/library/oar/handle/123456789/124087 Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:43:37 GMT 2025-10-26T20:43:37Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/129696 Title: Foreword [ELSA Malta Law Review, 3, 2013] Abstract: Legal publishing in Malta owes so much to student initiatives which over the past sixty years have almost single-handedly kept it alive. The feat in no less incredible due to the inherent difficulties brought about by the very fact that the student body has done so by specialising in the publication of law journals which demands both continuity and consistency in standards to satisfy the periodic rhythms of journal publishing. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/129696 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/129661 Title: Foreword [ELSA Malta Law Review, 3, 2013] Abstract: It was indeed an honour and a privilege for me to be invited to write the foreword for this third edition of the ELSA Malta Law Review. I have eagerly accepted to do so to express my deep appreciation for this remarkable initiative taken way back in August 2010 and which has seen the launch of the first and second edition in regular succession in the years that followed. ELSA have, with prodigious regularity for the third year running, launched a formidable collection of original legal articles, case comments and updates from local and foreign law students, academics and legal practitioners alike. Furthermore, this collection of works is student-edited and subjected to a painstaking, two-phased editorial review process, namely, a student review and a peer review. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/129661 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/129660 Title: Editorial [ELSA Malta Law Review, 3, 2013] Abstract: When the ELSA Malta Law Review was launched in August 2010 and the first edition of the Law Review was published a year later, hopes and expectations of all involved were quietly optimistic that this young Maltese project would establish itself as a highly esteemed annual legal publication, synonymous with high quality and strictness. . As third Editor-in-Chief of the ELSA Malta Law Review, I proudly present to you the third edition of the ELSA Malta Law Review, a publication which has exceeded all initial expectations. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/129660 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/129659 Title: Shadow lines and scapegoats : medical criminal liability in Italy in the framework of national and international medical guidelines Authors: Funghi, Giulia; Rosanò, Alessandro Abstract: The following article attempts to investigate how medical guidelines originally developed by health professionals serve as a reference point in the practice of medicine and how they have been used by the Italian courts in an effort to blame doctors for a natural event such as a person's death, so as to turn the medical profession into a sort of scapegoat. Guidelines: the definition of guidelines which is often mentioned by international scholars is the one ratified in 1992 by the Institute of Medicine (hereinafter 'IOM') which defines them as 'systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and patients decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinic circumstances'. Sometimes guidelines have been recognised for having an incentivising and promotional effect, in cases when they are used to provide suggested behaviours in the approach to clinical issues, while in other cases, namely when they detail a list of discouraged behaviours, they tend to have a negative effect. More specifically, they are statements of suggested options available to treat a particular condition. [excerpt] Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/129659 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z