Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State of Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, and the existing Law in reference to Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in that part of the United Kingdom. 1857

1857 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
pp. 548-566
Author(s):  
J. C. B.
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The State ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lunatic Asylums

On few occasions has the great heart of the public been more deeply moved than by the recent revelations of the Scotch Lunacy Report. The report itself is a document remarkable not only for the information it contains, but for the soundness of opinions which it expresses, and for its general good sense, moderation, and justice. It is excellent, both in matter and manner, and is highly creditable not only to the whole of the Commissioners, whose industry in their vocation it illustrates, and whose opinions it enunciates, but it is so in the highest degree to the particular Commissioner to whom was entrusted the task of drawing it up, and whose enlightened views and wide knowledge on the subject of insanity, our associates will have no difficulty in recognising.

scholarly journals The Determinants of Charity Misconduct

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diarmuid McDonnell ◽  
Alasdair C. Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Regulatory Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Dataset ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Scrutiny

Charities in the United Kingdom have been the subject of intense media, political, and public scrutiny in recent times; however, our understanding of the nature, extent, and determinants of charity misconduct is weak. Drawing upon a novel administrative dataset of 25,611 charities for the period 2006-2014 in Scotland, we develop models to predict two dimensions of charity misconduct: regulatory investigation and subsequent action. There have been 2,109 regulatory investigations of 1,566 Scottish charities over the study period, of which 31% resulted in regulatory action being taken. Complaints from members of the public are most likely to trigger an investigation, whereas the most common concerns relate to general governance and misappropriation of assets. Our multivariate analysis reveals a disconnect between the types of charities that are suspected of misconduct and those that are subject to subsequent regulatory action.

Medical regulation for the public interest in the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
William Roche
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Regulation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject

Regulation of the medical profession has a long history in the United Kingdom but a number of high profile failures of National Health Service (NHS) organisations to deliver safe health care and the unlawful killing of more than 200 patients by one rogue doctor have led to a clamour for change. Many of these tragedies have been the subject of public inquiries and have created significant public disquiet about the role and effectiveness of the medical regulator. United Kingdom governments have responded to these inquiries by means of a combination of strengthening professional regulation and the introduction of new mechanisms of appeal against the sanctions imposed on doctors by tribunals. The historical development of medical regulation is reviewed and the more recent changes to address the public interest and crises in the confidence in the regulation of health care are described.

Corporate killing law reform: A spatio-temporal fix to a crisis of capitalism?

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Bittle ◽  
Lori Stinson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accountability Measures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The first decade of the new millennium saw the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom enact criminal legislation intended to hold corporations accountable for negligently killing workers and/or members of the public. Drawing empirically from document analyses and semistructured interviews, as well as theoretical insights concerning the crisis-prone tendencies of capital, this article demonstrates how both laws were conceived in ways that spatio-temporally delimited the ‘problem’ of corporate killing and re-secured the (neoliberal) capitalist status quo. In so doing, we argue that the inability of the state to hold powerful corporations and corporate actors to account for their serious offending presents strategic opportunities for demanding improved accountability measures and changes to a system responsible for so much bloodshed and killing.

444 pedras da réplica amazônica da “Saint Edward’s Crown” - Project 444 Stones: Arte - Ciência - História - Reflexão Política

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2020) (2) ◽  
pp. 1-56
Author(s):  
Wirley Barros ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
The State ◽  
Science History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Support ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The City

Project by authorship and idealization of the paraense doctor Wirley Otávio Oliveira de Barros, which involves art, science, history and political reflection, developed in the city of Belém, capital of the State of Pará, in the middle of the Amazon region, registered in a notary through a Notarial Act. This grandiose work was developed with scientific support Museum of Geosciences of the Amazon (MUGEO) of the Institute of Geosciences (IG) of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) through Prof. Dr. Marcondes Lima da Costa, with a PhD in Mineralogy and Geochemistry from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Friedrich-Alexander), in Germany (1982) and with a post-doctorate in mineralogy-geochemistry from IG-USP (2001); chemist Dr. Suyanne Flávia Rodrigues, with a doctorate in Mineralogy and Geochemistry from the Graduate Program in Geology and Geochemistry (PPGG) at IG / UFPA and MsC. geologist Gisele Tavares Marques, also from PPGG. This project, which will soon be presented to the public, was duly informed to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (Elizabeth II), of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in addition to Head of Commonwealth Realms and Defender of Faith, as it presents as a prominent item the replica work of “Saint Edward's Crown” or “St. Stephen’s Crown ”, as mentioned in the Royal letter received on February 3, 2016, signed by Miss Jennie Vine (Deputy to the Senior Correspondence Officer for Buckingham Palace), who on this occasion conveys the monarch's personal message. This is the official coronation crown of British monarchs, consisting of 444 stones of distinct mineral gems, which inspired the title attributed to the project. Therefore, it is a replica of a symbol of POWER, whose heraldic meaning of CRUZ DE MALTA and FLOR-DE-LIS guide the conduct and political profile of the ruler. In this regard, the author also addresses a message to the "men of power", made through a personal text of his own.

CAPITAL MAINTENANCE: A NEGLECTED NOTION

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar S. Gellein
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Capital Maintenance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject

This paper traces in descriptive fashion some of the developments of thought about capital maintenance during this century. The adverse consequences of neglecting the subject are mentioned after a basic review of the concepts. Contrasts among the theories from the United Kingdom and Ireland, Canada, Australia and other countries are also made.

The British Are Coming!

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Prime Mover ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom

Chapter 3 (‘The British Are Coming!’) explains the origins of the technology in the United Kingdom. It is widely assumed that the operation of a machine in the Enfield branch of Barclays was the ‘prime mover’ in this industry. However, the historical record fails to identify a hero inventor; rather multiple independent versions of the cash machine were launched at more or less the same time in different countries. Yet in spite of the great fanfare, there was no real race to market. There is no evidence the engineers responsible for them knew of each other’s existence before this launch (but many bankers did). Four years later, very few members of the public knew the cash machine existed, even less had used them and only a handful found them convenient.

VI.—British Geological Photographs

1897 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
W. W. Watts
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
British Association ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private Control ◽  
The Subject

A year ago, by the decision of the Council of the British Association, there was sent to the Museum of Practical Geology a large collection of photographs mainly taken with a view of illustrating, in the most permanent and unbiassed way at present possible, the features and phenomena of geological interest in the United Kingdom. The project of forming such a collectionoriginated with Mr. O. W. Jeffs in 1888, when he read a paperon the subject at the British Association at Bath, in which hepointed out the utility of such a collection and the necessity for forming it. When a committee was appointed in the followingyear he undertook the management of the work, and he has carriedit ou for seven years with indefatigable industry and scrupulou scare, only relinquishing it when the size of the collection beganto exceed the capabilities of private control, and when his own lackof leisure no longer permitted him to devote the requisite time andattention to its custody.

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