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Labeled ‘foreign agents,’ ‘undesirable,’ and threatened with closure, pressure groups mull creating a union to protect their common interests.
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Labeled ‘foreign agents,’ ‘undesirable,’ and threatened with closure, pressure groups mull creating a union to protect their common interests.
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Bratislav Gasic was dismissed over his comment to a journalist.
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Bibliography „Srebrenica – remembrance for the future“ written regarding anniversaries of 20 years of genocide in Srebrenica. It included 100 bibliographical records (monographs, non-book materials, articles and contributions in continuing resource and proceedings) which are documents of genocide over Bosniacs in Srebrenica in July 1995. One part of publications explains events from war in Srebrenica from 1992 till 1995 with the aim to understand all the events which were done before tragedy in Srebrenica. Chosen bibliographical records are products of database searching of National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the union bibliographic/catalogue database COBIB.BH. Index of the authors is contented in bibliography.
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A recently released report shows that both the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are torturing civilians.
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The paper concerns the controversy that over the years has grown around the content of Art. 52,section 2, of the Code of Medical Ethics. The introduction of this regulation into the medicaldeontological code has bound doctors to the principle of professional loyalty. Some consideredthis solution expressed a misunderstood solidarity of medical circles. On the other hand, this reg-ulation structured mutual relations between medical practitioners and set standards of mutual re-spect. The paper analyzes how this controversial regulation is seen in the light of the rulings ofthe Constitutional Tribunal and the European Court of Human Rights. The outcome of this anal-ysis is support for such interpretation of the regulation as says that in cases involving this article,medical courts should conduct a thorough investigative procedure to reveal whether the accusa-tions in the complaint are true. It is also stated that the interpretation of Art. 52, section 2, of theCode of Medical Ethics should assume that the notion of ‘discrediting’ shall signify a public statement which defies the truth or is not related to the protection of public interest, and its onlyor main purpose is to subvert the authority of another medical practitioner.
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The paper reviews the decisions of the Supreme Medical Court in 2007. The selected verdicts aretreated as case studies in the interpretation of regulations on proceedings pertaining to the professional responsibility of medical practitioners. The verdicts presented in the paper concern suchissues as the formal requirements of an application for penalty, the motion to exclude an SMCmember from the panel, investigative proceedings, the opinion of expert witnesses, the definitionof continued offence (delictum continuatum), the rights of the injured party, the right of defense,the principle of free appraisal of evidence, faulty verdicts, penalties, the statute oflimitations, and the reopening of a case and its costs. An analysis of the verdicts allows us to concludethat the standards of SMC decisions are rising.
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The article presents the jurisdiction adjudicated by the Supreme Court (SC) in 2015, concerning professional liability of the physicians. The bulk of the cases resulted in dismissal of final appeals, lodged by the defendants, as the Supreme Court had found them patently groundless. In one of the cases the SC quashed the judgements hitherto made (that is, a decision of the Supreme Medical Court, and thereby the altered ruling of a Regional (inferior) Medical Court), and consequently terminated the proceedings, owing to limitation of punish ability of a professional offence, if the offence was committed 5 years or more ago. The case is acknowledged as a failure of the system of corporate judicature. In two subsequent cases the SC was compelled to make judgements which invoked the principle of suspending a Medical Court’s action if a parallel penal procedure was pending against the same physician, on disciplinary charges.
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The belief that the healing process is inseparable from moral norms, which define relations between individual and his or her surroundings, visibly reaches ages much earlier than the times of the oldest civilizations. The ancient proverb says: “To understand the present, you need to understand the past.” And although neither Chinese nor Indian, nor the Greek and Roman historians (except Galen) never thought about turn to the history of medicine, making it a separate object of research, today we have a sufficient amount of historical sources, to investigate the ancient evolution of ethical ideas related to the art of healing.
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The law of collective proceedings for clearing off depts which replaces the former bankruptcy law pursues an economic objective the reason why it carries certain exceptions to the common procedure law. As such, the judge of collective proceedings has powers ofinitiative in the institution and conduct of the trial. He can thus of his own initiative open the collective proceeding. The aim of this study is to confront the judge's office powers with the cardinal principles of the trial. The expected result should help verify the compatibility of those powers with the requirements of a fair trial. A hypothesis emerges that automatically powers that deviate some what to the cardinal principles of the trial, are justified by the aim of safe guarding collective interests pursued by the insolvency judge.
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The much-criticized practice is slowing dwindling under the constant glare of publicity, but estimates put the number of annual workers at from 500,000 to 1 million.
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Despite recent release of 23 prisoners by separatist forces, Ukraine says many more being held, as well as political prisoners in Russia.
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Post-communist leader Ion Iliescu’s 1990 crackdown on protestors led to several deaths.
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This article is about problems involving registration of personal status. Especially we want to show problems which are connected with data inserted in act of birth and act of death, and how we can change this data. Furthermore we also described Superintendent Registrar as a person who is responsible for registration of personal status. Additionally we bring up a problem regarding change of sexes and effects which are caused by this changes in administrative law.
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This article is about problematic aspects of legal status of the special commission – Committee for Adjudication of Medical Events. First of all very important issues which are to broach in article is character of matters which are subject of proceedings conducted by these committees and legal nature of these proceedings. The author analyses that this special committees are or not judicial authorities. In the end the author conclude, that Committees for Adjudication of Medical Events are quasi – judicial authority.
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Safety is of course a vital human need and although it is not a right expressed by the legislator directly in the Constitution, the Basic Law treats about safety several times in different contexts and meanings. Through the prism of the use of direct coercive measures and firearms, safety is seen in two ways. On the one hand there are measures factors for ensuring public safety and order, on the other hand their use in fundamental breach of personal security of individuals. These goods, collective and individual, should be balanced in such way that security as a human right is protected and respected in a democratic state ruled by law.
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The paper addresses the issue of moral status of non-human animals and their moral and legal rights. First of all, two most prominent views arguing for moral significance of animals are discussed. Peter Singer’s utilitarian view is that animals are sentient beings and therefore deserve equal consideration of their interests. Next, Tom Regan’s standpoint is that many animals have inherent value as the experiencing subjects of a life, and consequently an equal right to be treated with respect. This is followed by a discussion about legislation and legal practice in our country and abroad. Finally, it is argued that animals should have at least some basic rights guaranteed by the law.
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The judgments delivered by the European Court of Human Rights in Al-Nashiri v. Poland and Husayn (Abu Zubaydah) v. Poland highlight the potential tension that may arise between states’ broad reliance on national security grounds to withhold disclosure of secret files and compliance with their obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. The present article examines the above-mentioned judgments, focusing, in particular, on how (and to what extent) the withholding of secret information may infringe on the right to the truth and, as far as proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights are concerned, the state’s duty to cooperate with it.
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