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      <creatorName nameType="Organizational">Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania</creatorName>
      <affiliation>LT: Lithuania</affiliation>
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  <titles>
    <title>Court Advisory Institution, June 2004</title>
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  <publisher>Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2025</publicationYear>
  <subjects>
    <subject>Social Sciences</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">court cases</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://elsst.cessda.eu" subjectScheme="ELSST">courts</subject>
    <subject schemeURI="https://vocabularies.cessda.eu/vocabulary/TopicClassification?code=LawCrimeAndLegalSystemsLegislationAndLegalSystems" subjectScheme="CESSDA Controlled Vocabulary for TopicClassification">Legislation and legal systems</subject>
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      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities</contributorName>
      <affiliation>Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation>
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      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)</contributorName>
      <affiliation>Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</affiliation>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Gaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
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    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Baublytė, Marė (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Kublickienė, Lilija (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Sviklas, Eduardas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Štreimikis, Antanas (Centre for Information Technology Implementation, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5594-0580])</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Šarkutė, Ligita (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-1835-0186])</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName nameType="Organizational">Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])</contributorName>
    </contributor>
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  <dates>
    <date dateType="Issued">2008-04-28</date>
    <date dateType="Created">2004-06-06</date>
    <date dateType="Submitted">2008-04-17</date>
    <date dateType="Available">2025-12-23</date>
    <date dateType="Collected">2004-06-03/2004-06-06</date>
    <date dateType="Other" dateInformation="Time period covered by the data">2004-06-03/2004-06-06</date>
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  <resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Survey data</resourceType>
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  <rightsList>
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    <rights rightsURI="https://lida.dataverse.lt/api/datasets/:persistentId/versions/1.0/customlicense?persistentId=hdl:21.12137/GFXFLB">Custom terms specific to this dataset</rights>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;The purpose of the study&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;:  to identify Lithuania&amp;apos;s citizens opinion about the necessity of the advisory institution in the Lithuanian courts.
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Major investigated questions&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;: Respondents were asked about they participation in case investigation, opinion about the necessity of the advisory institution in the Lithuanian courts was investigated. 
Respondents were also asked to identify motives of the necessity and no need to establish the advisory institution:
- motives of the necessity to establish the advisory institution: there&amp;apos;ll be an opportunity for the society to participate in the justice enforcement; cases would be investigated more objectively, comprehensively, impartially, professionally; this would allow to decrease distrust in courts and protect human rights more efficiently;
- motives of no need to establish the advisory institution: too costly establishment; representatives of society - advisors wouldn&amp;apos;t have relevant legal background and would not be able to make professional decisions; Lithuania does not have the tradition of the advisory institution. 
Also probed were respondents&amp;apos; opinion about the social status of persons to be elected as advisors. 
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Socio-demographic characteristics&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;: gender, age, education, occupation, nationality, monthly income per family member, place of residence, region.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;The survey data were collected at the request of the Commission for the Implementation of the National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Lithuania under the Human Rights Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;</description>
    <description descriptionType="Other">&lt;p&gt;
The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Dataset (data and metadata) “Court Advisory Institution, June 2004” from 2008-04-28 to 2021-10-01 was available on the portal of Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences (LiDA) www.lidata.eu; object PID: www.lidata.eu/data/quant/LiDA_ZTLT_0015; produced by Gaidys, Vladas; Baublytė, Marė; Kublickienė, Lilija; Sviklas, Eduardas; Štreimikis, Antanas (2008-04-28); revised by Šarkutė, Ligita (2010-10-01).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    <description descriptionType="SeriesInformation">Survey Data &gt; Human Rights</description>
    <description descriptionType="TechnicalInfo">SPSS, 29</description>
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    <geoLocation>
      <geoLocationPlace>Lithuania</geoLocationPlace>
    </geoLocation>
    <geoLocation>
      <geoLocationPlace>Vilnius, Lithuania</geoLocationPlace>
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  <fundingReferences>
    <fundingReference>
      <funderName>United Nations Development Programme (Support to development of national action plan for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Republic of Lithuania)</funderName>
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