新精神·新定位·新举措——按照十七大精神推进司法行政事业创新发展的若干思考

司法行政机关是依法维护公平正义、保障人民民主、塑造社会诚信、化解社会矛盾、维护和谐稳定的专门机关。黑龙江省司法行政机关在高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜，夺取全面建设小康社会新胜利，实现黑龙江的全面振兴中肩负着重大责任和庄严使命。当前和今后一个时期我省司法行政系统的首要政治任务，是深入学习贯彻十七大精神；而要深入学习贯彻十七大精神，关键要将十七大精神贯穿我省司法行政工作全过程，自觉以新精神指导新实践，以新定位谋划新发展，以新举措开创新业绩。     

论司法行政在构建和谐社会中的作用特点与路径

构建社会主义和谐社会,是我们党从全面建设小康社会开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的全局出发,提出的一项重大战略任务。正如胡锦涛同志强调的,我们所要建设的社会主义和谐社会是民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会。可以说,和谐社会的这六大特征,都和我们司法行政担负的职能密切相关。司法行政应当发挥自身独特的优势和作用,积极推进民主法治建设,维护社会公平和正义,化解社会矛盾、促进社会和谐,成为构建社会主义和谐社会的一支重要力量。一、司法行政在构建和谐社会中的作用特点司法行政是与司…     

司法行政工作良性循环发展的探索与思考

贯彻落实十七大精神,树立和践行科学发展观,在构建社会主义和谐社会的总体布局中发挥好司法行政工作的职能作用,为构建社会主义和谐社会提供保障和服务,是当前司法行政机关的重大历史使命。围绕这一使命,近年来,安徽省司法行政系统进行了一系列实践探索和理性思考。一、为什么要确立司法行政工作良性循环发展的理念提出安徽司法行政工作良性循环发展的课题,是基于我省司法行政工作实际,对于实现“十一五”期间安徽司法行政工作的跨越式发展,具有重要的现实意义。第一,实现良性循环发展是适应司法行政工作新形势的客观需要。构建社会主义和谐…     

加强法治,促进和谐——论法治在构建社会主义和谐社会中的地位和作用

和谐是一个古老而又经久不衰的跨学科概念,具有美学本源、哲学基础、社会科学基础和实践意义。社会主义和谐社会是民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会。民主法治在和谐社会的全部内涵和基本特征中具有统揽全局、支撑全局的作用。法治是构建和谐社会最重要的机制。建设社会主义和谐社会,要围绕人与人的和谐、人与社会的和谐、人与自然的和谐、中国与世界的和谐这四个方面发挥法律的引导和维护作用。和谐社会的法制保障包括立法保障、执法保障、司法保障和守法保障四个方面。     

构建和谐社会司法大有作为——兼谈法治、司法、司法能力建设在构建和谐社会中的地位与作用

党的十六届四中全会提出了“构建社会主义和谐社会”的科学命题。胡锦涛总书记进一步指出,我们所要建设的社会主义和谐社会,应该是民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会。总书记对“和谐社会”内涵的阐述表明“民主”与“法治”是构建和谐社会的两大“支柱”。而与法治紧密相关的司法也是构建和谐社会的重要力量。本文就是对和谐社会必定是法治社会,法治是构建和谐社会的基础和保障;司法是法治的核心,是构建和谐社会的中坚力量;构建和谐社会,实行法治,必须强化司法能力建设进行了探讨。一、和谐社会必…     

加强与改进新时期人民调解工作的思考

人民调解是具有中国特色的社会主义民主法律制度,在维护社会稳定、构建和谐社会、开展平安建设活动中发挥着重要的作用。指导人民调解工作的开展是司法行政机关的法定职责。如何把管理和指导人民调解工作,作为基层司法行政的一项基础性工作抓紧、抓实、抓好,事关基层司法所能否     

检察机关服务构建和谐社会需要把握的几个问题

社会主义和谐社会是民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的社会,这六个方面的特征无一不与检察工作密切相关。这就要求检察机关必须深刻把握服务构建社会主义和谐社会的实质,不断增强司法能力,找准服务构建社会主义和谐社会的“切入点”,狠抓“着力点”,把握“结合点”,强化“关系点”,为构建和谐社会提供有力司法保障。     

加强县级司法行政工作 夯实司法行政创新社会管理基础

县级司法行政工作是指县（市、区）司法行政机关履行司法行政职能的程序、措施、人员、保障、效果等方面情况。县级司法行政工作是整个司法行政事业的根基所在，是司法行政创新社会管理的基础。加强县级司法行政工作，对于加强社会建设，创新社会管理，维护基层和谐稳定具有十分重要的现实意义。     

公证工作在构建社会主义和谐社会中的角色定位

公证制度作为向社会提供法律保障和法律服务的司法证明制度，以促进民商事活动有序进行、参与社会生活管理和社会秩序构建为工作重点和价值追求，是促进和保障社会和谐的重要法律手段。党的十六届六中全会提出的构建社会主义和谐社会的重大战略任务，又赋予了公证工作新的使命，为公证工作指明了新的方向，明确了新的任务，公证工作在构建社会主义和谐社会中大有可为。对照社会主义和谐社会关于民主法治、公平正义、安定有序、诚信友爱、充满活力、人与自然和谐相处六大要求，公证工作在构建社会主义和谐社会中充当着“生力军”、“助推器”、“减压仓”、“领航员”、“催化剂”、“调节阀”六种角色。     

和谐视角下民事检察制度的革新

一、法治是构建和谐社会的关键和谐社会的基本特征是民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序，人与自然和谐相处。司法公正是构建和谐社会的基础性保障．也是维护社会公正与社会和谐的制度保障底线。如果司法腐败，将会纵容和放大社会的腐败，将是构建和谐社会的最大障碍。     

Can a hyphen substitute a space in a domain name?

A recent decision of the Danish Complaints Board for DomainNames addressed the issue of hyphenating words in domain namesto get around the word spacing problem, where the domain namein question conflicted with rights in a personal name.     

律师何以成讼棍

律师向法官行贿并非新闻,暗地里向审判官行贿是讼棍们祖传秘术。让人拍案惊奇的是,这位律师竟然将历来暗地里进行的潜规则公开化,合了一句成语——贿赂公行。讼棍并非是我们时代的新产品,它是专制权力的“传家宝”。宋人在《戒讼录》中曾以歌谣的形式唱道:“些小言辞莫若休,不须经县与经州,衙头府底陪茶酒,赢得猫儿卖了牛。”为何赢了猫儿卖了牛?因为牛被松棍和贪官污吏们合伙吃了去。讼棍们是如何工作的?曹雪芹在其名著《红楼梦》一书中介绍了天下第一能干、漂亮的讼棍王熙凤的入道过程。做托的是馒头庵的老尼。案情是这样的:一个大财主的…     

Why a Jury Trial is More Like a Movie Than a Novel

This essay is concerned to note the way in which successful trial advocacy seems to stem from the ability to convert legal discourse into a story form. These stories need to be ones with which a jury is familiar. These increasingly come from visual media, particularly film. It looks in detail at one trial where this process of relating a defence to the jury employed the structure of a Mafia film. The essay concludes by examining the reasons why the nature of the novel differs significantly from that of the film and how in the novel-to-film adaptation process a certain simplification is bound to occur.     

From a Civil Libertarian to a Sanitarian

This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André-Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, and Michael Adler.     

Wind-drag estimation in a traffic accident involving a motor scooter and a tractor-trailer

This case report describes a noncontact traffic accident involving a motor scooter and a tractor-trailer with a focus on the wind-drag effect. We used load cells to measure the drag force acting on a substantially similar motor scooter when a substantially similar tractor-trailer passes by it, taking into consideration various speeds of the tractor-trailer and distances between the two vehicles. A three-dimensional steady-state flow analysis was also performed by using the CFX program for computational fluid dynamics to examine the streamlines and the pressure distribution around the tractor-trailer at various speeds. From the experiment, for a separation distance of 1.0 m (3.28 ft) and a speed of 90 km/h (55.9 mph), the maximum resultant drag force is 124.5 N (28 lb); this constitutes a degree of force that could abruptly disrupt the stability in maneuvering by an operator who is unaware of the approaching tractor-trailer. In addition, a single equation that relates the tractor-trailer speed to the drag force that acts on the motor scooter was derived on the basis of the Reynolds number (Re) and the wind-drag coefficient (C(d)): C(d) = 1.298 × 10(-7) Re.     

Toolmark Identification of a Mattock to a Clod of Soil from a Grave

Abstract: At a recent bushland gravesite that contained a deceased male, a clod of soil displaying a striated toolmark was collected during the excavation of the grave. This clod was preserved, and the mark was cast using Mikrosil?. Shovels and a mattock, which had been discarded by the suspects, were subsequently found at another location. A toolmark comparison identified the hoe end of the mattock head as having produced the striated toolmark.     

Calculating likelihood ratios for a mixed DNA profile when a contribution from a genetic relative of a suspect is proposed

This technical note describes a practical method for evaluating evidence in the case of a two person conditioned DNA mixture where the defence proposition is that the unknown contributor is genetically related to the suspect. A conditioned mixture is one where the presence of DNA from one of two individuals is accepted by both prosecution and defence. A typical example would be a vaginal swab in an alleged rape case, where the presence of the complainant's DNA would be expected and samples have been taken from the complainant and a suspect. Much has been written about the interpretation of such mixtures and the calculation of the conditional genotype probabilities that must be carried out. In general, such treatments assume that the unknown contributor, under the defence proposition, is unrelated to the known individuals. In this paper, we consider the case where the defence proposition is that the unknown contributor is genetically related to the suspect. We describe a method, incorporating a flow chart and reference tables that facilitate manual calculations of the likelihood ratio for several postulated genetic relationships.