It has been analyzed the opinions of scholars and lawyers on definition concept “a child’s lawyer”. The author’s “child’s lawyer” formulated, which should be understood as a person who carries out legal activities grounds in accordance with procedure provided for by law, consists independent professional activity lawyer field defense, representation provision other types assistance to under 18 ...

The lawyer is standing at the gate to Heaven and St. Peter is listening to his sins. .. the list goes on for quite awhile. The lawyer objects and begins to argue his case. He admits all these things, but argues, "Wait, I've done some charity in my life also." St. Peter looks in his book and says, "Yes, I see. Once you gave a dime to a panhandler and once you gave an extra nickel to the shoeshin...

adjudication independence can be studied in two areas namely independency of judicial power and independency of judge. the first one is based on the separation of powers theory but judge independence means its freedom from parties and their attorneys and its independence in intern of judiciary power. this sense of independence has two objectives: 1) judge's freedom in applying the law to f...

In many European countries, providing a suspect in custody with legal aid before the first police interrogation is a heavily debated issue. In this paper, we report on an exploratory study on the use of coercion by the police and the use of the right to silence by suspects in 70 Dutch homicide cases and their relation to prior consultation and presence of a lawyer. Analysis of the data indicate...

* Richard Steinecke practises health law in Toronto and is the author of a book entitled A Complete Guide to the Regulated Health Professions Act which was published by Canada Law Book in July 1995. This article is not intended to provide legal advice. Please speak to your lawyer before using this information in any particular case. Maria took Anna for a drink after they had both testified. Mar...