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\"Accountant Bilal Hasham and his journalist wife Mariam plod along contentedly in the sleepy, chocolate box Dorset village they've lived in for ten years. Then Bilal is summoned to his mother's bedside in Birmingham. Mrs Sakheena Hasham knows she is not long for this world. She has a final request. Instead of whispering her prayers in her dying moments, she instructs her son: You must go home to your village, Babbel's End, and you must build a mosque. Mariam is horrified. The villagers are outraged. How can a grieving Bilal choose between honouring his beloved mum's last wish and preserving everything held dear in the village he calls home? But it turns out home means different things to different people. Battle lines are drawn and this traditional little community becomes the colourful canvas on which the most current and fundamental questions of identity, friendship, family and togetherness are played out. What makes us who we are, who do we want to be, and how far would we go to fight for it?\"-- Provided by publisher.

There are an estimated 7 million burn injuries in India annually, of which 700,000 require hospital admission and 140,000 are fatal. According to the National Burns Programme, 91,000 of these deaths are women; a figure higher than that for maternal mortality. Women of child bearing age are on average three times more likely than men to die of burn injuries. This paper reviews the existing literature on burn injuries in India and raises pertinent issues about prevalence, causes and gaps in recognising the gendered factors leading to a high number of women dying due to burns. The work of various women’s groups and health researchers with burns victims raises several questions about the categorisation of burn deaths as accident, suicide and homicide and the failure of the health system to recognise underlying violence. Despite compelling evidence, the health system has not recognised this as a priority. Considering the substantial cost of burns care, prevention is the key which requires health systems to recognise the linkages between burn injuries and domestic violence. Health systems need to integrate awareness programmes about domestic violence and train health professionals to identify signs and symptoms of violence. This would contribute to early identification of abuse so that survivors are able to access support services at an early stage. En Inde, on estime à 7 millions le nombre de blessures par brûlure chaque année, dont 700 000 exigent une hospitalisation et 140 000 sont mortelles. Selon le programme national sur les brûlures, les femmes représentent 91 000 de ces décès, un chiffre plus élevé que celui de la mortalité maternelle. Les femmes en âge de procréer courent en moyenne trois fois plus de risques de mourir de brûlures que les hommes. Cet article examine les publications sur les brûlures en Inde et pose des questions pertinentes sur la prévalence, les causes et les lacunes dans la reconnaissance des facteurs sexués qui aboutissent à un nombre plus élevé de décès de femmes. Le travail de groupes de femmes et de chercheurs en santé avec les victimes soulève plusieurs questions relatives à la catégorisation des décès par brûlure comme accident, suicide et homicide, et à l’incapacité du système de santé d’identifier la violence sous-jacente. En dépit de preuves convaincantes, le système de santé n’a pas considéré ce phénomène comme une priorité. Compte tenu du coût substantiel des soins aux brûlés, la prévention est la clé qui exige que les systèmes de santé reconnaissent les liens entre les brûlures et la violence familiale. Les systèmes de santé doivent intégrer des programmes de sensibilisation à la violence familiale et apprendre aux professionnels de santé à identifier les signes et les symptômes de la violence. Cela permettrait une identification précoce de la maltraitance afin que les survivantes aient rapidement accès à des services d’appui. En India, cada año ocurren aproximadamente 7 millones de lesiones por quemadura, de las cuales 700,000 requieren ingreso hospitalario y 140,000 son mortales; de acuerdo al programa nacional de quemaduras, 91,000 de estas muertes son mujeres, una cifra más alta que la de mortalidad materna. Las mujeres en edad fértil son, en promedio, tres veces más propensas que los hombres a morir por lesiones por quemadura. Este artículo revisa la literatura sobre las lesiones por quemadura en India y plantea puntos pertinentes sobre la prevalencia, causas y brechas en reconocer los factores de género que ocasionan que un alto número de mujeres mueran por quemaduras. El trabajo de diversos grupos de mujeres e investigadores en salud con víctimas de quemaduras plantea varias interrogantes sobre la categorización de muertes por quemadura como accidente, suicidio y homicidio, así como el hecho de que el sistema de salud no reconoce la violencia subyacente. Pese a la evidencia convincente, el sistema de salud no ha reconocido esto como una prioridad. Considerando el costo significativo de brindar atención a víctimas de quemaduras, la prevención es la clave que requiere que los sistemas de salud reconozcan los vínculos entre lesiones por quemadura y violencia doméstica. Los sistemas de salud deben integrar programas de sensibilización sobre la violencia doméstica y capacitar a profesionales de la salud para que identifiquen los signos y síntomas de violencia. Esto contribuiría a la identificación temprana de maltrato, de manera que las sobrevivientes puedan acceder a servicios de apoyo en la etapa inicial.

Technique of corroboration plays a vital role in appreciation and evaluation of evidence in judicial proceedings. Its purpose is to ensure conviction of real culprits and to prevent wrongful punishment of innocent persons. This paper analyzes the relevance and significance of technique of corroboration in criminal justice system of Pakistan. It discusses circumstances that necessitate corroboration and how that necessity is met in the judicial proceedings. In Pakistan, some witnesses and pieces of evidence are corroborated to usher them reliability when they are found to be lacking credibility or of suspicious nature. The requirement of corroboration is not necessarily dictated by law: it is mandated by prudence, caution and practice for satisfying the judicial conscience as to credibility of a witness and reliability of original evidence. When a witness or original evidence does not meet the requisite standard of credibility and reliability, that particular situation generates a 'reliability void'. This reliability void necessitates resorting to technique of corroboration to ascertain veracity of such witness or for bestowing trustworthiness to such evidence. However, corroboratory evidence does not convert an absolutely unreliable witness or piece of evidence into a reliable one.

Background Fire is a well-known double edged sword for human beings as it served as well as destroyed mankind. Death due to thermal burns is a burning topic all over the globe. Material and method A total of 109 cases of death due to fatal burns were brought for autopsy at a tertiary care centre in Mumbai, India during the period January 2014 to July 2015, were studied. A specially prepared proforma containing medico-legal aspects of death due to burns was filled. It was analysed by using Microsoft excel and tabulated for better understanding. Cases were studied with respect to marital status, alleged history of dowry death, manner of death, recording of dying declaration, history of psychiatric illness, chronic diseases, previous suicidal attempts etc., method of infliction of burn injury, inflammable substance, cause of death and survival period after burn injury infliction. Results Females were 92 in number (84.4%) out of the 109 cases. Accidental deaths were 71 in number (65.14%). In 12 cases (11.01%), dying declaration was recorded by the police. Seven (6.42%) suffered from psychitric illness while 6 (5.5%) suffered from chronic systemic diseases. Sixty seven cases (61.47%) died of septicemia while 42 (38.53%) died as a result of shock.

On 5 August 1968, publication of the Harvard Committee’s report on the subject of “irreversible coma” established a standard for diagnosing death on neurological grounds. On the same day, the 22nd World Medical Assembly met in Sydney, Australia, and announced the Declaration of Sydney, a pronouncement on death, which is less often quoted because it was overshadowed by the impact of the Harvard Report. To put those events into present-day perspective, the authors reviewed all papers published on this subject and the World Medical Association web page and documents, and corresponded with Dr A G Romualdez, the son of Dr A Z Romualdez. There was vast neurological expertise among some of the Harvard Committee members, leading to a comprehensible and practical clinical description of the brain death syndrome and the way to diagnose it. This landmark account had a global medical and social impact on the issue of human death, which simultaneously lessened reception of the Declaration of Sydney. Nonetheless, the Declaration of Sydney faced the main conceptual and philosophical issues on human death in a bold and forthright manner. This statement differentiated the meaning of death at the cellular and tissue levels from the death of the person. This was a pioneering view on the discussion of human death, published as early as in 1968, that should be recognised by current and future generations.

This essay discusses the right of confrontation generally by contrasting its fundamental import to Anglo-American legal systems with its more recent rise in significance in Continental European ones, before focusing narrowly upon a particular exception to the right of confrontation called the dying declaration. This essay analyzes a highly unusual intersection of literature and law in which a renowned legal scholar errs in relying upon a passage in imaginative literature as the primary support for his argument for how the dying declaration exception to the hearsay rule should be interpreted and applied.

In the children’s game of “telephone,” one child thinks up something to say, maybe something true about herself, for example, “I like to sing and dance.” She whispers it to the next child, who whispers it to the next child, and so on down the line. Finally, the last child announces the sentence: “I hike and bike in France.” The results of the game can be funny and surprising. But they belong at a party, not in the courtroom.¹ The problem of hearsay evidence is the problem illustrated in the telephone example. The first child, who is the analog of