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Reversing the Principle of the Prohibition of Reformatio in Pejus:
The Case of Changing Students’ Possibility to Complain about their Marks in Denmark
Author:
Inger Marie Conradsen
Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University,, DK
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Abstract
Using the recent change in students’ possibility to complain about their marks in Denmark as a case the paper investigates the mechanisms of and the values underlying the principle of the prohibition of reformatio in pejus. The paper argues that the right to complain without fear that is the essence of the principle is seen as a fundamental legal value in Europe even if it is neither absolute nor invariable in time and space. Drawing on the Danish case the paper concludes that changes in principles that reflect fundamental values must to be publicly discussed and not kept clandestine.
How to Cite:
Conradsen, I.M., 2014. Reversing the Principle of the Prohibition of Reformatio in Pejus:
The Case of Changing Students’ Possibility to Complain about their Marks in Denmark. Utrecht Law Review, 10(1), pp.17–28. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/ulr.253
Published on
31 Jan 2014.
Peer Reviewed
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