Showing papers in "Civilistica.com in 2013"

The Right to Privacy

Abstract: hat the individual shall have full protection in person and in property is a principle as old as the common law; but it has been found necessary from time to time to define anew the exact nature and extent of such protection. Political, social, and economic changes entail the recognition of new rights, and the common law, in its eternal youth, grows to meet the new demands of society. Thus, in very early times, the law gave a remedy only for physical interference with life and property, for trespasses vi et armis. Then the "right to life" served only to protect the subject from battery in its various forms; liberty meant freedom from actual restraint; and the right to property secured to the individual his lands and his cattle. Later, there came a recognition of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and his intellect. Gradually the scope of these legal rights broadened; and now the right to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life, -the right to be let alone; the right to liberty secures the exercise of extensive civil privileges; and the term "property" has grown to comprise every form of possession -intangible, as well as tangible.

Aspectos registrais das diretivas antecipadas de vontade

Abstract: This paper analyzes the aspects of Advance Directives registries. Therefore, an analysis of the species of DAV and how the countries that have legislated about the subject recording these documents. Thus, it becomes possible to punctuate the questions that need to be considered and discussed in order to standardize the registration form of the DAV in Brazil.

Do erro à culpa na responsabilidade civil do médico

Abstract: Once its subjective nature is affirmed, the analysis of medical civil liability demands caution. Contemporary private right doesn’t admit the traditional psychological concept of fault, demanding instead the attention to behavioral standards, procedures that, once observed, evidence the professional’s diligent conduct. Such procedures, hard do typify in abstract, must be extracted out of the professional practice of the medical community itself, thus conducting the judge towards a necessary dialog with medical specialists. It becomes, thus, possible to differentiate what is colloquially called “medical mistake” or malpractice from the hypothesis in which the physician has really acted with juridical fault and must be held responsible for the damages suffered by the patient, in the light of the general theory of civil liability. * Doutorando e mestre em Direito Civil pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. O autor agradece ao acadêmico Rodrigo da Guia Silva pela leitura crítica e zelosa revisão do presente artigo. civilistica.com || a. 2. n. 2. 2013 || 2

Honra, liberdade de expressão e ponderação

Abstract: O ex-jogador de futebol Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto ajuizou ação de indenização em face da Editora Abril S.A., visando o ressarcimento de danos à sua honra e à sua imagem decorrentes de reportagem publicada na Revista Veja, n. 1.619, de 13 de outubro de 1999, em cuja capa se fez estampar manchete com sua foto e o título “Animais no Volante − Casos como o do jogador Edmundo mostram o que a Justiça pode fazer contra a barbárie no trânsito”. No interior da edição, a longa matéria, intitulada “O Efeito Animal”, fora motivada pela condenação do autor a quatro anos e meio de prisão, em regime semi-aberto, por ter provocado, em 1995, acidente de trânsito no qual três pessoas morreram e quatro outras ficaram feridas. 2