JORGE RODRIGUES SIMÃO

Legal Medicine and Medical Law - A conceptual interview

Clinical Ethics and Law

Children

Every jurisdiction has a formal definition of a ‘child’ for legal purposes. In the UK a ‘child’, for the purpose of medical decision-making, is anyone under the age of 18. The definitions sometimes create curious anomalies. A court might find a boy of 12 guilty of murder, but he’s not entitled to refuse treatment for his own acne.

One mistake and everyone judges you

A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge

Courts

Sentence

 If convicted, the defendant is sentenced. This normally occurs after the court is apprized of his previous criminal record, if he has one, as well as other information about his character.

Where he faces the prospect of a custodial sentence, reports may be submitted to the court concerning the defendant’s background: his education, family, employment history, and so on. Psychological or medical reports may also be presented, along with evidence, including witnesses to testify to his unimpeachable integrity. This may be followed by a moving plea in mitigation of sentence in which his lawyer attempts to convince the court that the accused is a victim of the cruel vicissitudes and privations of life: poverty, manipulation by others, poor parenting, and other equally powerful forces that were beyond his control and are where the true responsibility for his crime lies.

Climate Change -The Transport Challenge (Video)

Climate Change and Sustainable Transport - United Nations

HojeMacau - Perspectivas - Jorge Rodrigues Simão

“Innovation and investments in environmentally sound infrastructure and technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance resilience to climate change. Mitigation can be more cost-effective if using an integrated approach that combines measures to reduce energy use and the GHG intensity of end-use sectors, decarbonize energy supply, reduce net emissions and enhance carbon sinks in land-based sectors”.

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – Summary for Policymakers – Fifth Assessment Report of IPCC – Geneva, 01.11.2014

A Conferência das Partes (COP 20) ”, como órgão de cúpula da “Convenção Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudança do Clima (UNFCCC na sigla inglesa) ”, que decorre entre 1 e 12 de Dezembro de 2014, em Lima, tem a grande responsabilidade de obter o máximo de consensos e compromissos possíveis, relativamente aos volumosos e carregados temas de cada área, com vista a elaborar uma minuta de aceitável do futuro “Acordo Universal sobre o Clima” que deverá ser assinado, aquando da realização da COP 21, entre 1 e 15 de Dezembro de 2015, em Paris, e que substituirá o Protocolo de Quioto, após 2020.

L`Osservatore Romano

 O Nosso Pão Diário

Francisco: ser voluntário é lutar contra as causas da pobreza

11 Facts About Global Poverty