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Public Inquiries and UK Press Regulation: A Case of ‘Fading into Forgetfulness’?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Why were the proposals for reform of UK press regulation made by Lord Leveson in 2012 not implemented in full, despite popular and parliamentary support for the report's recommendations, and despite the creation of the legal framework for the reformed system of regulation?
John Street   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England Du point de vue des managers : intensification du travail, ethnographie post‐humaine et soins de santé en Angleterre

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
Adam Brisley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

Hail to the thief: spectral egalitarianism in the Moroccan High Atlas Songez au voleur ! les spectres de l’égalitarisme dans le Haut‐Atlas marocain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
wiley   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Extending the Reach of the ‘Etridge Protocol’ to So‐called ‘Hybrid’ Scenarios: Waller‐Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In Waller‐Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc, the Supreme Court addressed, for the first time, the significant question of whether banks were put on constructive notice of potential undue influence in so‐called ‘hybrid’ scenarios. ‘Hybrid’ scenarios are those in which loan monies are advanced to a couple partly for their joint benefit and partly for one ...
Chris Bevan
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of a Pre‐Existing Defect on Liability for Property Damage: Taylor v Jones

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Taylor v Jones involved liability for causing damage to a building that had a pre‐existing defect. The defendant was in principle liable for the cost of repairing the damage. However, the Court of Appeal denied liability for the cost of repairing the pre‐existing defect even though such repair was necessary to restore the building to the state it would
Sirko Harder
wiley   +1 more source

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