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With regard to the legal regulation of the shipowner’s civil liability for damage caused by the death and personal injury of a crew member in various national legislations, although they are based on different legal traditions, their common feature is that the status of seafarers in most of these countries is regulated separately from the status of transport workers and other professions on land. Croatian seafarers sail on Croatian ships registered in the national register of ships, as well as on ships under the flags of other countries, sharing thus the fate of more than two and a half million seafarers from more than eighty maritime countries in all seas and oceans of the world. It is necessary to emphasise that for all these seafarers, the important legal framework is provided not only by the regulations of the State of their citizenship or their residence, but also by the law of the flag State of the ship, the port State where the ship enters, and the State where the shipowner is based. Having in mind that these countries in many cases belong to the Anglo-American legal area, causing the application of their legal regulations in court proceedings for compensation of damage to seafarers of all nationalities, including Croatian nationality, the paper presents some of the most important legal solutions of common law systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fundamental legal conceptions according to Hohfeld (right, duty etc.), and/or the entities the conceptions refer to (again: rights, duties etc.), are theoretically relevant for two reasons. The first is Hohfeld's claim that the conceptions are the elementary building blocs of law. The second is inadequate knowledge of the alleged elementary nature of the conceptions due to a disproportion between two kinds of inquiries into law, namely, logical (undertaken chiefly by philosophers) and ontological (carried out mainly by lawyers). Hohfeld's conceptions, although derived from the Anglo-American Common law, make sense also to Croatian lawyers. For reasons of clarity and style, rather than linguistic purity, all of Hohfeld's terms can and should be translated into Croatian language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new model of examination of witnesses at hearings in criminal proceedings is reflected in its main, cross-examination and additional examination. The goal of this model is to strengthen the role and position of the parties, especially defendants, as opposed to the court, which now becomes a neutral and impartial trier of criminal dispute. Their role is reinforced by the original right to propose and present evidence in criminal proceedings. The authors particularly point out to the great importance of the cross-examination of witnesses in adversarial proceedings, as one of the main "weapon" by which parties exercise their procedural rights and interests. This contributes to the more efficient realization of the right to a fair trial, which is closely related to the defendant's right to an effective defense. After a detailed review of rules and ways of the main, cross-examination and additional examination of witnesses at the hearing, the paper gives a brief comparative law view of the system in the Anglo-American, Italian and Bosnian law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

English legal system is traditionally divided into three subsystems: the common law of England, statute law and equity law - originally created by The Lord Chancellor and his Court of Chancery. An important part of English equity law are equitable maxims, a set of legal principles or certain generalisations which are used as guidelines and rules to be respected in order to fulfil the spirit of equity. The paper gives an overview and analysis of most important equitable maxims, and indicates their significance for both legal history and English positive law. Even though their contemporary significance and applicability is sometimes disputed, their role in the creation and development of equity law remains undisputed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]