Loyalists, cynics and outsiders: who are the critics of the justice system in the UK and the Netherlands?

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Hertogh
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Legal Identification

AbstractRecent surveys in the UK and the Netherlands indicate that there is widespread dissatisfaction with the justice system. But who are these ‘critics’ of the justice system? Most previous studies only produced general statistics, while the persons behind the figures remained invisible. By contrast, this article aims to put a face to these numbers and discusses two ways of analysing the profile of the critics. Based on a review of existing survey data, the article first looks at their ‘demographic profile’. Next, the article also considers a second, alternative, approach. Based on their level of legal awareness and legal identification, it distinguishes four different ‘normative profiles’: legalists, loyalists, cynics and outsiders. Moreover, the article shows how these normative profiles may be applied in future comparative studies on legal mobilisation and legal protest. It is concluded that combining both approaches will help us to look beyond common stereotypes and consider the critics of the justice system as real persons with genuine concerns about the administration of justice in their country.

2. The English Legal system, Constitution, and Human Rights

Business Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-42
Author(s):  
James Marson ◽  
Katy Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk

This chapter, in discussing the English legal system and its features, begins by outlining what the law is and some important constitutional principles. The discussion is primarily based on the institutions and personnel involved in the practice and administration of justice. It therefore involves a description and evaluation of the courts, tribunals, and the judiciary, including their powers and the rationale for such authority, as well as the mechanisms of control and accountability. The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how the mechanisms of the justice system work. The English legal system exists to determine the institutions and bodies that create and administer a just system of law. It should be noted here that the UK does, in fact, possess a written constitution, it is merely uncodified.

2. Law, the Constitution, EU Membership, and Human Rights

Business Law ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Marson ◽  
Katy Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk

This chapter, in discussing the English legal system and its features, begins by outlining what the law is and some important constitutional principles. The discussion is primarily based on the institutions and personnel involved in the practice and administration of justice. It therefore involves a description and evaluation of the courts, tribunals, and the judiciary, including their powers and the rationale for such authority, as well as the mechanisms of control and accountability. The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how the mechanisms of the justice system work. The English legal system exists to determine the institutions and bodies that create and administer a just system of law. It should be noted here that the UK does, in fact, possess a written constitution, it is merely uncodified.

scholarly journals Are evaluative cultures national or global? A cross-national study on evaluative cultures in academic recruitment processes in Europe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Reymert ◽  
Jens Jungblut ◽  
Norway Siri B. Borlaug
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Recent Survey ◽  
National Study ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Cross National

AbstractStudies on academic recruitment processes have demonstrated that universities evaluate candidates for research positions using multiple criteria. However, most studies on preferences regarding evaluative criteria in recruitment processes focus on a single country, while cross-country studies are rare. Additionally, though studies have documented how fields evaluate candidates differently, those differences have not been deeply explored, thus creating a need for further inquiry. This paper aims to address this gap and investigates whether academics in two fields across five European countries prefer the same criteria to evaluate candidates for academic positions. The analysis is based on recent survey data drawn from academics in economics and physics in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Our results show that the academic fields have different evaluative cultures and that researchers from different fields prefer specific criteria when assessing candidates. We also found that these field-specific preferences were to some extent mediated through national frameworks such as funding systems.

Analysis of NSMB Wake Surveys on Victory Ship Models

1966 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Henry M. Cheng ◽  
Jacques B. Hadler
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Scale Effect ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Circumferential Velocity ◽  
Relative Amplitude ◽  
Ship Model ◽  
Absolute Amplitude ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Wake Survey

In this paper the wake survey data of a family of models of the Victory ships measured and reported by the Netherlands Ship Model Basin are further analyzed. The scale effect upon the circumferential mean wake velocity and the harmonic contents of the circumferential velocity distributions are examined. It was found that for the relative amplitude of the various harmonics of the circumferential velocity distributions, the scale effect does not seem to be important. However, the effect of scale on the absolute amplitude of various harmonics could not be established. Extrapolated curves of the circumferential mean and the volumetric mean velocities for the ship are presented. Also reported are the effects of roughness, the comparative studies regarding the symmetry and repeatability of measurements, and the effect of rudder.

scholarly journals In Absentia Trials and the Right to Defend: The Incorporation of a European Human Rights Principle into the Dutch Criminial Justice System

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evert F Stamhuis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Dutch Trial ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Right

In a case against the Netherlands the European Court on Human Rights gave an interpretation of a provision in the Convention that amounted to the recognition of a defence right that was historically and systematically alien to Dutch criminal procedure. The Dutch criminal justice authorities had to respond to implement that recognition in the domestic justice administration. Besides explaining the intricacies of the Dutch trial in absentia, very often considered in comparative studies to be a rather odd feature of Dutch law, this article provides an interesting demonstration of the process of transplanting foreign legal ideas.  

Asylum-seekers falsely implicating themselves in international crimes: Should they be informed of the existence of Article 1F of the Refugee Convention?

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Brian Moore ◽  
Joris van Wijk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Refugee Claim ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Governments

Case studies in the Netherlands and the UK of asylum applicants excluded or under consideration of exclusion pursuant to Article 1Fa of the Refugee Convention reveal that some applicants falsely implicated themselves in serious crimes or behaviours in order to enhance their refugee claim. This may have serious consequences for the excluded persons themselves, as well as for national governments dealing with them. For this reason we suggest immigration authorities could consider forewarning asylum applicants i.e. before their interview, about the existence, purpose and possible consequences of exclusion on the basis of Article 1F.

Unlock imagined: arts in criminal justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Alison Frater
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Optimistic Picture ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Causes Of Crime

Starting with a personal perspective this piece outlines the place and role of the arts in the criminal justice system in the UK. It paints an optimistic picture, though an unsettling one, because the imagination and reflexiveness of the arts reveals a great deal about the causes of crime and the consequences of incarceration. It raises questions about the transforming impact of the arts: how the benefits could, and should, be optimised and why evaluations of arts interventions are consistent in identifying the need for a non-coercive, more socially focused, paradigm for rehabilitation. It concludes that the deeper the arts are embedded in the criminal justice system the greater the benefits will be, that a more interdisciplinary approach would support better theoretical understanding, and that increased capacity to deliver arts in the criminal justice system is needed to offer more people a creative pathway out of crime.

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