Free legal aid

a comparative approach. Volume 2

The authors set the following research goals: 1) to define the concept of free legal aid, taking into consideration the standards of the Council of Europe (especially from the European Convention on Human Rights and soft law standards) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of ...

Juvenile Justice Systems

Poland-Brazil-Portugal

Juvenile Justice Systems outlines options for shaping the juvenile liability models, in the form of model-patterns: the welfare model, the justice model, the rehabilitative treatment model, the restorative justice model, and different mixed models, especially the so-called "4xD formula." This comparative work consists of 4 ...

Judicial review of administrative discretion

the influence of court decisions on administrative actions

The publication shows the impact of judicial decisions on the discretionary power of public administration. This issue is analysed in relation to the process of issuing individual decisions by the administration, which have a dominant influence on the sphere of rights and freedoms of man ...

Judicial interpretation of the 1997 Criminal Code provisions on self-defence

In this book the authors present and, more importantly, give their own assessment of judicial decisions interpreting the Criminal Code provisions currently in force on self-defence and the transgression of its limits. The authors have critically verified the empirical material of 88 Supreme Court, 194 ...

Enforcement of patents on geographically divisible inventions

an inquiry into the standard of substantive patent Law infringement in cross-border constellations

This work investigates the challenges of enforcement of patent rights in geographically divisible inventions. It considers aspects of technological progress which pose challenges to the established system of patent protection based on the territorial limitation of rights. The analysis focuses on substantive patent law, especially ...