Contact,welfare and children in care: revisiting the significance of birth family relationships after finding significant harm

The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a young woman called Frances, caused by direct contact with her birth family and the cessation of such contact. The paper addresses the tension between these two types of harm, in particular the role of contact in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in care. It presents an argument for the child’s care plan to emphasise the need for ongoing review of the role and impact of the child’s close relationships and contact with their birth family once the child is in care. This includes ongoing consideration of the child’s changing relationship with the birth mother and siblings with a view to reconciliation in young adulthood.     

新生代农民工城市融入与社会稳定问题探析

新时期我党提出了构建社会主义和谐社会的发展战略。建构不同社会阶层的平等协调融洽关系,是社会和谐稳定的内蕴和基础。庞大的新生代农民工作为农民工群体的生力军和主体,其城市融入状况直接影响到自身发展、社会和谐稳定与国家长治久安。因此以维护社会稳定为视角,探析新生代农民工城市融入的重要性、紧迫性和现实性,阐释新生代农民工城市融入的现状及困境,进而对有效解决新生代农民工城市融入问题提出对策势在必行。     

拒不执行判决、裁定罪之追诉程序探讨

造成人民法院已生效的法律文书"执行难"的根本原因在于对本罪追诉程序的启动上往往单纯依靠某一种追诉模式,未能将自诉程序和公诉程序的各自优点结合起来,以实现优势互补.在实践中还应该考虑打通二者之间的适用壁垒,实现双向的合理转化,以便于有效打击犯罪,节约司法资源的,提高司法效率,保证程序公正.     

Social Citizenship,Housing Wealth and the Cost of Social Care: Is the Care Act 2014 ‘Fair'?

This article assesses the extent to which it is ‘fair’ for the government to require owner‐occupiers to draw on the equity accumulated in their home to fund their social care costs. The question is stimulated by the report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, Fairer Care Funding (the Dilnot Commission) and the subsequent Care Act 2014. The enquiry is located within the framework of social citizenship and the new social contract. It argues that the individualistic, contractarian approach, exemplified by the Dilnot Commission and reflected in the Act, raises questions when considered from the perspective of intergenerational fairness. We argue that our concerns with the Act could be addressed by inculcating an expectation of drawing on housing wealth to fund older age: a policy of asset‐based welfare.     

Ensuring Insurance for Foster Care: Requiring Foster Parents to Obtain Liability Insurance to Cover Harm Done to Foster Children in their Care

This Note proposes that all states should require that foster parents have liability insurance before children are placed in their care. This Note also proposes that the liability insurance needs to cover not just harm to third parties but also harm to the foster children through the negligent acts of the foster parents. This legislation will allow foster children to have standing to bring claims against their foster parents and insurance companies and give them a greater opportunity for recovery. Currently, the policies and statutes governing the policies in place do not cover all types of harm that can occur during the foster parent–child relationship. Certain policies leave children who are harmed by their foster parents’ negligence unable to recover any damages from the people who have harmed them. Because foster parents can be left to defend the actions themselves, they often become judgment proof due to their low income, leaving the children who are harmed with little chance of recovery.

Key Points for the Family Court Community:
• States need to require foster parents to obtain liability insurance, which covers harm done by the foster children to third parties, harm to the home, and any harm done to the child by the foster parents.

     

简议范仲淹的司法改革思想

文章集中论述了北宋改革家范仲淹在庆历新政中推行司法改革 ,提出加强司法监督 ,强化刑部职能 ,重命令 ,准律文 ,慎选司法官吏等重大指施 ,充分地反映了范仲淹的司法改革思想     

上级命令不免责原则中相关概念的分析

上级命令不免除责任原则是国际刑法的基本原则之一。对该原则中的上级命令“明显非法”、“道德选择”、“胁迫”等有关概念作进一步的剖析。     

CPS与ERP测谎方法不同测试顺序优越性的比较研究

ERP测谎技术作为一种新兴的测试技术不断应用于实际测试过程中，而为了保证测试的准确性，往往会将ERP测谎技术和CPS测谎技术结合使用。但两种测谎技术的测试顺序是否会对测试结论存在影响还无定论，因此文章拟利用同一模拟案件情境对被测人分别进行CPS和ERP测谎，并以测试顺序为变量来分析不同的测试顺序对测试结论是否具有显著影响，以期为心理测试实践提供一定的参考意见。     

Privacy,anonymity and liability: Will anonymous communicators have the last laugh?

In this paper, the author sets out the way in which the UK approach to privacy protection is able to extend its reach to anonymous postings. Whilst anonymity might sometimes be seen as one of the essential characteristics of communicating on-line, it does not provide an impenetrable veil of protection in respect of a privacy violation claim. Instead, there are avenues available to identify anonymous communicators, which have implications both for internet freedom and jurisdiction in cyberspace. In the UK, our common law has not denied bloggers, or other on-line contributors, anonymity per se. However, it will be argued that recent UK judgments represent a warning to anonymous communicators that they can be held liable for what they post on-line and that naivety is no defence at law. Whilst on-line platforms allow people to effectively become journalists; to become publishers, as familiar users, they should become more aware of the consequences of their on-line postings and appreciate that they will not be able to escape from the application of third party disclosure orders. However, as these are not without their problems, it is possible that anonymous communicators may have the last laugh.