Cross-border insolvency: Adoption of CLERP 8 as an evolution of Australian insolvency law

In 1997 the United Nations adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and recommended that member states adopt it as part of domestic legislation. In 2002 Australia, an active participant in UNCITRAL's Working Group on Insolvency Law, announced that the next phase of the Commonwealth Government's Corporate Law Economic Reform Program would be a review of cross-border insolvency law. CLERP 8 seeks feedback on the proposed enactment of the Model Law by a separate Commonwealth statute. This article places such a development within the context of Australian cross-border insolvency law as it has evolved from early English bankruptcy legislation through case law arising from the banking collapses of the late 19th century to the more recent jurisprudence produced by corporate collapses of the late 1980s to early 1990s and current high-profile insolvencies.

Reforming the law of medical negligence: Solutions in search of a problem

The Commonwealth Government's Principles Based Review of the Law of Negligence recently recommended reforms aimed at limiting liability and damages arising from personal injury and death, in response to the growing perception that the current system of compensating personal injury had become financially unsustainable. Recent increases in medical liability and damages have eroded the confidence of doctors and their professional bodies, with fears of unprecedented desertion from and reduced recruitment into high risk areas, and one of the primary foci of the review concerned medical negligence. The article analyses proposals to redefine the principles necessary for the finding of negligence, against the terms of reference of the review. The article assumes that for the foreseeable future, Australia will persist with tort-based compensation for personal injury rather than developing a no-fault scheme. If the suggested changes to the fundamental principles of negligence are unlikely to reduce medical liability, greater attention might be given to the processes which come into play after the finding of negligence, where reform is more likely to benefit both plaintiffs and defendants.

Sistema Nacional de Gest??o de Atividades de Criminal??stica do Departamento de Pol??cia Federal

O Sistema Nacional de Gest??o de Atividades de Criminal??stica foi concebido e desenvolvido com o intuito de racionalizar o acesso ?? informa????o, melhorar o desempenho do trabalho pericial e facilitar a administra????o centralizada da per??cia no Departamento de Pol??cia Federal (DPF). O sistema acompanha o trabalho dos setores de criminal??stica desde a chegada do expediente de servi??o at?? a libera????o do laudo pericial. Nesse trajeto, rastreia documentos, registra resultados intermedi??rios, controla o andamento de filas de trabalho e os volumes de produ????o, pend??ncias e solicita????es. Al??m disso, auxilia a atividade fim na medida em que disponibiliza para consulta todo o acervo digital de documentos e gera conte??do de novos documentos automaticamente a partir de diversos modelos altamente adapt??veis. Finalmente, possui m??dulo de apoio ?? gest??o de recursos humanos integrado ao controle de produ????o. Atualmente, conta com mais de 1.400 usu??rios em todas as 33 unidades da criminal??stica no DPF

Revison of Alongatepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) with description of a new species from Colombia

Espécies do gênero Neotropical Alongatepyris Azevedo são raramente coletadas. O gênero é reconhecido dentre os Sclerodermini por possuir o corpo extremamente achatado e a célula submediana da asa anterior pequena e completamente fechada. É descrita e ilustrada uma segunda espécie, Alongatepyris ingens sp. nov. da Colômbia. Esta espécie é caracterizada por não possuir a nervura radial da asa anterior. É apresentada uma diagnose de A. platunissimus Azevedo, 1992. É apresentada uma chave para as espécies do gênero.

Representações sociais de policiais civis sobre profissionalização

O estudo objetivou identificar as representações sociais sobre a profissionalização de policiais civis e suas relações com o incremento e a manutenção do Estado democrático. Foram aplicados questionários semi-estruturados a uma amostra de agentes e investigadores de polícia, focalizando a profissionalização nos níveis pessoal, institucional e político. Os elementos representacionais identificados foram: 1) a falta de investimento na instituição; 2) a subserviência da polícia aos interesses de grupos políticos conservadores; 3) a profissionalização como aquisição de conteúdos técnicos que objetivam o ganho pecuniário e a categorização criminal de segmentos socialmente excluídos. O estudo conclui que esses elementos atuam como obstáculos para a implantação e a manutenção do Estado de direito no Espírito Santo.

Uprootedness and the protection of migrants in the International Law of Human Rights

The article attempt to demonstrate the evolution of international law in connected to the subject of the forced immigrants'. The author supported by several texts, cases and resolutions of the regional level, through interamerican court and European court, and the global level, through the international court. It's shown the evolution that occurred in international law in millennium turn over, which recognize the immigrants' rights. However, it's stressed the necessity of the development of those laws connected to the theme e the recognition, from the States; the importance of law's that effort to ensure the respect to human rights relative to the immigrants and their families.

Performance measurement and management in Portuguese law enforcement

Performance measurement of police services is complicated by ambiguous and complex goal- and objectives-setting, and by the difficulties of measuring outputs. This article looks at the organizational and management changes being made in Portuguese police forces. The authors fill a gap in the literature on performance measurement in Portugal by taking a national approach to the study of how law enforcement agencies are introducing new management accounting changes. The article therefore widens the debate on performance measurement and performance improvements in law enforcement.