The Criminalization of Workplace Harassment and Abuse

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Alan Bogg ◽  
Mark Freedland
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Workplace Harassment ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Organizational Framing ◽  
Extensive Body

This chapter considers the legal treatment of workplace harassment and abuse. In the wake of social and political activism focused on sexual harassment, the legal regulation of harassment has been under intensive scrutiny. In the English context, harassment is already regulated by an extensive body of legal norms. The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is an interesting example where legislation provides for parallel tortious and criminal liability for the same wrong. The chapter develops the idea that criminal liability has had a ‘dragging’ effect on the civil liability regime, the effect of which has been to undermine the effectiveness of the legal response. This is because the paradigm of criminal liability has treated harassment as a personalized wrong, reflecting the structure of the criminal process to allocate censure and blame to culpable agents. The effect of this has been to obscure the structural and organizational context to harassment and abuse, which propagates in circumstances of insecurity, precarity, and non-decent work. As an alternative, the chapter defends an organizational framing of criminal liability based upon a health and safety model. It develops this model of criminal liability drawing upon the value of human dignity.

scholarly journals РОССИЯ И КИТАЙ: СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВА В ОБЛАСТИ БОРЬБЫ С ДОПИНГОМ

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
В. В. Литовченко
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
National Level ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Right

Спорт высших достижений является отражением экономического и политического влияния на международном уровне. Россия со времен СССР, являясь одним из мировых лидеров, занимала ведущие позиции в мировом спорте. Вместе с тем последние события в сфере крупных международных соревнований, серьёзные допинг-скандалы, отстранение ведущих спортсменов от соревнований показывают, что успех в современном спорте высших достижений неизменно связан с правильной трактовкой и реализацией на национальном уровне международно-правовых норм, связанных с допингом. Особую роль занимает уголовно-правовая охрана «чистоты» спорта от преступных посягательств в сфере использования и оборота допинговых средств. Автором проанализированы основы законодательства Российской Федерации и Китайской Народной Республики в области противодействия применению запрещённых препаратов в спорте. Осуществлена оценка на-ционального законодательства двух стран в контексте их соответствия междуна-родно-правовым договорам и соглашениям. Проведён сравнительный анализ действующих административных и уголовно-правовых норм. Систематизированы ос-новные положения и подходы в правовом регулировании данной сферы в России и Китае. Отдельно рассмотрены нормы, регламентирующие уголовную ответствен-ность за преступные деяния, в которых допинг является предметом преступления. Также в работе уделяется внимание уголовной политике в сфере борьбы с использованием допинга национальными спортсменами. Автор приходит к выводу, что две страны – на правильном пути, модифицируя нормы, касающиеся допинга, в соответствии с текущими реалиями спорта высших достижений. Несмотря на необ-ходимость внесения некоторых изменений, в дальнейшем принятые меры в России и Китае должны дать положительный результат. Ключевые слова: спорт высших достижений, законодательство, существующее в России и в КНР, субъекты международной спортивной деятельности, правоотношения, ответственность, борьба с допингом, незаконное употребление, наказание. The sport of records reflects the economic and political influence at the international level. Since the times of the USSR, Russia has been one of the world leaders, hold-ing leading positions in world sports. At the same time, the latest events in the sphere of large international competitions, serious doping scandals, banishment of the leading athletes from the competitions demonstrate that a success in modern sports of the highest achievements is inevitably connected with the correct interpretation and implementation of international legal norms related to doping at the national level. A special role is played by criminal legal protection of sport "cleanliness" from criminal encroachments in the sphere of use and circulation of doping means. The author analyzed the basics of legislation of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China in the sphere of counteraction to the use of prohibited drugs in sport. National legislation of the two countries was assessed in the context of their compliance with international legal treaties and agreements. A comparative analysis of existing administrative and criminal legal norms was made. The main provisions and approaches to legal regulation in this area in Russia and China were systematized. The norms regulating criminal liability for criminal acts in which doping is a subject of crime are considered separately. Also, attention is paid to criminal policy in the sphere of struggle against doping by national sportsmen. The author comes to the conclusion that the two countries are on the right track by modifying the norms concerning doping according to the current realities of the high-performance sport. Despite the necessity to make some changes in the future, the measures taken in Russia and China should give positive results. Keywords: sport of records, legislation existing in Russia and the PRC, subjects of international sports activities, legal relations, liability, the fight against doping, illegal use, punishment.

scholarly journals Problematic issues of qualifying actions encroaching upon persons executing justice or preliminary investigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Aleksander Nikolayevich Varygin ◽  
Irina Alekseyevna Efremova ◽  
Vladimir Gennadyevich Gromov ◽  
Pavel Anatolyevich Matushkin ◽  
Anastasiya Mikhaylovna Shuvalova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Structural Methods

A prerequisite for this research is a high public hazard of violent crimes committed against persons executing justice or preliminary investigation since this shakes the foundation of justice and buttress of state power in general. This suggests the need to research the prevention of such crimes using criminal legal methods. The primary goal of the research lies in the analysis of the modern condition and development of relevant proposals to improve the current criminal law of the Russian Federation in terms of regulation of criminal liability for the discussed criminal offenses, which will have a positive effect on their prevention. Research methods: dialectical method of cognition, as well general scientific (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, logical, systemic-structural methods) and particular methods of cognition (scientifically statistical, formally legal). The novelty is related to an integrated approach to research the problem of prevention of the discussed offenses and proposals developed on this basis to improve the Russian Federation criminal law, which will increase efficiency in the prevention of these offenses. Results: efficiency of preventing such offenses greatly depends on clear legal regulation of legal norms suggesting criminal liability for committing them. There is a pressing need to complement the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation with new wordings of these elements of crimes and changes that would allow formulating a definitive norm clearly defining the scope of persons affected and adopting a Plenum Decree at this stage for this category of criminal cases, which would clarify the implementation of evaluative categories of the discussed elements of crimes.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF LABOR RIGHTS OF DOMESTIC WORKERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
V. Andriiv ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Protection ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Hired Labor

The article addresses the analysis of international legal acts that regulate the labor relations of domestic workers, as well as related problems. The peculiarities of such regulation and its characteristic features are determined. Due to the fact that the problem of regulating the activities of employees who perform work on household services under the employment contract today is global in nature, it is relevant to many countries around the world concerning the basic standards and guarantees for those employed under the contract and engaged in housework. The means established by law to provide decent work conditions for domestic workers, as well as protection against discrimination, various forms of violence and interference in the privacy of domestic workers are determined. The methodological basis of the study were general and special methods of cognition. The dialectical method examines the problems of legal regulation of international norms of employment of domestic workers and their relation to a number of trends that have different effects on international labor law. Formal-logical and systematic methods were used in the study of the content of international legal acts governing the employment of domestic workers. The main result of the study is the regulation through international legal acts of relations concerned with the use of hired labor of domestic workers, improving its conditions, protection against discrimination and creating conditions for the free exercise of their ability to work within national laws as well as for comparative legal analysis and ways of existing systems improvement. Emphasis is also placed on increasing the role and need for recognition of legal mechanisms for the protection of labor rights of domestic workers, improvement of international legal norms aiming at their protection.

scholarly journals Modern Requirements of the Legal Support of Artificial Intelligence: a View from Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Shestak ◽  
Aleksander Volevodz
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Republic

At the present stage of the society’s development the artificial intelligence is quickly widening its possibilities. These changes raise the issue of applying norms, including international law norms, to solve problems connected with the essence and technical protocol of using artificial intelligence. The article is devoted to the problems of legal regulation of the creation and use of artificial intelligence and the development of the conceptual framework and the definition of artificial intelligence according to the widely recognized scientific theories; the analysis of doctrinal approaches to the understanding of the place of artificial intelligence in legal relations; the evidence that giving artificial intelligence the status of a person is not legally grounded; the critical analysis of the ideas put forward by some American researchers that artificial intelligence should comply with the whole set of laws currently used for its human producer and operator. The authors study the legislation on the legal regulation of relations between the human and artificial intelligence in such countries as the Republic of Korea, the USA, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Estonia, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Russian Federation, as well as the European Union. They present various approaches to the classification of artificial intelligence’s features. The authors also examine the problem of defining the legal personality of an «electronic person»; analyze the necessity of making the owner liable for the compensation of moral and material damage inflicted by the «electronic person». The article also discusses key problems of enforcing the legal norms regulating intellectual property and copyright, criminal liability and participation in criminal proceedings within the framework of using artificial intelligence. The authors analyze key risks and uncertainties connected with artificial intelligence and crucial for improving relevant legislation. They work out suggestions for the future discussion of the following issues: the applications of artificial intelligence at the contemporary stage; development prospects in this sector; legally relevant problems researched of this sphere and the problems connected with the use of the existing and the development of new autonomous intelligence systems; the development of new strategies and legal norms to bridge the gaps in the legal regulation of using artificial intelligence, including using it as a participant in criminal proceedings; creation of the concept of liability in the sphere of using artificial intelligence, including the criminal one.

scholarly journals FORMALLY UNCERTAIN TERMS AS A MEANS OF LEGAL INFLUENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Оleksandr Kurakin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Norm ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The Subject

The effectiveness of legal influence on relations in modern society is determined along with other factors and the perfection of legal terminology used in regulations. The need to improve the quality of legal activity in Ukraine necessitates the study of the regulatory possibilities of legal terms, among which a special place is occupied by formally indefinite terms that cause formal uncertainty of legal norms. The use of formally indefinite terms in legal norms and the issue of legal influence in the domestic literature are not specifically considered, respectively, need further study to formulate certain scientific generalizations and practical recommendations that can be used to improve the legal regulation of public relations in Ukraine. The author proposes to consider the valuation concepts as enshrined in the legal norm abstract characteristics of the social significance of real or potential facts. It must be specified during its application or implementation. This ensures the legal response of the state to all individualized facts, which are characterized by the significance fixed in the legal norm. In addition, the specific features of intermediate concepts that distinguish them from the evaluative and formally defined are highlighted. Analyzing them, the author concludes that the categories of "legal regulation" and "legal influence" are correlated as general and specific, and the boundary separating them is quite conditional. Noting the inseparability of legal influence and legal regulation, the author points out that at the same time does not deprive them of differences. The subject of legal regulation is somewhat narrower than the subject of legal influence. The latter includes such economic, political and social relations, which are not regulated by law, but to which they in one way or another extend their influence. If legal regulation, as a special legal influence, in any case is associated with the establishment of specific rights and obligations of subjects, with direct instructions about what is necessary and possible, the legal influence is not always. The relationship, unity and separation of legal influence and legal regulation suggest the need for a generalized approach to these legal phenomena. This position is confirmed by the author, focusing on formally vague norms, in particular those that contain intermediate concepts. Such concepts have a special ability to act as a means of legal influence, both related and unrelated to legal regulation. This ability stems from the properties of intermediate concepts, primarily from the ability to be a means and source (and this is the influence) of legal regulation. Summing up, the author notes that one of the means of legal influence, which accompanies legal regulation and is not directly related to it, are formally vague, in particular, intermediate (semi-valued) concepts. The study of this category of legal terms, their place and role in legal techniques, the ability to regulate public relations and influence them is one of the ways to determine ways to improve the legal regulation of social relations in the modern state.

Characteristics of Legislation on Legal Relations of Information Dissemination

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-23
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Legal Norms

Information and telecommunication technologies have radically changed all social relations. This required corresponding changes in the information legislation. System of legal norms regulating information relations has been updated and increased. However, this changes did not improve legal regulation of information relations. Scientists emphasize that imperfection of information legislation depends on inadequacy of legal norms. Legal scholarship discover different defects of legal norms: antilogy, deficiency of law, inadequacy in logic, duplications and declarativity of norms. Legislation on information dissemination is also characterized by these defects. They entailed problems of application by the courts. Scientific immaturity of legal regulation of information relations is noted. The necessity for creating special legal act, which will regulate relations on information dissemination, is justified.

New Approaches to Understanding Judicial Ethics in the Information

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-32
Author(s):  
E. V. Burdina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Judicial Administration ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Subject

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problems of the essence and content of judicial ethics in the new conditions of the technical revolution and with other social needs for legal regulation. Theoretical Basis. Methods. The work used a systematic, activity-personal approach to the study of moral and ethical standards of the conduct of judges. This made it possible to reveal a new and broader view on judicial ethics, which is not simply a set of moral restrictions and obligations imposed on a judge. Results. The work has identified and analysed the signs of judicial ethics at the current stage of development. It is argued that ethical regulation is precautionary in relation to the legal regulation of the independence of judges, for they complement ethical rules and reinforce legal norms. The ethical conduct of judges is an instrument guaranteeing judicial independence in all of its manifestations, including in organisational and judicial relations. The new realities of our time recognise the expansion of boundaries and the subject area itself of ethical regulation. A broader view on judicial ethics, which differs from the traditional one, is hereby justified. The latter is defined in two ways – namely both as a system of professional values, as well as a means of judicial administration based on the principle of self-regulation. By its very nature, judicial ethics is the result (and the way) of judicial self-governance, developed on the basis of the experience of functioning bodies of the judicial community. Discussion and Conclusion. Conclusions are drawn on both the instrumental and the managerial impact of the categories of ethics. The subject of judicial ethics has been defined, which constitutes the rules of conduct of judges in the performance of their professional duties and beyond – namely the set of general principles of work of a judge, as well as the personal qualities of a judge personifying the judicial power. Proposals on the optimisation of the mechanism of ethical influence, differentiation of ethical and disciplinary norms have also been substantiated.

Zur Frage der doktrinellen Auslegung des Artikels 61 Pkt. 3 der Verfassung der Republik Kasachstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Ermek B. Abdrasulov
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Business

This article examines the issues of differentiation of legislative and subordinate regulation of public relations. It is noted that in the process of law-making activities, including the legislative process, practical questions often arise about the competence of various state bodies to establish various legal norms and rules. These issues are related to the need to establish a clear legal meaning of the constitutional norms devoted to the definition of the subject of regulation of laws. In particular, there is a need to clarify the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article 61 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan in terms of the concepts "the most important public relations", "all other relations", "subsidiary legislation", as well as to establish the relationship between these concepts. Interpretation is also required by the provisions of p. 4 of Article 61 of the Constitution in terms of clarifying the question of whether the conclusion follows from mentioned provisions that all possible social relations in the Republic of Kazakhstan are subject to legal regulation, including those that are subject to other social and technical regulators (morality, national, business and professional traditions and customs, religion, standards, technical regulations, etc.). Answering the questions raised, the author emphasizes that the law and bylaws, as a rule, constitute a single system of legislation, performing the functions of primary and secondary acts. However, the secondary nature of subsidiary legislation does not mean that they regulate "unimportant" public relations. The law is essentially aimed at regulating all important social relations.

Dispositive Model of Active Legal Capacity of People with Mental Disabilities in France and Quebec in the Context of the Russian Civil Code Reform (Part II)

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Terdi E. S. ◽  
◽  
Skrynnik I. K. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Legal Method

The article is devoted to the problem of the inconsistency of the Russian imperative model of active legal capacity, according to which the content of active legal capacity in case of its restriction due to mental disability of a person is prescribed by the law, to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ratified by Russia in 2012. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the shortcomings of the imperative model, the main of which is the lack of authority of the Russian court to individually determine the consequences of restriction of active legal capacity of a person due to mental disorder, taking in account degree of actual decrease of his cognitive and volitional abilities. This purpose is achieved by the consistent implementation of the following tasks. First of all, characteristic of the Russian imperative model of active legal capacity is given. Secondly, the French dispositive model of legal capacity is described. In this model the forms of legal protection, but not the categories of active legal capacity, incapacitation and restricted active legal capacity are the backbone concepts for the legal regulation of this group of relationship. It is noted that under the influence of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities the more progressive, from the point of view of international law, forms of this model are stipulated in many foreign countries. Thirdly, the evolved form of the French dispositive model of active legal capacity, implemented in the Bill 18 «An Act to amend the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Public Curator Act and various provisions as regards the protection of persons», that was adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec in 2 June 2020, is analyzed. The main advantage of the latter is that the court, establishing the form of protection, is not bound by the legal norms that imperatively determine the content of active legal capacity of a person with mental disorder. The court is able, based on the cognitive and volitional abilities of particular person, to individually determine which acts person can perform by himself, alone or with the assistance of the tutor, and which one can be performed by the tutor only. The objectives of the study determine the leading role of the comparative legal method in its implementation. The provided research makes possible to assess the perspectives of borrowing of French or Quebec dispositive models of active legal capacity of people with mental disorder by the Russian legislator.

scholarly journals Digital Technology in Labor Relations

Legal Concept ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Nayra Abuzyarova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government

Introduction: the emergence of such freelancing as remote labor meant the beginning of the process of the flexible virtual law formation. “Cloud computing” is coming into life. There appear the concepts of “working in the cloud” only in the virtual (digital) space, so the government program “Digital economy in the Russian Federation” of July 28, 2017, No. 1632-P adopted in the framework of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 9, 2017 provided the need for the formation of a comprehensive legislative regulation of relations arising in connection with the digital economy development. At the same time, it is specifically noted that the labor market should be based on its requirements in order to create productive employment. Methods: the methodological framework for this study is the methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main ones are the methods of consistency, analysis and comparative law. Results: the paper is devoted to the existing problems of the legal regulation of digital technologies in labor relations for the expedient and empirical updating of many legal norms, from which in the future it will be possible to start, change and supplement it, adhering to a fundamental change in labor relations in order to develop non-standard and fruitful employment. Conclusions: as a result of the conducted research it is established that in the Russian Federation the labor legislation regulating the electronic legal employment relations is fragmented and does not contain all the elements of the legal regulation. There is a need for the legislation on archive business in electronic form, the widespread introduction of electronic employment contracts, which can serve as the basis for the electronic personnel records management. The labor legislation should contain the provisions on the equivalence of an electronic labor contract to a written form.

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