Are the outcomes of the CJEU judgments on religious discrimination essentially different from the outcome of similar cases dealing with restrictions on the freedom of religion ruled by the ECtHR? |
Zoekresultaat: 82 artikelen
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Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Religious discrimination |
Auteurs | Filip Dorssemont |
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Tijdschrift | Erasmus Law Review, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | age discrimination, age equality, health care |
Auteurs | Rachel Horton |
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Age limits, minimum and maximum, and both explicit and ‘covert’, are still used in the National Health Service to determine access to a range of health interventions, including infertility services and cancer screening and treatment. Evidence suggests that chronological age is used as a proxy for a host of characteristics in determining access to healthcare: as a proxy for the capacity of an individual to benefit from an intervention; for the type of harm that may result from an intervention; for the likelihood of such benefit or harm occurring; and, in some cases, for other indicators used to determine what may be in the patient’s interest. Age is used as a proxy in this way in making decisions about both individual patients and wider populations; it may be used where no better ‘marker’ for the relevant characteristic exists or – for reasons including cost, practicality or fairness – in preference to other available markers. This article reviews the justifications for using age in this way in the context of the existing legal framework on age discrimination in the provision of public services. |
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Tijdschrift | Erasmus Law Review, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | voting age, children’s rights, youth enfranchisement, democracy, votes at 16 |
Auteurs | Tommy Peto |
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This article argues in favour of lowering the voting age to 16. First, it outlines a respect-based account of democracy where the right to vote is grounded in a respect for citizens’ autonomous capacities. It then outlines a normative account of autonomy, modelled on Rawls’s two moral powers, saying what criteria must be met for an individual to possess a (pro tanto) moral right to vote. Second, it engages with empirical psychology to show that by the age of 16 (if not earlier) individuals have developed all of the cognitive components of autonomy. Therefore, since 16- and 17-year-olds (and quite probably those a little younger) possess the natural features required for autonomy, then, to the extent that respect for autonomy requires granting political rights including the right to vote – and barring some special circumstances that apply only to them – 16- and 17-year-olds should be granted the right to vote. |
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Medisch data-onderzoek in het AVG-tijdperk: een zoektocht naar de juiste regels |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Auteurs | Mr. dr. M.C. Ploem, Dr. T. Rigter en Prof. mr. J.K.M. Gevers |
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Tijdschrift | Family & Law, april 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Family life |
Auteurs | Dr. N. Hyder-Rahman |
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This article engages in a comparison of the regulation of PR in the Netherlands and the UK (specifically England and Wales). The latter is a good comparator as it operates a similar regulatory approach to the Netherlands, that of conditional acceptance of PR, the condition being (prior) consent. Furthermore, the UK boasts a more detailed and mature legal framework that continues to be tested through caselaw, and thus offers insight into how a regulatory approach conditional upon the (prior) consent of the deceased can fare. --- Dit artikel vergelijkt de regulering van postume reproductie (PR) in Nederland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk (in het bijzonder Engeland en Wales). Laatstgenoemde is daarvoor zeer geschikt, aangezien het VK een vergelijkbare reguleringsbenadering heeft als Nederland, namelijk de voorwaardelijke acceptatie van PR, waarbij (voorafgaande) toestemming de voorwaarde is. Bovendien beschikt het VK over een gedetailleerder en volwassener juridisch kader dat continu wordt getoetst door middel van rechtspraak. Dit kader biedt daarmee inzicht in hoe een regulerende benadering met als voorwaarde (voorafgaande) toestemming van de overledene kan verlopen. |
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Tijdschrift | Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Strafrecht, Aflevering 1 2020 |
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Opzettelijk handelen in strijd met het in art. 2.A Opiumwet gegeven verbod door invoer van ruim 30 kg ayahuasca-thee bestemd voor kerk. Beroep op recht op vrijheid van godsdienst ex art. 9 EVRM. |
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Tijdschrift | Erasmus Law Review, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Medical Device Directive, Medical Device Regulation, regulatory, European Union, reform, innovation, SPCs, policy |
Auteurs | Magali Contardi |
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Similar to pharmaceutical products, medical devices play an increasingly important role in healthcare worldwide by contributing substantially to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. From the patent law perspective both, pharmaceutical products and a medical apparatus, product or device can be patented if they meet the patentability requirements, which are novelty, inventiveness and entail industrial applicability. However, regulatory issues also impact on the whole cycle of the innovation. At a European level, enhancing competitiveness while ensuring public health and safety is one of the key objectives of the European Commission. This article undertakes literature review of the current and incoming regulatory framework governing medical devices with the aim of highlighting how these major changes would affect the industry at issue. The analysis is made in the framework of an on-going research work aimed to determine whether SPCs are needed for promoting innovation in the medical devices industry. A thorough analysis the aforementioned factors affecting medical device’s industry will allow the policymakers to understand the root cause of any optimal patent term and find appropriate solutions. |
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2019/30 The religious ethos and differences of treatment in employment on grounds of belief (EU) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Religious discrimination |
Auteurs | Andrzej Marian Świątkowski |
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The author discusses the recent ECJ judgments in the cases Egenberger and IR on religious discrimination. |
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Tijdschrift | Family & Law, mei 2019 |
Auteurs | prof. dr. Tineke Abma en dr. Elena Bendien |
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Background: In many European countries caring responsibilities are being reallocated to the older people themselves to keep the welfare state affordable. This policy is often legitimized with reference to the ethical principle of autonomy. Older people are expected to be autonomous, have freedom to make their own decisions, and be self-reliant and self-sufficient as long as possible. |
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Tijdschrift | Family & Law, februari 2019 |
Auteurs | H.N. Stelma-Roorda LLM MSc, dr. C. Blankman en prof. dr. M.V. Antokolskaia |
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The perception of how the interests of vulnerable adults should be protected has been changing over time. Under the influence of human and patient’s rights a profound shift of protection paradigms has taken place in the last decades. In the framework of this shift, in addition to traditional adult guardianship measures, new instruments have been developed allowing adults to play a greater role in the protection of their (future) interests. This has also been the case in the Netherlands, where adults in the course of the last decade have acquired the possibility to make a so-called living will, internationally better known as a continuing, enduring or lasting power of attorney. This article discusses this instrument, in comparison with the traditional adult guardianship measures currently in force in the Netherlands, from the perspective of the new protection paradigm based on a human rights approach. |
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Tijdschrift | Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Corporations, democracy, legal personality, personhood, inclusion |
Auteurs | Ludvig Beckman |
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Corporations can have rights but whether they should also have democratic rights depends among other things on whether they are the kind of entities to which the democratic ideal applies. This paper distinguishes four different conceptions of “the person” that can have democratic rights. According to one view, the only necessary condition is legal personality, whereas according to the other three views, democratic inclusion is conditioned also by personhood in the natural sense of the term. Though it is uncontroversial that corporations can be legal persons, it is plausible to ascribe personhood in the natural sense to corporations only if personhood is conceptualized exclusively in terms of moral agency. The conclusion of the paper is that corporations can meet the necessary conditions for democratic inclusion but that it is not yet clear in democratic theory exactly what these conditions are. |
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Onpartijdige rechtswetenschap? |
Tijdschrift | RegelMaat, Aflevering 1-2 2018 |
Trefwoorden | onpartijdigheid, onafhankelijkheid, wetenschappelijke objectiviteit, belangenconflicten |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. R.A.J. van Gestel |
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Recentelijk is in de media veel aandacht geschonken aan gevallen van beïnvloeding door opdrachtgevers van (rechts)wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Veel nadruk ligt daarbij al snel op pogingen van bestuurders en beleidsmakers om de inhoud van dergelijk onderzoek – vaak op subtiele wijze – een wenselijk geachte richting op te sturen. Veel minder aandacht is er echter voor de andere kant van de zaak, namelijk: wat is de verantwoordelijkheid van die wetenschappers en hoe zijn hun onpartijdigheid en onafhankelijkheid gewaarborgd? In deze bijdrage zal worden beweerd dat ook daar werk aan de winkel is. |
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Tijdschrift | Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | empirical legal studies, apologies, procedural justice, humiliation, victim rights |
Auteurs | Vincent Geeraets en Wouter Veraart |
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The central question in this article is whether an empirical-legal approach of victimhood and victim rights could offer a sufficient basis for proposals of legal reform of the legal system. In this article, we choose a normative-critical approach and raise some objections to the way in which part of such research is currently taking place in the Netherlands, on the basis of two examples of research in this field, one dealing with compelled apologies as a possible remedy within civil procedural law and the other with the victim’s right to be heard within the criminal legal procedure. In both cases, we argue, the strong focus on the measurable needs of victims can lead to a relatively instrumental view of the legal system. The legal system must then increasingly be tailored to the wishes and needs of victims. Within this legal-empirical, victim-oriented approach, there is little regard for the general normative principles of our present legal system, in which an equal and respectful treatment of each human being as a free and responsible legal subject is a central value. We argue that results of empirical-legal research should not too easily or too quickly be translated into proposals for legal reform, but first become part of a hermeneutical discussion about norms and legal principles, specific to the normative quality of legal science itself. |
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Tijdschrift | Law and Method, augustus 2017 |
Auteurs | Geoffrey Samuel |
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The purpose of this article is to investigate whether the notion of an interest should be taken more seriously than the notion of a right. It will be argued that it should; and not only because it can be just as amenable to the institutional taxonomical structure often said to be at the basis of rights thinking in law but also because the notion of an interest has a more epistemologically convincing explanatory power with respect to reasoning in law and its relation to social facts. The article equally aims to highlight some of the important existing work on the notion of an interest in law. |
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Tijdschrift | Erasmus Law Review, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Preventive detention, mandatory supervision, sex offenders, retrospective penal laws, legality principle |
Auteurs | Martine Herzog-Evans |
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France literally ‘discovered’ sexual abuse following neighbour Belgium’s Dutroux case in the late 1990s. Since then, sex offenders have been the focus of politicians, media and law-makers’ attention. Further law reforms have aimed at imposing mandatory supervision and treatment, and in rare cases, preventive detention. The legal framework for mandatory supervision and detention is rather complex, ranging from a mixed sentence (custodial and mandatory supervision and treatment upon release or as a stand-alone sentence) to so-called ‘safety measures’, which supposedly do not aim at punishing an offence, but at protecting society. The difference between the concepts of sentences and safety measures is nevertheless rather blurry. In practice, however, courts have used safety measures quite sparingly and have preferred mandatory supervision as attached to a sentence, notably because it is compatible with cardinal legal principles. Procedural constraints have also contributed to this limited use. Moreover, the type of supervision and treatment that can thus be imposed is virtually identical to that of ordinary probation. It is, however, noteworthy that a higher number of offenders with mental health issues who are deemed ‘dangerous’ are placed in special psychiatric units, something that has not drawn much attention on the part of human rights lawyers. |
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Culturen van letselschadeafwikkelingIndrukken uit een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de wijze van afwikkeling van letselschades in Engeland, Noorwegen en Nederland |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Vergoeding Personenschade, Aflevering 4 2016 |
Trefwoorden | letselschade, schadeafwikkeling, personenschade, cultuurverschillen, rechtsvergelijking |
Auteurs | Mr. E.S. Engelhard en Prof. mr. S.D. Lindenbergh |
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Onderzoek naar de wijze waarop letselschades worden afgewikkeld in Engeland, Noorwegen en Nederland brengt relevante verschillen in afwikkelingsculturen aan het licht. De Engelse wijze van afwikkeling is sterk gericht op afwikkeling in rechte en is vergaand vercommercialiseerd. De Noorse praktijk kenmerkt zich door een op sociale zekerheid gebaseerde afwikkelingscultuur buiten rechte, die in hoge mate is gebaseerd op onderling vertrouwen. De Nederlandse praktijk van schadeafwikkeling heeft met de Engelse gemeen dat zij vorm krijgt in een commerciële setting tegen de achtergrond van het civiele aansprakelijkheidsrecht. Met de Noorse praktijk heeft zij gemeen dat het proces van afwikkeling in hoge mate is gebaseerd op overleg buiten rechte en op onderling vertrouwen. |
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Schade door een ongeschikte medische hulpzaak ex artikel 6:77 BW: een rechtsvergelijking met Frankrijk en Duitsland |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Vergoeding Personenschade, Aflevering 4 2016 |
Trefwoorden | artikel 6:77 BW, medische hulpzaken, Frans aansprakelijkheidsrecht, Duits aansprakelijkheidsrecht |
Auteurs | Mr. V.J.P. Ramaekers |
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De aansprakelijkheidsregeling voor gebruikers van ongeschikte medische hulpzaken volgens artikel 6:77 BW heeft geleid tot rechtsonzekerheid en discussie. Om nieuwe inzichten te verkrijgen is het interessant om een rechtsvergelijking te maken met twee nabijgelegen landen die voor wat betreft het rechtssysteem en de juridisch-culturele ontwikkeling op Nederland lijken. In deze bijdrage is daarom onderzocht wie in Frankrijk en Duitsland door patiënten kunnen worden aangesproken, wat daar de tendensen in zijn en op welke manier het Nederlandse recht daar inspiratie aan kan ontlenen. |
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Tijdschrift | Erasmus Law Review, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | E-health, e-mental health, right to health, right to mental health |
Auteurs | Fatemeh Kokabisaghi, Iris Bakx en Blerta Zenelaj |
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People with mental illness usually experience higher rates of disability and mortality. Often, health care systems do not adequately respond to the burden of mental disorders worldwide. The number of health care providers dealing with mental health care is insufficient in many countries. Equal access to necessary health services should be granted to mentally ill people without any discrimination. E-mental health is expected to enhance the quality of care as well as accessibility, availability and affordability of services. This paper examines under what conditions e-mental health can contribute to realising the right to health by using the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality (AAAQ) framework that is developed by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Research shows e-mental health facilitates dissemination of information, remote consultation and patient monitoring and might increase access to mental health care. Furthermore, patient participation might increase, and stigma and discrimination might be reduced by the use of e-mental health. However, e-mental health might not increase the access to health care for everyone, such as the digitally illiterate or those who do not have access to the Internet. The affordability of this service, when it is not covered by insurance, can be a barrier to access to this service. In addition, not all e-mental health services are acceptable and of good quality. Policy makers should adopt new legal policies to respond to the present and future developments of modern technologies in health, as well as e-Mental health. To analyse the impact of e-mental health on the right to health, additional research is necessary. |
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Wilsbekwaam maar te jong? Over euthanasie bij wilsbekwame kinderen jonger dan twaalf jaar |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht, Aflevering 7 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Twaalfjaarsgrens euthanasie, leeftijdsgrenzen Wet toetsing levensbeëindiging op verzoek en hulp bij zelfdoding, wilsbekwaamheid onder de twaalf, euthanasie minderjarigen |
Auteurs | Mr. O.A. Meijer |
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In deze bijdrage wordt naar aanleiding van de actuele discussie en de hierbij door de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde (NVK) en de Minister van VWS ingenomen standpunten, de mogelijkheid tot het schrappen van leeftijdsgrenzen in de Wet toetsing levensbeëindiging op verzoek en hulp bij zelfdoding (Wtl) besproken en becommentarieerd. Dit artikel spitst zich hierbij toe op de juridische positie van kinderen die jonger dan twaalf én wilsbekwaam zijn. Ingegaan wordt op voor- en nadelen van het schrappen van de leeftijdsgrenzen en de juridische mogelijkheden en moeilijkheden die zich bij een eventuele wijziging van de Wtl zullen voordoen. |
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2016/46 No expectation of privacy in material obtained during a criminal investigation (UK) |
Tijdschrift | European Employment Law Cases, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Human rights, privacy |
Auteurs | Anna Bond |
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) has upheld an Employment Tribunal’s (‘ET’s’) finding that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) was not engaged when an employer used private material obtained by the police during a criminal investigation as part of an internal disciplinary investigation into one of its employees. This material had been taken from the claimant’s phone by the police, who then provided it to the employer (stating that it could be used for the purposes of their investigation). The facts in this case were unusual. Whether or not an employee has a reasonable expectation of privacy in similar circumstances will depend on all the facts, including the source of the information, whether the employee has expressly objected to its use, and whether the relevant conduct took place in, or was brought into, the workplace. |