hearings, according to the general principles, appear in open courts. therefore, confidential and private hearings are exeptional by legal stipulation. this exeption is depicted and stipulated in arbitration. the charactristics of arbitration are being confidential and private. these two are main points for reterring to arbitration. in jurisprudence, the consensus is only on the private aspect ...

PURPOSE Empirical research regarding potential risks and benefits of children's participation in the legal system generally, and in the child dependency legal system in particular, is sparse and mostly characterized by small studies without comparison groups. The current study was designed to address the following questions regarding children's participation in dependency court hearings: (1) Is...

ministrative expenses would be $1,433 million. Receipts and expenditures for that year, under present and proposed legislation combined, would be $4,018 million and $2,300 million, respectively, making possible the acquisition of new securities amounting to $1,718 million. The total assets of the trust fund are expected to reach $13,033 million by June 30, 1950, and $14,751 million by June 30, ...

BACKGROUND There is some evidence that when mental health commitment hearings are held in accordance with therapeutic jurisprudence principles they are perceived as less coercive, and more just in their procedures leading to improved treatment adherence and fewer hospital readmissions. This suggests an effect of the hearing on therapeutic relationships. We compared working alliance and interper...

As this is written, military review hearings at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are under way to determine whether any of the individual detainees has been wrongly classified as an "illegal combatant" by the Department of Defense, and is, thus, eligible for repatriation. The men facing these hearings have been held, often in solitary confinement, for up to 21⁄2 years and have n...

The human reasoning process used in conducting arguments to resolve conflicts and reach a decision is an interdisciplinary study. Modelling argumentation has a great impact on the development of theories and applications in AI especially in critical domains that involve richness of reasoning such as Law. Therefore, argumentation has been recognised as a core topic in AI and Law. Developing comp...

Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), provided welfare participants with a potentially potent tool for challenging the government welfare bureaucracy by requiring pre-termination hearings before welfare benefits were discontinued or reduced. In 1996, with the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the...