liability for Medical Devices

Here we set out the European product liability regime as it applies to medical devices and examine key cases that indicate how the legislation is likely to be interpreted. Despite the fact that the strict liability regime has been in existence for many years, numerous issues have yet to be resolved and there continues to be a lack of harmonisation between the EU member states. We highlight a nu...

Legal Errors and Liability Insurance