Law : Civil Law

Presents a comprehensive description of the Asbestos litigation, the longest-running mass tort litigation in U.S. history. is the longest-running mass tort litigation in U.S. history. more...

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This book is an important contribution to the current lively debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. This debate, which was initiated by the work of John Crook in the 1960’s, has had a profound impact upon the study of law and history and has created sharply divided opinions on the extent to which law may be said to be a product of the society that created it. This work is a modest attempt to provide a balanced assessment of the various points of view. The chapters within this book have been specifically arranged to represent the debate. It contains an introductory chapter by Alan Watson, whose views on the relationship between law and society have caused some controversy. In the remaining chapters a distinguished international group of scholars address this debate by focusing on studies of law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure. This book does not purport to provide a complete survey of Roman private law in light of Roman society. Its primary aim is to address specific areas of the law with a view to contributing to the larger debate. more...

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Civil jury behavior has consequences not only for litigants and attorneys (and the jurors themselves), but also for society as a whole. It goes without saying that one of the jury??'s major goals, if not the major goal, is to mete out justice. In civil cases, justice is served primarily through the awarding of compensatory (to provide restitution for injury) and punitive damages (to provide punishment for wrongdoing). However, ongoing policy debates regarding tort reform have led both legal analysts and empirical researchers to reevaluate the civil jury??'s role in meting out civil justice. Some reform advocates have called for removing certain types of cases (e.g., highly technical ones relying exclusively on expert testimony, such as malpractice or antitrust litigation) or certain types of judgments (e.g., punitive damages) from the jury??'s purview; yet much of the policy debate has proceeded in the relative absence of data on what the effects of such reforms would be. For example, a number of states have enacted reforms regarding punitive damages and damages for pain and suffering, such as caps or ratio scales, on the assumption that these measures will yield more just outcomes. In this context, "more just" can mean a variety of things, but centers largely on greater predictability of awards, less variability, and a closer adherence of awards to legally relevant factors (e.g., the severity of the harm in compensatory damages, and the degree of reprehensibility in punitive damages). A number of post-reform studies have demonstrated that contrary to expectation, tort reform may not have the desired effects. In addressing these issues, the present volume will take an empiricalapproach, relying on archival and experimental data. It will be at the vanguard of the debate and will provide information relevant to the state and national civil justice systems. more...

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This new edition of a well-established book is a timely response to the enactment during the past 3 to 5 years of new rules of civil procedure which are now in force, or are soon coming into force in the vast majority of Caribbean jurisdictions. The third edition has been substantially revised and augmented to take into account the revision of the rules and covers the new rules in detail. The book also provides coverage of the recent case-law coming out of Jamaica and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), under the new rules of civil procedure. This book is essential reading for students of Commonwealth Caribbean law as well as anyone wishing to get to grips with the new rules of civil procedure. more...

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Das Bankgeheimnis schützt alle Informationen, die der Bank vom Kunden anvertraut werden. Es garantiert allerdings keine Anonymität gegenüber den Strafverfolgungsbehörden. § 38 Abs 2 Z 1 BWG ermöglicht es den Kreditinstituten bankgeheime Unterlagen herauszugeben, ohne ihre Geheimnispflicht zu verletzen. Sind die Voraussetzungen des § 145a StPO erfüllt, sind sie zur Herausgabe der Unterlagen verpflichtet. Neben § 38 Abs 2 Z 1 BWG werden die in § 145a StPO normierten Ermittlungsmethoden wie Identitätsermittlung, Kontoauskunft, Kontoöffnung und Überwachung erläutert. Zwangsmaßnahmen, die mit dieser Thematik in engem Zusammenhang stehen, wie z.B. Hausdurchsuchung, Kontosperre und die Vernehmung von Mitarbeitern eines Kreditinstituts als Zeugen, ergänzen die Thematik. Eine ausführliche Erläuterung der Rechtshilfenormen, die durch die verstärkte internationale Zusammenarbeit der Strafverfolgungsbehörden immer wichtiger werden, und ein Ausblick auf das Strafprozessreformgesetz 2008 runden die Darstellung ab. more...

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