The adversarialist approach to criminal justice places a premium on autonomy, efficiency and finality. It trusts that giving parties control will put reliable comprehensive evidence before the trial court. Where forensic science evidence is involved,…
Through a review of reported challenges this article explains how latent fingerprint evidence was routinely admitted and relied upon as proof of identity in criminal proceedings before its value and limitations were studied or understood. That it was…
In the present paper we will verify if and how the institutional guidelines on administrative document drafting of extra-EU countries, include recommendations on the use of visual elements to make the content of the institutional texts more…
Vulnerable categories are the most affected by legal issues and at the same time the ones who face more barriers in accessing legal and public information. The contributions for this special issue of JOAL deal with this matter presenting reflections,…
There is a substantive distinction between accessories who do, and those who do not,undertake to serve the beneficiaries of a fiduciary function. Where the access ofaccessories to beneficiary assets is limited, they are directly accountable as…
