Protection of Minors in UK Law

  • Trends of age of consent legislation in Europe
    • No. 8-1, March 2017
    • New Journal of European Criminal Law
    • 0000
    Over the past few decades, many national jurisdictions on the European continent have revised their age of consent legislation. A comparison of the age of consent laws of 59 jurisdictions in 2004 a...
    ... ... –signals that nowadays much greater emphasis is placed on the protection of children againstnegative and premature sexual experiences. This ... Thisacknowledgement of the need for increased protection of minors in relationships characterized bya power imbalance deserves following by ... ...
  • I Book Review: Unaccompanied Minors. Rights and Protection
    • No. 26-2, June 2008
    • Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
    • 0000
  • The Use of Alternative Regulatory Instruments to Protect Minors in the Digital Era: Applying Freedom of Expression Safeguards
    • No. 29-2, June 2011
    • Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
    • 0000
    Since the mid-1990s, it has become increasingly clear that legislation, used to protect minors against harmful content in traditional media, is not suitable to regulate the drastically transformed ...
    ... ... freedom of ex pression and aims to asse ss with which freedom of expression safeguards the ARIs must comply in order to guarantee the protection that this right entails. To achieve this, the article examines, on the one hand, the applicability of Article 10 ECHR with respect to ARIs, and, on ... ...
  • Lampedusa humanitarian emergency in 2011: the case of unaccompanied migrant minors
    • No. 19-3, July 2012
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 279-290
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the situation on the unaccompanied foreign minors in the Italian legal system, paying special attention to the Lampedusa humanitarian emergency in...
    ... ... – The legal treatment of these subjects is on the borderlinebetween two distinct sets of laws: those for minors, based on principles of protection and support; andthose for immigrants based on public security and therefore inspired by principles of controland defense. For this reason the ... ...
  • 10. General Conclusion
    • Cyber consumer law and unfair trading practices
    • Taylor and Francis
    • 305-311
    ... ... consumer protection. The existence of these failures demonstrates that the ... electronic ... minors. Consumer contracts formed in violation of these standards for ... ...
  • The Right to Privacy: an Emerging Right in Chinese Law
    • No. 18-3, 1997
    • Statute Law Review
    • 208-214
    ... ... The first considera- ... tion in China of the protection of privacy was a judicial interpretation by the ... Supreme People's Court ... sexual relations with minors; in indecent cases, indecent behaviour and insults ... towards a woman, ... ...
  • Preliminary Sections
    • The EU Digital Services Act - A Commentary
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals
    • 1-14
    ... ... manner and degree of surveillance and protection of users, and, frankly, for any other ... aspect that probably should not ... Article 28 Online protection of minors 218 ... SECTION 4 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PROVIDERS ... OF ... ...
  • Child trafficking victims and legal guardians: Exploring the fulfilment of the EU trafficking directive in the context of the UK modern Slavery Act 2015 – Best practice or not fit for purpose?
    • No. 10-2, June 2019
    • New Journal of European Criminal Law
    • 0000
    Child victims of trafficking are recognized as particularly vulnerable victims, who require additional protection and support and a more rigorous legal framework. The regional anti-trafficking inst...
    ... ... in England and Wales in recent years, withrecord number of minors referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2016. Running parallel ... has placed significant emphasis onreforming the approach to the protection for child trafficking victims, culminating in the intro-duction a specific ... ...
  • The Internet and the First Amendment
    • No. 61-3, May 1998
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... intellectual property rights, making pornography available to minors, disseminating hate speech, or defrauding or misleading others. The ... of ‘obscenity’ — are afforded no constitutional protection whatsoever. 5 Other types of communication, such as advertising, can be ... ...
  • HABERMAS’ MODELS OF DECISIONISM, TECHNOCRACY AND PRAGMATISM IN TIMES OF GOVERNANCE: THE RELATIONSHIP OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, POLITICS AND SCIENCE IN THE ALCOHOL PREVENTION POLICIES OF THE SWISS MEMBER STATES
    • No. 85-2, June 2007
    • Public Administration
    This article assesses the effects different constellations of science, administration and the political sphere display on the policy process in the field of alcohol prevention policy in the Swiss m...
    ... ... of the 26 cantons surveyed, 14 (66.7 per cent) described the protection of minors as a very or rather important component of their alcohol ... ...
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