This book aims to show that a legal expert system need not be based upon a complex model of legal reasoning in order to produce useful advice. It advocates a pragmatic approach to the design of legal expert systems—an approach based on the way in which lawyers deal with the law on a day-to-day basis.
This fourth edition of the well-established practitioner text sets out what constitutes an electronic signature; the form an electronic signature can take; and discusses the issues relating to evidence – illustrated by analysis of relevant case law and legislation from a wide range of common law and civil law jurisdictions.
Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights.
Read this document to understand activist methods that will further your activism, discover practical animal rights activities you can do and know what animal rights means and how it differs from other outlooks.
Bringing together previously disparate discussions on criminal responsibility from law, psychology, and philosophy, this book provides a close study of mental incapacity defences, analysing their development through historical cases to the modern era. It maps the shifting boundaries between normality and abnormality as constructed in law, arguing that ‘manifest madness’ – the distinct character of mental incapacity revealed by this interdisciplinary approach – has a broad significance for understanding the criminal law as a whole.
"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened." - John F. Kennedy"In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them...
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." - Jonathan Swift"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule...
Tricks of Trade - Memories of a Rogue Lawyerby Jacobus KotzeThe author said in his other book 'Mean Streets - Life in the Apartheid Police' that it is never good advice to see a lawyer for they are only good at taking your money and give long boring explanations on...