new law regarding medical responsibility in the United Arab Emirates

In the United Arab Emirates, medical responsibility was formerly defined and governed by the provisions of Law 7 of 1975 for the practice of medical professions; this had been a part of civil law. The passing of Law 10 of 2008, namely the Law on Medical Responsibility in the UAE ", which was enacted on the 16th of December 2008, created a new framework to deal with this issue. The old master-servant relationship for compensations is replaced by insurance companies, which will pay damages to the plaintiff [patient] injured as a result of a physicians' negligence. This paper provides the first translation of the Arabic text of the new law into English. This is particularly important for expatriate doctors working in UAE; many of whom do not speak Arabic. Where appropriate, a comparison is made between provisions of the old law and new law dealing with similar points. Moreover this paper provides an overview of some contemporary legal and ethical issues in medical practice, i.e. confidentiality, consent, euthanasia, abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction technology and cloning of humans. Legal and ethical restrictions have been presented and discussed for the benefit of physicians in order to increase their awareness of these matters

Asegurabilidad de las indemnizaciones previstas en la ley organica de prevención: condiciones y medio ambiente de trabajo / Guarantee of the compensations provided by prevention of organic law: condition and workplace

Ante la alternativa presentada por algunas empresas respecto a la contratación de pólizas de seguro que asuman el riesgo pecuniario que les representan las indemnizaciones previstas en la Ley Orgánica del Prevención Condiciones y Medio Ambiente de Trabajo, existen elementos importantes que nos permiten explorar la posibilidad jurídica de realizar o no estos contratos, partiendo de la naturaleza de la norma legal y de sus repercusiones en la salud de los trabajadores. El presente trabajo es una respuesta social a esta encrucijada jurídica, ésto es, a través de los criterios jurídicos manejados por las ciencias sociales y la particular visión del Derecho Social, percibimos un espectro especial surgico hibridamente entre las indemnizaciones y las sanciones, que nos han dado pie para la construcción de esta teoría