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Laws, Volume 11, Issue 5

2022 October - 15 articles

Cover Story: We study statistical aspects of the case of the British nurse Ben Geen, convicted for 17 attacks on his patients during December 2013–February 2014. We note parallels with the cases of nurses Lucia de Berk (the Netherlands) and Daniela Poggiali (Italy), in both of which an initial conviction for multiple murders of patients was overturned after the reopening of the case. We pay the most attention to the investigative processes by which data, and not just statistical data, are generated; namely, the identification of past cases in which the nurse under suspicion might have been involved. We argue that the investigation and prosecution of such cases are vulnerable to many cognitive biases and errors of reasoning in terms of uncertainty. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,433 Views
33 Pages

19 October 2022

In the tradition of legal writing about landmark intellectual property cases, this paper provides an in-depth case study and analysis of an important copyright conflict during the COVID-19 crisis. The Internet Archive established the National Emergen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,670 Views
26 Pages

19 October 2022

The quest for safe, orderly and regular migration underpins the UN Global Compact for Migration (GCM) and translates into “comprehensive and integrated” responses to large movements of refugees and migrants. The effort to de-compartmental...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rule of Law and Human Mobility in the Age of the Global Compacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,053 Views
15 Pages

Implementation of Good Practices in Environmental Licensing Processes

  • Emiliano Lobo de Godoi,
  • Thiago Augusto Mendes and
  • André C. S. Batalhão

12 October 2022

One of the main command and control mechanisms for the environment is the environmental licensing process. However, the isolated adoption of this mechanism has not satisfactorily ensured the environmental quality of natural resources. On the other ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Law)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,257 Views
12 Pages

12 October 2022

The relevance of the research stems from the wider spread of contract conflicts and legal disputes caused by verbal and numerical ambiguity of certain contract terms, given the absence of a special legislative rule to overcome such ambiguities. The w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,272 Views
13 Pages

2 October 2022

The European financial regulation is evolving with new and specific forms of cooperation for the member states, enhancing concepts and innovative rule of law, particularly featuring the actual level of harmonization. This paper investigates the Europ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,805 Views
26 Pages

30 September 2022

Contemporary case law in the United States surrounding the establishment clause of the federal Constitution has entered a period of remarkable uncertainty. Now is an appropriate time to revisit the legal foundations of the Supreme Court’s semin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,871 Views
11 Pages

29 September 2022

South Korea introduced the artificial intelligence impact assessment and was the first case of introducing the artificial intelligence impact assessment as national-level legislation. Artificial intelligence impact assessments will be helpful in deci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,773 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2022

This article examines the contribution of restorative practice and therapeutic jurisprudence in community courts, which have adopted a problem-solving approach. Through interviews with stakeholders, it explores the implementation of the community cou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Frontiers in Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice: Expanding ‘What Works’)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,762 Views
15 Pages

Gender and Sentencing in Lithuania: More Mercy for Women?

  • Artūras Tereškinas,
  • Rūta Vaičiūnienė and
  • Liubovė Jarutienė

8 September 2022

This article focuses on the structure of female and male crimes and gender disparities in sentencing in Lithuania, which present a significant gap in criminological research. Using Lithuanian court decisions on five types of offenses—murder, gr...

(This article belongs to the Section Law and Gender Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
138,183 Views
19 Pages

30 August 2022

The police are the initial faces of law enforcement and commence the criminal justice process and thus hold significant responsibility for functioning law and order. As key representatives of the state, the integrity of the police in all societies is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,634 Views
23 Pages

29 August 2022

The United Nations Model Tax Convention between Developed and Developing Countries (UN MTC) Article 26 charts out an exchange of information (EOI) regime “between developed and developing countries”, feigning that it is more favorable to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,624 Views
16 Pages

25 August 2022

This study focuses on examining the requirements forming the concept of the right to effective administration in relation to the communication of local governments with their residents. We pay attention to the electronization of public administration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,831 Views
28 Pages

Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases

  • Richard D. Gill,
  • Norman Fenton and
  • David Lagnado

23 August 2022

We study statistical aspects of the case of the British nurse Ben Geen, convicted of 2 counts of murder and 15 of grievous bodily harm following events at Horton General Hospital (in the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK) during December 2013–Fe...

(This article belongs to the Section Criminal Justice Issues)
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