Women’s disengagement from legal proceedings for intimate partner violence in southern Spain: Variables related to legal proceedings

This article studies the relationship between a set of variables related to the legal process and women’s disengagement from legal proceedings against their (ex)partners in Southern Spain. A total of 345 women answered a questionnaire. Results evidenced that request for a protection order (PO), granting such PO, imprisonment of the offender, and women’s perception of who decided during the process were significantly related to disengagement (medium effect size). In addition, a logistic regression model was developed to predict disengagement with two variables: granting a PO and women’s perception of who decided. Results are interpreted in terms of the necessity that the judicial system gives support, protects, and provides women with opportunities to participate in the recovery process.Junta de Andalucía 1071/0453Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (España) FPU15/0037

Broken Promises: The Case of Mothers of Srebrenica vs. The State of the Netherlands

Critical discourse analysis of the legal proceedings of the Mothers of Srebrenica case brought against the UN and the Dutch government. This analysis explores the nature of culpability and blame-making among international actors

‘No, niente appello!’: How De Gasperi Sent Guareschi to Prison

The article focuses on the legal proceedings between Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi and editor Giovannino Guareschi at the Milan tribunal in Italy. Guareschi was convicted of libel counted upon by the British evidence. He was accused of forgery of the letters that he reproduced against De Gasperi

Materialities of legal proceedings

The author explores materialities as pre-established and co-producing features of criminal proceedings. This is done by discussing courtrooms, files and stories in relation to English Crown Court hearings. The three materialities gain significance in the course of the court hearing, but do not derive from it. They exceed the course of talk-in-court. Once the hearing started, the pre-established materialities can be referred to but not simply modified. Materialities, in this line, provide stability and guidance for the hearing. They facilitate, purify and condense it. However, their temporal separation causes problems for those who run the show. Materialities can be employed but not fully integrated. Unwelcome parts do, at times, disturb, disrupt and complicate the current dealings

Policy and Practice Brief: Planning a Structured Settlement for Social Security Beneficiaries

This Policy and Practice Brief will describe how the various SSA income and resource rules intersect with awards and/or settlements from legal proceedings. In addition, this Brief will provide a general overview of the common mechanisms utilized by trust and estates attorneys and other financial planners to protect an individual’s continuing eligibility for public benefits

Процесуальні правовідносини в сфері вирішення трудових спорів

Анализируются процессуальные правоотношения по рассмотрению трудовых споров. Дается общее понятие процессуальных правоотношений по рассмотрению трудовых споров, раскрыты основные принципы, определяющие указанные правоотношения, дана сравнительная характеристика основных теорий деления процессуальных правоотношений по видам. Затронута проблема дальнейшего совершенствования законодательства в части законодательного закрепления понятия процессуальных правоотношений по рассмотрению трудовых споров.This article is given over to legal proceedings in the field of consideration of labor disputes. More specifically, the article explains the general notion of legal proceedings in the field of consideration of labor disputes, reveals general principles that determine the specified legal relations. Moreover, it is given a comparative analysis of basic theories concerning the legal proceedings breakdown by types. In addition the article touches on the aspects of successive legislation improvement in terms of legislative consolidation of legal proceedings in the field of consideration of labor disputes

Housing Justice: What the Experts are Saying on New Yorkers' Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings

There is growing momentum for establishing a right to counsel in New York City for low-income people who face losing their homes in legal proceedings. The Right to Counsel NYC Coalition formed in 2014 to advocate for the right to counsel and its ranks have been steadily growing. New York City's political leadership has been outspoken on the importance of counsel in eviction proceedings and is taking major concrete steps to expand the availability of counsel. These include greatly increased funding for civil legal services and the City Council's passage, on May 27, 2015, of Intro 736, which establishes a first-ever Office of the Civil Justice Coordinator. Most importantly, the New York City Council and the de Blasio Administration are considering legislation that would make New York City the first jurisdiction in the United States to establish a right to counsel for low income people who face losing their homes in legal proceedings. The legislation, Intro 214, introduced by Councilmembers Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson and co-sponsored by a wide majority of the members of the Council, would (with anticipated amendments) guarantee counsel to households below 200% of federal poverty guidelines in both eviction and foreclosure proceedings

Length of legal proceedings and the pilot judgment procedure of the European Court of Human Rights: new challenges and problems

The article examines issues related to the impact of the pilot judgment procedure of the ECtHR on the problems of excessive length of legal proceedings in national legal systems. A brief overview of some of the pilot judgments adopted in relation to Respondent States is provided, and an assessment of the effectiveness of the general measures taken is given. Conclusions are drawn about the criteria for determining reasonable terms of legal proceedings in the practice of the ECtHR. As recommendations, a number of measures are proposed that will help states eliminate the excessive length of legal proceedings