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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

Are Pain and Suffering Awards (Un-)Predictable? Evidence from Germany

Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni, Andrea M. Leiter, Hannes Winner
This paper assesses the widely held belief that damages for pain and suffering are random or arbitrary. In detail, we investigate whether damages for pain and suffering are systematically affected by individual-, injury- and procedural-specific characteristics and how important these factors are relative to each other. To uncover the predictability...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

Transparency in Public Procurement – the Case of Slovenia

Matej Kirn, Lan Umek, Iztok Rakar
Public procurement is one of the key points of contact between public administration and the economy, while the amount of public resources is a possible source of conflict of interest and corruption. The article aims to contribute to improvements in public procurement legislation and practice. The article examines the practice of supervisory bodies...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

The Centre of Government as the Coordination Point for the Implementation of General Legal Rules

Mirko Pečarič
This paper aims to establish a degree of existence of Hayek’s idea of governmental assembly in the Centre of Government (CoG), which is not only the technical, administrative support for the Prime Minister but has also a regulatory-coordinative, policy role. This paper’s focus is on CoG that is along with the classical tasks of the Prime Minister’s...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

Intelligence Information within Criminal Proceedings

Adrián Vaško
The purpose of this article is to study the possibility of using intelligence in criminal proceedings in the Slovak Republic. The author examines the current legislation related to the examined issue in the context of criminal procedural law. The aim of the study is to analyze and justify the possibility of using intelligence in criminal...
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Volume 10 (2019): Issue 3 (September 2019)

Damages for Personal Injuries – in Labour and Service Law

Leopold Skoruša, Ondřej Horák, Radim Vičar, Tomáš Zbořil
The contribution will be devoted to the comparison of damages for non-proprietary loss in public and private sphere. The regulation of service relationship will be analysed in public area, in private area the legal regulation of health injuries in labour law. The aim of the contribution will be a critical analysis of the current state of legal...
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