The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of agreement on psychiatric diagnosis in written evidence provided by experts in serious criminal matters in Australia. We found good or very good inter-rater agreement on the diagnoses of acquired brain injury, schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis, substance-induced psychotic disorder, and intellectual disability. There was moderate agreement on t...

The purpose of this article is to present possible solutions the problem access digital contents left by a deceased user Internet services under different European legal systems. Discussion issue from comparative perspective will allow drawing general conclusions about direction de lege lata in which legislation heading. In my opinion there should be dedicated provisons introduced into polish c...

Abstract It is well known that experts’ opinion and testimony take on a decisive weight in judicial fact-finding, raising issues perplexities have long been under scholarly scrutiny. In this paper I argue expert’s opinions much wider impact legal decision-making. particular, they may generate problem will call ‘the opacity of law’. A text, such as statute or regulation, becomes opaque if author...

Theoretically speaking, among topics that need to be covered throughout the elementary school years, legal ones loom large. In order to determine the extent to which this coverage is actually present in elementary school textbooks, a set of 17 such books from among 51 in total, deemed appropriate for such matters to be covered in, was selected and content analyzed utilizing concepts related to ...

legal terms are as heritage of civilization and arising out of social developments of nations. however, public order in international law is required in international instruments and is cited repeatedly by international tribunals and authors but still have a vague concept in practice. what is studied in this article is analyze of concept and nature of international public order in considering v...

Recently, testing and diagnostic learning systems have been considered as a useful tool for analyzing students’ learning problems and giving helpful learning suggestions to them to improve their learning performance. Among the existing methods, a multi-expert approach has introduced a set of rules to integrate test item-concept relationship opinions given by multiple experts. However, when inte...

As David and Brierley (1968) pointed out, each political society in the world has its own law. In fact, it frequently happens that several laws coexist within the same state. Moreover, law is not static; it is in a state of flux, of evolution. The development of the law is shaped by logic, history, custom and utility, as well as the accepted standards of right conduct (Cardozo, 1921). It is the...

Samia’s father had just passed away. His death was unexpected, and her grieving family was torn over what could seem a simple dilemma: should they fulfill his wish of going to Mecca for pilgrimage or honor his memory by giving money to the poor? The family was divided. “What does our religion say?” they wanted to know. I met Samia on her way back from Al-Azhar where she had gone to consult the ...