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LEGAL QUALIFICATION [2 records]

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Record 1 2012-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
  • Legal Profession: Organization
CONT

The term "lay member" has been in use for a long time to describe tribunal members without a legal qualification, or sometimes those without a medical or other easily definable professional qualification. Even if the term is now normally absent from the legislation governing tribunal systems; it is still in common use colloquially among tribunal members, and often forms part of the language of recruitment procedure.

CONT

Non-legal members are not on tribunals just to make up the members, or to provide some balance or untutored "common sense;" nor should they feel they are representing the "person in the street" (which is the role suggested by the term lay-member).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Status of Persons (Private Law)
  • Legal System
DEF

Aptitude to be vested with and to exercise rights.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statut des personnes (Droit privé)
  • Théorie du droit
DEF

Aptitude d'une personne à être titulaire d'un droit et à l'exercer.

OBS

capacité juridique : recommandation du Comité d'uniformisation des règles de procédure civile dans le cadre du PAJLO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estado de las personas (Derecho privado)
  • Régimen jurídico
DEF

Aptitud que tiene una persona para ser sujeto o parte, por sí o por representante legal, en las relaciones jurídicas, ya sea como titular de derechos o facultades, ya como obligado a una prestación o al cumplimiento de un deber.

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