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A Database for european lawyers
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The database of website
www.familylawineurope.eu is the only one in Europe to
include the legislation and jurisprudence of
the European Union and of the Member States of the EU on
family law and human rights. |
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CONTENT OF THE DATABASE
Three research engines allow access
to:
1. FAMILY LAW LEGISLATION
which includes:
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European Union law: it contains the full texts of the documents
(agreements, decisions, directives, opinions, proposals, protocols,
recommendations, regulations, resolutions and treaties) issued by
the European Parliament, by the Council of the European Union and by
the European Commission.
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International agreements: it contains the complete texts of the
documents (agreements, communications, conventions, opinions,
protocols, recommendations, resolutions and treaties) issued by the
European Community, the Council of Europe, the Hague Conference and
by the United Nations.
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Family law and human rights legislation issued by the Member States
of the European Union: it contains, for example and in general
lines, according to the legislation of the single Country and its
availability, the laws relative to citizenship, asylum, adults with
incapacity, bio-ethics, euthanasia, motherhood, surrogate
motherhood, paternity, adoption, children's lawyer, parental
responsibility, guardianship, separation, divorce, matrimonial
property regimes and nuptial agreements, civil partnerships, trust,
succession, domestic violence and sexual exploitation, child
abduction, and also international private law and the Codes (Civil
Code, Criminal Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure Act
and Code of professional ethics for european lawyers).
2. FAMILY CASE-LAW issued by:
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the Court of Justice of the European Union (the complete text
of judgments, orders, opinions of the Court and Advocates General's
opinions)
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the European Court of Human Rights (the complete text of judgments
and admissibility decisions)
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the Supreme Judicial Courts of the Member States of the European
Union (the complete text of judgments of the Constitutional Court
and/or Court of Cassation)
3. PROCEDURE AND APPLICATION FORM
concerning:
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the judicial cooperation in civil matters between the Member States
of the EU (mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments)
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the rules of procedure of the Court of Justice of the European Union
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the rules of procedure of the European Court of Human Rights
RESEARCH METHODS
The research takes place through three different search engines
(legislation, case-law, procedure and form) and with the following
criteria:
for the Legislation:
Author
Type of document
Document number
Document date
Key words in the title and/or text
for the Case-law:
Author
Type of document
Case number
Names of parties
Date
Key words in the text
for the Procedure/Form:
Type of procedure/form
Key words in the text
LANGUAGES AND TRANSLATIONS
The European Union legislation and
jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union
included in the database is in Italian, English and French.
The case-law of the European Court of
Human Rights is in English and French.
The majority of the European Union
law included in the database were recovered already translated from the
original language into English or French, published by the Office des
publications officielles des Communautés européennes on EUR-Lex website:
© Communautés européennes,
http://eur-lex.europa.eu.
The family law and human rights
legislation issued by the Member States of the European Union is in the
original language and/or English and/or French and/or Italian.
The website's operator declines any
liability for possible inaccuracies in translating the texts.
WARNING. LEGAL INFORMATION.
COPYRIGHT.
It is specified that the legislative
and jurisprudential texts of the European institutions included in the
database are mainly taken from «© Communautés européennes,
http://www.eur-lex.europa.eu»,
and from the website of the Council of Europe,
http://www.echr.coe.int
It is specified that it is not
possible to guarantee that a document available online, reproduces
exactly an officially adopted text, and therefore only the texts of the
legislation of the European Union published in the paper editions of the
“Official journal of the European Union” and of the Journals or official
Collections of each single Country, with regards to the legislation of
the Member States of the EU, are valid.
The texts of the legal measures
adopted by European Courts linked to and/or published on the website are
not official. The final version is published in the “Reports of Cases
before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance” or in the
“Official Journal of the European Union", and in “The Reports of
Judgments and Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights”, which is
the only one authentic, that prevails on the electronic version in case
of discordance.
Pursuant to art. 5 of the Italian law of 22 April 1941 no. 633 on the
protection of copyright, the texts of the official acts of the State and
Italian and foreign public administrations, are not covered by
copyright.
The copyright refers therefore,
according to the same law, to the organization and filing in the
database, and to the elaboration and presentation form of the texts.
The reproduction of the elaborated
material published on the website, carried out with any paper, analogue
or digital mean, is prohibited without the written consent of the
website’s owner and it will be prosecuted according to law.
The copy of the single documents is allowed exclusively for personal
use.
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