Legal Perspectives on the Death Penalty and Abortion

Legitimate Ways to End Life

Legitimate ways to end life include self-defense, resistance to lawful detention, a legitimate prison escape, and disclosure to a legitimate authority. (This is based on the European Pact on Human Rights 1950, as recorded in the minutes of the Ortuzar Committee).

Death Penalty

The death penalty is defined as the “biological termination of an individual’s life, and due to its radical nature, it is surrounded by a series of safeguards.” The right to life is a moral absolute,

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Fundamental Rights in the Spanish Constitution: Interpretation and Legal Rationality

Fundamental Rights in the Spanish Constitution of 1978

Objective and Subjective Status of Fundamental Rights

The objective status of the statute states that rights are legal standards, working as legal duties or obligations. Since the rights were transferred to be positivism as standards, the nature of legal rules is their objective status. This means that generally, there are no more rights for citizens than those enshrined in constitutions.

Moreover, regarding subjective status, one could say that

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Understanding the Sources and Classification of Law

The Sources of Law

As we have concluded, the law is a normative order that consists of rules. When we talk about sources of law, the word “source” brings us to the idea of origin. The source of law can be used in several different ways.

Ultimate Foundation of Law

In the first meaning, it refers to the ultimate foundation of law. When we speak of law in general and not of a particular legal system, we are referring to the basis of the ultimate foundation. For example, when we say that God is the ultimate

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Employment Contract Termination: Notice Periods and Compensation in Argentina

Article 231: Time Limits (Law 25.877)

The employment contract may not be dissolved by the will of one party, without prior notice, or failing that, compensation in addition to that corresponding to the worker for their seniority in employment when the contract is dissolved by the will of the employer. When the parties have not determined a longer term, the notice must be given in advance as follows:

  • a) By the worker, fifteen (15) days.
  • b) By the employer, fifteen (15) days when the worker is in a probationary
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Labor Law Procedures: Dismissal, Sanctions, and More

Process Unit 12 Modality S

Process for Dismissal

A type of procedure established for the prosecution of workers’ claims seeking the revocation of unfair dismissal, with the respective legal consequences.

Processing procedure: It has the following characteristics with respect to the ordinary:

  • The action against the dismissal must be exercised within 20 days following that to which it was produced.
  • The dismissal claim must contain:
    • Workplace, age, and professional category of the fired employee, characteristics
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Occupational Risk Prevention: Health and Safety in the Workplace

Inducing Goals of the Law on the Prevention of Occupational Risks (PRL)

  • Prevention of occupational risks for the protection of health and safety.
  • Elimination or reduction of risks arising from work.
  • Information, consultation, participation, and training of workers on preventive measures.

What Features Make a Prevention Officer?

A prevention officer must be able to exercise specialized functions in terms of risk prevention at work.

What is the Purpose of the Single European Act?

The purpose is the protection

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