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Pri Visual Capitalist so grafično ponazorili, koliko cepiva proti nalezljivi bolezni COVID-19 je kupila posamezna država oziroma skupnost držav, kot sta denimo EU in ZDA. Največ cepiva je kupila EU, in sicer kar 21,9 %, ZDA 13,9 %, globalna iniciativa COVAX pa 9,7 %.
Vir: Visual Capitalist.
Sodniki si prizadevajo pojasniti pravno izrazoslovje na različne načine, pri čemer so včasih bolj, včasih manj uspešni. Nekateri posegajo po antičnih ali verskih prispodobah in ljudskih rekih, drugi pa kar po znanih filmskih likih in zgodbah. Slovenski sodniki so zadržani pri pretiranem poenostavljanju obrazložitev, zato v sodbah slovenskih sodišč ne bomo naleteli denimo na živopisne junake, ki nastopajo v Vojni zvezd.
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Predstavništvo Evropske komisije v Sloveniji jutri, 10. novembra 2015, pripravlja dialog z državljani z naslovom TTIP: kaj prinaša prostotrgovinski in naložbeni sporazum med EU in ZDA. Gosta bosta evropska komisarka za trgovino Cecilia Malström in državni sekretar na Ministrstvu za gospodarski razvoj in tehnologijo Aleš Cantarutti.
The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning. When new insight reveals discord between the Constitution’s central protections and a received legal stricture, a claim to liberty must be addressed. ?
The States have contributed to the fundamental character of the marriage right by placing that institution at the center of so many facets of the legal and social order.
There is no difference between same- and opposite-sex couples with respect to this principle. Yet by virtue of their exclusion from that institution, same-sex couples are denied the constellation of benefits…
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For centuries, courts have struggled to protect the mentally ill while also trying to distinguish between sanity and insanity. In the 1700s, the British courts relied on the “wild beast” test as their barometer for the latter: if the defendant’s understanding of his crime was no better than that of a infant or beast, he couldn’t be found guilty. From there, the insanity defense began its tortuous evolution.
In 1843, a Scottish woodcutter named Daniel M’Naghten attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister Robert Peel, shooting and killing his secretary instead. M’Naghten believed that Peel and the British government had singled him out for persecution and were responsible for all his personal and financial woes. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and acquitted, leading to public outrage over the verdict.
In response, the House of Lords and a panel of the Queen’s judges put together the M’Naghten…
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