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A Few Questions Concerning Photographs in Court Decisions

Dr Michał Dudek

Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Abstract: The aim of this article is to discuss the infrequent, but noticeable, practice of inserting photographs in court decisions. Against the background of the few existing studies on this practice, which seem to be overly case-specific, this article proposes a more general, even universal list of problems connected with it. It addresses a short list of questions about the inclusion of photographs in court decisions, such as, for instance: “Why do judges include in court decisions photographs concerning the case-relevant facts?”; “Who are the addressees of these photographs?”; “What is the source of the photographs used and are all sources allowable?”; and “How come that some segments of court decisions are accompanied by relevant photographs and others are not?”. A discussion of these and other questions enables the conceptualisation of many problems connected with inserting photographs in court decisions – most notably, that of the criteria of choice, which previously has not been explicitly addressed, but barely hinted at – and leads to the conclusion that the practice in question, surrounded by many controversies, should be discontinued.

Keywords: law, visuality, court decisions, photographs

Language: English

Received: 19.01.2017
Accepted: 29.09.2017

Published: Number 2(17)/2018, pp. 60-74.

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: court decisions, law, Michał Dudek, photographs, visuality

Does every culture deserves a defence? Few queries concerning cultural defence and criminal law in the age of multiculturalism

Mgr Michał Dudek

Jagiellonian University


English abstract:
The aim of the article is to indicate some of the axiological problems faced by the legislator in the law-making process. They are clearly visible in those legal regulations that are introduced in response to crisis situations. The presented example – terrorist attack by hijacking a plane – is not only used to demonstrate dilemmas which in this situation must be settled by the legislator preparing relevant legal provisions, but it is also a pretext for enriching the discussion on the axiological aspect of the law. The article focuses on the so-called natural helplessness of law in axiological matters, law inflation and the problem of responsibility. The author concludes that issues indicated in the article cannot be solved in the light of current Constitutional Court’s judgements, which are treated as a reference point of the discussed issues.

Keywords: cultural defence, multiculturalism, ethnocentrism, militant ethnocentrism, criminal law, minority rights

Language: Polish

Published: Number 2(3)/2011, pp. 47-60.

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