Honour-related emotions such as shame, guilt, anger, distrust and pride play a critical role in regulating the response to a traumatic event and the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Crimes with the intent to cause harm to a person include, to a greater or lesser extent, a component to overpower and humiliate. Such traumatic experiences can, especially in more collectivist cultures, lead to a complex mix of posttraumatic guilt and shame. In order to restore honour, posttraumatic shame or guilt can lead to violence. Together with posttraumatic stress symptoms such as flashbacks and hyperarousal it may even lead to excessive violence.

Als een geschikte koper is gevonden voor een te executeren onroerend goed, is het doorlopen van het wettelijke executietraject vaak nog nodig om het goed te bevrijden van rechten van derden of omdat de hypotheekgever weigert mee te werken. Een pre-auction agreement biedt dan uitkomst. De auteur beschrijft inhoud en toelaatbaarheid van een pre-auction agreement en pleit voor een regeling die onderhandse executoriale verkoop buiten het stramien van Rechtsvordering mogelijk maakt.

Recently there’s a lot of debate within the Netherlands about the criminality of assistance by someone who’s not a doctor towards the death of a loved one. In the Heringa lawsuit a son has helped his (step)mother who wished to no longer live (considered her life to be ‘completed’) to die at an age of 99. The helper non-doctor risks criminal pursuit and punishment. The central argument of the lobby to establish a more humane approach towards the persevered need is personal autonomy. This article aims to clarify the debate and to stimulate another way of thinking towards the situation of, mostly, elderly who want to decide and act independently regarding their death.

The regulation of transnational employment in the European Union operates at the crossroads between private international law and internal market rules. The private international law rules are currently laid down in the Rome I Regulation. This regulation is complemented by the Posted Workers Directive, a directive based on the competences of the EU in the field of free movement of services. The current contribution first describes the rules which determine the law applicable to the employment contract under Article 8 Rome I Regulation and the way these rules are interpreted by the CJEU before critically analysing these rules and the reasoning that seems to lie behind the court’s interpretation (section 2). The law applying to the contract is, however, only of limited relevance for the protection of posted workers. This is due inter alia to the mandatory application of certain rules of the country to which the workers are posted, even if a different law governs their contract. This application of host state law is based on Article 9 Rome I Regulation in conjunction with the Posted Workers Directive. Section 3 describes the content of these rules and the – to some extent still undecided – interaction between the Rome I Regulation and the PWD. The conclusion will be that there is an uneasy match between the interests informing private international law and the interests of the internal market, which is not likely to be resolved in the near future.

De nota ‘Vertrouwen in wetgeving’ heeft gezorgd voor een koerswijziging in het wetgevingskwaliteitsbeleid. In de afgelopen tien jaren heeft dit veel concrete resultaten opgeleverd om de kwaliteit van wetgeving te verbeteren. Dit is in tegenspraak met de eerste stelling bij het proefschrift van M. Bokhorst, Bronnen van legitimiteit. Over de zoektocht van de wetgever naar zeggenschap en gezag, die stelt dat het wetgevingsbeleid anno 2014 op sterven na dood lijkt. Een terecht gebruik van het woord ‘lijkt’, want het wetgevingsbeleid is springlevend. Dit artikel beschrijft de koerswijziging in het wetgevingskwaliteitsbeleid en de bereikte resultaten. Met het oog op de toekomst worden enkele perspectieven voor het wetgevingsbeleid geschetst.

Publiekrechtelijke regels hebben een significante invloed gekregen op de civielrechtelijke verhouding tussen partijen in de financiële sector. Dit geldt ook voor de relatie tussen banken en consumenten die de aankoop van een eigen woning willen financieren. In deze bijdrage wordt ingegaan op de betekenis hiervan in de precontractuele fase.

The detention experiences of male criminal foreign national prisoners without legal residence receive little attention in penological literature. A qualitative study amongst 30 prisoners with and 16 prisoners without legal residence in the penitentiary institution Tilburg shows that contacts with the social network and the preparation of the reintegration in society are (more) complicated for foreign national prisoners without legal residence. Besides, communication with the staff is more difficult for this group. These factors have negative impact on their detention experiences. The results show that both deprivation and importation theory apply to foreign national prisoners without legal residence. However, importation aspects – especially the lack of legal residence – may substantially and systematically increase the deprivation and result in additional exclusion and isolation mechanisms for this particular group.