The insanity defense is a legal construct that excuses certain mentally ill defendants from legal responsibility for criminal behavior. This practice guideline has delineated the forensic psychiatric evaluation of defendants raising the insanity defense. The document describes acceptable forensic psychiatric practices. Where possible, standards of practice and ethical guidelines have been speci...

Abstract Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo was the International Criminal Court’s first case directly addressing command responsibility doctrine. As permanent international criminal court who can exercise jurisdiction over a majority of world’s nation states, its interpretation doctrine potentially an important development in law and opportunity to affirm legal commanders for their subordin...

The objective of this article is to formulate the definition notion disciplinary responsibility police officers, highlight and study features legal phenomenon in system individual European states. research was carried out on a complex general special scientific methods. In particular, used hermeneutic, logical method convergence from simple complex, logical-semantic, logical-legal, comparative-...

dar al-islam's population consists of muslims (majority), the people of the dhimma (non-muslim citizens of an islamic state known as the minority) and al-musta'min (an islamic classification for a non-muslim foreigner that enters muslim lands for less than a year and is legally protected by the muslim authority). the fact that public courts of islamic states have the jurisdiction to d...

BACKGROUND Trauma survivors often have to negotiate legal systems such as refugee status determination or the criminal justice system. METHODS & RESULTS We outline and discuss the contribution which research on trauma and related psychological processes can make to two particular areas of law where complex and difficult legal decisions must be made: in claims for refugee and humanitarian prot...

although our religious doctrines have given special importance to the execution of legal punishments and penalties for their conventional outcomes, the execution of legal punishments or their suspension in the age of occultation of the infallible imam (a.s.) has been one of the controversial issues in jurisprudence, to the extent that it has created two conflicting fronts; one, a group of disti...

By definition, an essential question of cyberlaw is to define when law will affect actions in cyberspace. Such law might be uniform, such as where nations have entered into a treaty or have adopted the same legal rule. Or, such law might be diverse, such as where nations adopt different legal rules. Diversity of law often does not matter for physical acts, such as where the criminal law of one ...

Australian surrogacy legislation punishes the pursuit of a commercial surrogacy arrangement as a criminal offence. Such legislation was first introduced in Victoria in 1986 and has since been applied in every Australian jurisdiction except for the Northern Territory. The current application of criminal law is based upon this 1980s policy which has never been subject to public debate. This artic...