It is apparent from Hansard's report of the debates in both Houses of Parliament that the state of the criminal law was one of the main factors that led the Government to propose the creation of aRoger ToulsonSocial Science Electronic Publishing
This was done without the benefit of any legal sanction from a Haitian parliament. De facto Prime Minister Gérard Latortue, who was hand-picked by the U.S. to implement the ICF, promptly began the distribution of $29 million dollars to remobilized soldiers and paramilitaries whom the Central...
Having started out with a brief but fun stint at Amiga Action magazine and then another brief, rather less fun stint working for Hansard in the Houses Of Parliament, he finally got into writing about AV kit properly at What Video and Home Cinema Choice magazines, eventually becoming Deputy ...
This statistic is taken from the 2023 report ‘A lot of it is actually just abuse’: Young People and Pornography, published by the Children’s Commissioner as a spur to propelling what was then the Online Safety Bill through Parliament and supporting Ofcom in its preparatory work on the mea...
In Australia this began to change in 1958, when a woman was first appointed as a Hansard reporter in the Western Australian Parliament. However, presiding officers in the upper and lower houses controlled what women reporters could wear and they were not allowed to wear trousers until 'trouser-...
Rees-Mogg earned a place in parliamentary record books five years ago when he used what would become the longest word ever printed in Hansard, the official record of debates in the Houses of Parliament. Later, he said the 29-letter word, floccinaucinihilipilification meant the "act or habit...
In 1854, when Parliament refused to renew the Act beyond its initial term, The Times celebrated in an editorial which read ‘[w]e prefer to take our chance with cholera and the rest than be bullied into health’.6 Earlier, in 1847, when the House of Commons debated the Public Health ...
Although the quality of IA reports is improving and their use in Parliament is on the rise, these are still largely seen as perfunctory or as a standardised means of justifying decisions. One crucial but often ignored shortcoming is the poor distinction between regulatory costs and regulatory ...
Second, online petitions are widely used; Hansard reports that 28% of the public have created or signed an e-petition (The Hansard Society 2018), and Dutton and Blank report that over 1 in 3 people would consider doing so (Dutton and Blank 2013). Third, petition signing is connected to ...
This chapter presents a brief history of whisky, with a particular emphasis on the events that shaped its flavor and character. This includes technical innovations, but also regulatory policies and the occasional scandal. The historical perspective is re