Employment tribunals (ETs) (formerly named industrial tribunals) were first created in the 1960s under the Industrial Training Act. The current level of activity is .100 000 cases that are commenced each year, though less than a third of those come to trial. Principal complaints are of unfair dismissal and claims under the antidiscrimination laws, which now extend to discrimination on grounds o...

We aimed to outline the profile of medical professionals in Brazil who have violated the deontological norms set forth in the ethics code of the profession, and whose cases were judged by the higher tribunal for medical ethics between 2010 and 2016. This survey was conducted using a database formed from professional ethics cases extracted from the plenary of the medical ethics tribunal of the F...

In mid-2014, there was global media coverage of a decision by the New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal, heralded as the first legal recognition of ‘climate change refugees’. Despite the hype, the Tribunal had made no such finding. The case concerned a family of four from the small Pacific island State of Tuvalu, who argued, among other things, that the effects of climate change—in pa...

Experimental activity is traditionally identified with testing the empirical implications or numerical simulations of models against data. In critical reaction to the ‘tribunal view’ on experiments, this essay will show the constructive contribution of experimental activity to the processes of modeling and simulating. Based on the analysis of a case in fluid mechanics, it will focus specificall...

EMPLOYERS ACROSS the UK are expected to review the demands they place on staff following a landmark employment tribunal victory last week by nurses Christine Clunie and Alison Hale.

The excavation of mass graves provides information and documentation for both human rights work and for forensic medico-legal investigations. Medico-legal documentation for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is a major reason for recent excavation of large mass graves in these countries. The mass grave ...

Abstract The contribution aims at analysing the role of international solidarity movements in seeking justice for war crimes against women. Through example ‘comfort women’ case, article examines ways which these have used law instruments and institutions to promote idea an individual right reparation as a means by victims can obtain justice. Two specific legal features this case show movements’...

TheUK governmentmust make public the transition risk register drawn up by officials outlining the dangers posed by changes to the NHS in England in its health bill, the Information Rights Tribunal has ruled. The tribunal has dismissed the Department of Health’s appeal against a decision by the information commissioner that it must release the register after a Freedom of Information Act request ...