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Persecution
Persecution, implies a failure by the State to make protection available against the ill-treatment or violence which the person suffers at the hands of his persecutors, Horvath v. Home Secretary [HL(E)], (2000) 3 WLR 379.Persecution, is most appropriately defined as the sustained or systemic failure of State protection in relation to one of the core entitlements which has been recognised by the international community, Law of Refugee Status (1991), p. 112.Persecution, is normally related to action by the authorities of a country. It may also emanate from sections of the population that do not respect the standards established by the laws of the country concerned. A case in point may be religious intolerance, amounting to persecution, in a country otherwise secular, but where sizable fractions of the population do not respect the religious beliefs of their neighbours. Where serious discriminatory or other offensive acts are committed by the local populace, they can be considered as pers...
guilty but mentally ill
guilty but mentally ill : a verdict available in some jurisdictions in cases involving an insanity defense in which the defendant is considered as if having been found guilty but is committed to a mental hospital rather than imprisoned if an examination shows a need for psychiatric treatment compare not guilty by reason of insanity ...
Mentally ill person
Mentally ill person, means a person who is in need of treatment by reason of any mental disorder other than mental retardation. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(l); see also Act (34 of 1971), s. 2(b)...
ill usage
cruel or inhumane treatment...
Children
Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 107, as meaning, for the purposes of the Act, a person under fourteen years of age. The (English) Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 47), makes provisions for Scotland similar to those of the corresponding English Act.Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born alive, and in their default of other persons (see BIRTHS), to give information to the registrar within forty two days; the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 2 and 3, provides for compulsory notification of births to the Medical Officer of Health (see BIRTHS), and the child must be vaccinat...
disparate treatment
disparate treatment : treatment of an individual (as an employee or prospective juror) that is less favorable than treatment of others for discriminatory reasons (as race, religion, national origin, sex, or disability) compare bona fide occupational qualification, disparate impact ...
Treatment
Treatment, is said to be also employed to indicate all the steps taken in order to effect a cure of an injury or disease, Himanshu Sekhar Nandy v. District Magistrate, Balasore, 1976 Cut LT 1262: 1976 Cut LR (Cr) 457.Treatment, would include such steps as would not only tend to effect cure of some disease but also as would prevent further deterioration of the disease. The expression connotes a remedial measure either to cure or to prevent deterioration. Hence, prescription of pair of spectacles by eye specialist would be treatment, Himanshu Sekhar Nandy v. D.M. Balasore, (1976) 42 Cut LT 1262....
Illness slip
Illness slip, is a facility which has been abused more often than not, so much so that interim orders once obtained have notoriously been found to have continued for a long time merely on the 'illness slip' and, therefore, the facility of adjournment on this basis should be abolished so that the litigant whose counsel has fallen ill may make alternative arrangement and the hearing of case may not be affected, Rais Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1999) 6 SCC 391....
Nauheim treatment
Orig a method of therapeutic treatment administered esp for chronic diseases of the curculatory system at Bad Nauheim Germany by G Schott consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place which are charged with carbonic acid and the use of a graduated course of rest physical exercises massage etc hence any similar treatment using waters artificially charged with the essential ingredients of the natural mineral waters of Bad Nauheim Hence Nauheim bath etc...
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