The major concern of this thesis is about the current professional standard of care under Saudi Arabian medical law, regarding doctors' duty to disclose information and risks to competent adult patients about a proposed medical treatment. Additionally, the thesis has highlighted…
The interest in embarking on this study is prompted by the predicament of refugee children under Malaysian jurisdiction and the dire need to improve their situation. This thesis is aimed at investigating the applicability of two rules relating to refugee protection: the principl…
There is an increasing recognition within the international system, of the need to understand Islamic law and legal system. This is due to the realisation that it either underpins or at least influences to some degree not only the legal but also the socio-cultural outlook of abo…
In one sense, the Palestinian problem dates back to early history when the Canaanites, Israelites and Philistines contended for the territory and its resources. However, the modern Palestine problem dates only from the Balfour Declaration in 1917, and yet has proved to be more d…
The Subject of Islamic legal maxims is one of the sciences in Islamic jurisprudence which aphoristically subsumes all the spectrums that purpose of Sharl`ah is all about. There are six basic Islamic legal maxims agreed upon among the Islamic scholars on which the tenet of Islami…
This thesis aims to present the contemporary legal criminal procedures in Saudi Arabia that are relevant to crimes of killing. The thesis is divided into five chapters; each chapter is divided into two or three sections; and every section contains various sub-sections. Part one …
My thesis critically examines whether Malaysian laws on Muslim women's rights are harmonious with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Women's Convention). I argue that the interpretation of 'equality' is the key to constructing the pos…
This thesis explores both the utility and effectiveness of psychological interventions in addressing fire-setting behaviour amongst adults. Chapter one explores the heterogeneous nature of this population in terms of the behaviour, the personal characteristics, and the motivatio…
This thesis is a contribution to the body of literature which aspires to solve the global problem of collective wrongdoing. This collective wrongdoing is committed by individuals, social groups and corporations which includes (to name a few) environmental damage, the violations …
This thesis is concerned with the problems met by the antitrust authority of the Anti-Monopoly Law (the AML 2008) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during its merger control assessment. It provides solutions to some of these problems with reference to EU competition law. A…
This is a study of Human Rights Education (HRE) discourse in community-based settings. It is a critique and analysis of the ways that HRE discourse is shaped by power and culture between the global and the local. It aims to fill a gap in the current research in a number of ways,…
This thesis addresses a neglect of legal analysis in the scholarship on cultural relativism, international human rights law, and Asian values. While a wealth of scholarship exists on cultural relativism as a philosophical or political question, and while the cultural rights of m…
One of the striking features of modern globalization is the rising prominence of international law as governing institution for state-market relations. Nowhere has this been as pronounced as in the international investment regime. Although hardly known to anyone but specialized …
The post-war evolution of the constitution of Poland as well as several other Central and East European countries is characterised by a marked departure from the national traditions towards a form of Government known as the "People's Democracy". This state of affairs resulted fr…
The central thesis around which several arguments develop and revolve in this work is that time has come for members of the legal profession in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland - countries with shared historical, cultural, legal and socioeconomic values - to join other forces in …