scholarly journals Ensuring a balance of interests in disputes regarding the mandatory vaccination

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Olena Antoniuk ◽  
Yuliia Pavliuchenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Vaccine Safety ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
School Education ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Balance Of Interests ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination

The establishment of compulsory preventive vaccinations raises a problem of balance with the right to personal integrity and the need to consent to medical intervention. The severity of this problem is added by the established restrictions on the implementation of individual rights of citizens, for example, the right to preschool and school education. The purpose of this article is to concretize the criteria for assessing the balance of interests in disputes regarding the mandatory vaccination. The study concluded that the provisions of the law on compulsory preventive vaccinations indicate an excess of public interest over private interests of individuals. The analysis of legislative norms on the issuance of a certificate, which is necessary for admission to preschool and school education, is carried out.Based on, conclusions were drawn about its content, the dependence of its issuance on the availability of all mandatory preventive vaccinations, the distribution of duties of a doctor and a healthcare institution lackingall such vaccinations. It is argued that when a court is considering cases, the balance between the private interest of a particular person and the public interest in health protection is assessed through the legality and proportionality of interference with human rights. Based on the analysis of a number of court decisions, it was concluded that the proportionality of the intervention is achieved if the state: a) has given the right to choose a person (including the child's parents) to carry out mandatory preventive vaccinations or not; b) created equal conditions for children to receive, regardless of whether or not they have compulsory vaccination of school education; c) provides guarantees of vaccine safety for mandatory vaccinations. It is substantiated that the balance of interests will also be observed if a person can exercise the right to compensation for harm in court if the preventive vaccination entailed harm to health or was carried out without the consent of the person (legal representative in cases provided for by law), or using a low-quality, inadmissible for use in accordance with the procedure established by law, vaccines. Keywords: medical intervention, the right to personal integrity, compulsory preventive vaccinations, the right to education, proportionality of interference with human rights, balance of interests, criteria for assessing the balance of interests.

scholarly journals Governing Knowledge: Intellectual Property Management for Development and the Public Interest

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Leonardo Burlamaqui
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Intellectual Property Management ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
The Right

The core point of this paper is the hypothesis that in the field of intellectual property rights and regulations, the last three decades witnessed a big change. The boundaries of private (or corporate) interests have been hyper-expanded while the public domain has significantly contracted. It tries to show that this is detrimental to innovation diffusion and productivity growth. The paper develops the argument theoretically, fleshes it out with some empirical evidence and provides a few policy recommendations on how to redesign the frontiers between public and private spaces in order to produce a more democratic and development-oriented institutional landscape. The proposed analytical perspective developed here, “Knowledge Governance”, aims to provide a framework within which, in the field of knowledge creation and diffusion, the dividing line between private interests and the public domain ought to be redrawn. The paper’s key goal is to provide reasoning for a set of rules, regulatory redesign and institutional coordination that would favor the commitment to distribute (disseminate) over the right to exclude.Keywords: knowledge management, intellectual property, patent, public, interest, public sector, private sector, socioeconomic developmen

scholarly journals The right to peaceful enjoyment of property and the security measure of the forfeiture of cash in the jurisprudence of the Serbian Constitutional Court: Certain uncertainty

Pravni zapisi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 620-644
Author(s):  
Tamás Korhecz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Security Measure ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Right

The right to peaceful enjoyment of property is a first-generation human right, protected by the international and domestic law of the highest rank. This is not an absolute right - the European standards of protecting property rights allow possible interferences prescribed by law. The interferences can be made in the public interest but only under the assumption that the proportionality between the public interest and property rights of individuals at stake is established. Forfeiture of undeclared cash the individuals are transferring across state borders, together with imposing fines for a misdemeanor, represent an interference with individuals' property rights. The EU Member States do not share an identical system of sanctions for this petty offense, but there is a tendency of unification related to the monitoring, registering, and sanctioning of undeclared, cross-border, individual cash transfer. The case-law of the European Court of Human Rights has established rather precise criteria for distinguishing permitted from unpermitted interferences in cases of undeclared cross-border cash transfers. The Serbian Constitutional Court has been faced with several constitutional complaints regarding alleged unconstitutionally of the imposed security measure amounting to the forfeiture of undeclared cash physically transferred across the state borders. The Constitutional Court has ruled inconsistently on the matter. Although it has regularly referred to the European Court of Human Rights' relevant decisions, it fails to be consistent in following the Strasbourg Court's rulings. In this article, the author has suggested that the legal certainty principle requires the Constitutional Court to consistently interpret the constitutional rights and be systematic in following Strasbourg. Only in this way, the Constitutional Court can help regular courts effectively to harmonize the interpretation and application of laws with the constitutional and international human rights standards regarding property rights.

Public Servitudes for the Certain Types of Facilities Placing: Towards a Discussion on Public Interest Presence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.P. Ushakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Private Interest ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Arbitrary Decision ◽  
The Right

From the standpoint of the dominant interest criterion the article examines the justification of the legislator`s decision to apply public law methods in order to regulate relations concerning the use of land for infrastructural facilities placing. The author gives the arguments in favor of understanding the public interest as the interest of the whole society as a system, rather than the interest of an indefinite range of persons or the majority of the population. The author concludes that there is the simultaneous presence in the specified legal relations and private interests of the participants of legal relations, and public interests of society as a system. Both types of interests in these legal relations are important, but in terms of different aspects of the legal impact mechanism. Public interest is important because its realization is the purpose of legal regulation of this type of legal relations, from this point of view it acts as a dominant interest. The private interest of the holder of a public servitude is important as an incentive to attract the efforts of private individuals to achieve a publicly significant goal. The private interest of a land plot owner is important from the point of view of securing the right of ownership. It is substantiated that the public servitude is not an arbitrary decision of the legislator, but an example of application of the incentive method in the land law, which provides a favorable legal regime for a socially useful activity.

The Right to Health

2018 ◽  
pp. 231-264
Author(s):  
Sandra Fredman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Is health a human right? Many would maintain that it is not. On this view health and ill-health are due to natural causes, not to State actions. Others are concerned that health raises too many polycentric problems to be dealt with through justiciable human rights. These contestations have shaped the way in which the right to health is understood. Section II sketches out the health context. Section III considers jurisdictions in which there is no express right to health, but a right has been derived from rights to life, personal integrity, or privacy. Section IV contrasts this approach with jurisdictions with an express right to health. Section V examines the role of the right to equality, while section VI focuses on reproductive health. The final section returns to the challenges of polycentricity and the extent to which a justiciable right can address systemic issues rather than individual rights to medication.

scholarly journals SEBUAH WACANA HAM TENTANG “HAK ATAS KEPEMILIKAN”

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Nalom Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Among vatious rights in the human rights discourse. The right of ownership is one of the rightswhich is interesting to discuss. It is because regulations of rights of ownership is not stated inthe derivation of the UDHCR (ICCPR/ICESCR) covenant. Moreover, various concepts andviews on the rights of ownership have different characteristics and uniqueness. Protection ofthe right of ownership may conflict with other rights (public interest).

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF PREVIOUSLY EXPRESSED WISHES REGARDING MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS IN MEDICAL LAW OF UKRAINE: STATE AND PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 58-65
Author(s):  
G.V. Puchkova ◽  
L.P. Bohutska
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Right

The aim. The aim of the article is to study the implementation of the principle of autonomy in the medical law of Ukraine, to determine the compliance of the medical legislation of Ukraine with the specified principle in terms of the exercising of the human right to express wishes for the provision of medical care in the future in case if a patient cannot personally express such wishes. Materials and methods. The authors have studied the European standards and practice of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the right of a person to participate in the decision-making process on the provision of medical care, scientific works of specialists in the field of medical law, dedicated to the patient's right to informed consent to medical intervention, the right to refuse treatment and ethical standards of legal regulation of relations with the participation of patients using the formal-logical method, the method of structural analysis, comparative method and legal modeling. Results. The study has found that there are gaps in the normative regulation of the patient's right to participate in the decision-making process in the provision of medical care, which carries a potential danger of violating the right to respect for private and family life, guaranteed by the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Conclusions. It is proposed to eliminate these gaps by ratifying the Oviedo Convention by Ukraine, implementation of the institution of previously expressed wishes in the national legislation, determining the mechanism for drawing up, changing and revoking previously expressed medical directives, the designation an authorized person in case a patient is unable to independently express his or her own wishes for the provision of medical care taking into account the European experience, cultural characteristics of Ukrainian society, the state of functioning of the institutional and legal systems and the level of development of biology and medicine.

scholarly journals Ensuring a Balance Between Public and Private Interests in the Implementation of Quarantine Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-340
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Lazur ◽  
Tetyana Karabin ◽  
Oleksander Martyniuk ◽  
Oleksandr Bukhanevych ◽  
Oksana Kanienberh-Sandul
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Fiscal Stimulus ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

Under the influence of the spread of coronavirus infection, the world community has faced difficult challenges that provoke changes in the seemingly already stabilized legal regulation, putting at risk the settlement of human rights and the common good. The study aims to find effective mechanisms for balancing human rights and public interests in the context of their legal regulation. Specifically, this study is focused on the mechanisms of balancing private and public interests in the implementation of quarantine measures in the Covid-19 pandemic. The research methods were both general scientific and special methods, in particular: formal legal, historical and legal, analysis and synthesis. To perform the tasks of the work, the following structure was used: after some initial precisions, there are provided some considerations about the fiscal stimulus measures and about the exercise of the right of derogation; then, the study deals with the problem of lawmaking in a pandemic; and finally it is considered the threats to intellectual property in the sphere of healthcare. The results of the work show that the pandemic has seriously hit the balance between private and public interests. The public interests of the government and society have become a priority, but in many cases, the measures that infringe private interests are disproportionate, untimely and inefficient.

scholarly journals Confidential Information and the Right to Freedom of Speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 648-651
Author(s):  
Svitlana Bevz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Right

The article is devoted to the problem of ensuring balance in the realization of two fundamental human rights and freedoms in a democratic society – the right to freedom of speech and privacy. It has been concluded that the rights to freedom of speech and privacy are recognized as fundamental human rights that do not conflict with each other but are intangible, inherent in every person. The right to freedom of journalism is a continuation of the right to freedom of speech and information and consists in the collection, storage, and dissemination of socially important information through the mass media. The usage of the rights in question, including in the mass media actions, may not be grounds for restricting or violating the right of everyone to privacy, the confidentiality of correspondence, correspondence, telephone conversations, and entails criminal liability in cases provided by law. In the public interest, the law provides grounds for exempting a journalist from criminal liability for disclosing confidential information, in particular in the case of disclosure of information of public interest or has already been published in other media, or concerns officials of public authorities.

Reconstructing the European Court of Human Rights’ Article 8 Jurisprudence in Deportation Cases: The Family’s Right and the Public Interest

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-360
Author(s):  
Jonathan Collinson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Court ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Abstract This article rationalises the case law of the European Court of Human Rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in deportation cases involving children. The Court engages in a balancing exercise between the right to family life of the deportee’s family on the one side, and the public interest in deportation on the other. This article expands on existing case law analysis by suggesting that in deportation cases, the Court considers Article 8 as a form of commonly held right, rather than an individual right held by one member of the family. Furthermore, the balance is argued to be constructed as a relationship between two factors on both sides, rather than of a sole factor on either side as being determinative. This article concludes that the best interests of the child (one of the ‘Üner criteria’) is not adequately reflected in the Court’s deportation decision-making practice.

Право на жизнь как ценность

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Анастасия Сергеевна Шабанова
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The right to life is the highest value, is the basis of all other human rights and freedoms, but Russian legislation does not contain a definition of a person's life. In legal science, the right to life is interpreted as the right of the individual to freedom and personal integrity, health protection, reducing the problem to the abolition of the death penalty and euthanasia. The article deals with issues that are especially relevant in connection with the development of artificial methods of reproduction: from when does the right to life arise and whether the embryo has a legal value.

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