In this paper we present ongoing work on speech recognition for the judicial domain, performed in the European project JUMAS (Judicial management for digital library semantics.) The specific challenges for courtroom speech recognition are discussed, and the development of speech recognition systems for Italian and Polish are described. The results achieved on the target domain are presented and...

introduction: to draw a general picture of the current iranian-law and shiah fiqh position as to the assisted reproduction: -whether allowed or not, - and, to show how and what changes could occur in this field. materials and methods: examination of the iranian legislation and judicial decisions, consideration of jurisprudential verdicts of the eminent shiah jurists and interpretation of the or...

The goal of this paper is to establish a robust methodology for forensic automatic speaker recognition (FASR) based on sound statistical and probabilistic methods, and validated using databases recorded in real-life conditions. The interpretation of recorded speech as evidence in the forensic context presents particular challenges. The means proposed for dealing with them is through Bayesian in...

EU institutions and member governments are committed to realising judicial cooperation as part of a strategy to guarantee and sustain security in the EU: the freedom, security and justice agenda. The three elements clash both in terms of their prioritisation, their mutual compatibility and their feasibility. The phrase judicial cooperation evokes ideals of value-free, neutral cooperation design...

Abstract The principle of proportionality plays a key role in shaping the principles tax law system, as it is an important element protection taxpayer’s rights. interpretation directive related to has doctrinal, normative, and jurisprudential character. It EU constitutional standard should become rule used on daily basis practice authorities. As general law, addressed legislative, executive, ju...

Logical models of legal reasoning often assume that norms give a complete description of their applicability conditions, an assumption which is too strong, due to the complexities and dynamics of the world. Norms cannot take into account all the possible conditions where they should or should not be applied, first of all because the legislator cannot consider all the possible contexts which are...

Abstract : How do Brazilian Supreme Court Justices use the decision-making strategy of judicial self-restraint? Judicial self-restraint is a whose fundamental premise sustain that, if possible, any should avoid ruling on constitutional issues, and resolve cases before them other (usually statutory) grounds to hard questions that would come with interpretation. When asked decide constitutionalit...