Essays about: "right to fair trial"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the words right to fair trial.
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1. "The Competition of Values in the European Arrest Warrant Tracing the Conflict and Prioritization Between Collective Security and Individual Justice Within Case Law of the CJEU"
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The European Arrest Warrant system is built on balancing between individual justice, which safeguards the right to a fair trial of subjects to extradition, and collective security, which seeks to ensure public safety and effective law enforcement. This thesis provides for an analysis of this balance and its evolution, exploring how the prioritization of individual justice and collective security, as manifested in the EAW, have shifted through the evolutive interpretation of the Court of Justice of the European Union. READ MORE
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2. Empowering the Taxpayer - How the Charter of Fundamental Rights Helps to Shape an Equitable European VAT System
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : C-617/10 Åkerberg Fransson is the landmark case of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that dealt with the interpretation and application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Charter). In brief, the case concerned a Swedish national who was accused of tax evasion and faced criminal charges for failing to pay value added tax (VAT) on certain business transactions. READ MORE
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3. Selective justice within the International Criminal Court and global inequalities
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : African states have recently claimed that international law is transforming into a new form of colonialism and a hegemonic power masquerading as the international rule of law. The International Criminal Court's bias against the Third World African states in correlation to the human right to a fair trial is investigated. READ MORE
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4. Defending the Defenders: International Protection for Local Human Rights Defenders in the Global South
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Local human rights defenders play a significant role in the realization and enjoyment of human rights. Working alone or in association with others, they peacefully advocate for and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights for themselves and for their fellow citizens. READ MORE
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5. The Chilean Old-Age Pension System in Light of International Human Rights Law and the Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Right to Social Security
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : In the early 1980s, during the darkest years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, an apparently innocuous but radical decision was made: to implement an old-age pension system based on individual accounts mandatorily administered by private for-profit entities called ‘pension fund administrators’ (‘AFPs’, by its acronym in Castilian), in which the workers’ social security regarding old-age pensions was in practice totally dependent on their individual saving capacity during their working life. This was a completely novel system at that time, even at the international level, and part of a package of reforms allegedly directed to refound and modernise the country, deeply transforming the functions of the State and the role of the private sector, and causing a multiplicity of consequences felt until today in all possible areas of society and where, of course, human rights are no exception. READ MORE
