The United Kingdom. The Development of its Laws and Constitutions. Part 1. England and Wales, Northern Ireland, The Isle of Man. Under the General Editorship of George W. Keeton, M.A., LL.D., and Dennis Lloyd, M.A., LL.B., with Specialist Contributors. Part 2. Scotland by T. D. Smith, M.A., Member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, Professor of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh; The Channel Islands by L. A. Sheridan, LL.B., PH.D., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Belfast. [London: Stevens & Sons, Ltd.1955. Part 1. xiv and 523 pp. (including Tables and Index); Part 2. xi and 614 pp. (including Appendices, Tables and Indices). £3 3s. net each Part]

1957 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-248
Author(s):  
T. C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Channel Islands ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
The University

The Population of Ireland

1960 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-68
Author(s):  
W. A. Honohan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Irish Population ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Striking Contrast

1. In the year 1800, when the Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland were fused by the Act of Union establishing the United Kingdom, the population of Ireland was of the order of 5 millions. By 1821 the figure had risen to 6·8 millions and in 1841 it was 8·2 millions. During the following decade the population fell by 1-6 millions to 6·6 millions. By the year 1861 it was only 5·8 millions and thereafter it continued to decline steadily, though not with such rapidity, until in 1911 a figure of 4·4 millions was reached. Owing to the disturbed state of the country in 1921, the next census was not taken until 1926, after the political change in 1922 when twenty-six of the thirty-two counties into which the country was divided were established as a separate political entity, the Irish Free State (later to become a Republic), while the remaining six were constituted as Northern Ireland and continued to form part of the United Kingdom. The population of the whole island in 1926 and again in 1951 was 4·3 millions, that is to say, it differed only slightly in 1951 from what it was forty years earlier in 1911—see Table 1. The population of Ireland has, therefore, remained virtually stationary at about 4¼ millions for almost half a century. The trend of Irish population since 1841 is in striking contrast with the trend in England and Wales for, whereas in 1841 the population of Ireland was more than one-half of that in England and Wales, today it is less than one-tenth; the Irish population has almost halved while that of England and Wales has almost trebled.

I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1890 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archibald Geikie
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Doctor Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at the Royal High School—the most famous of the many celebrated scholastic institutions of the “Modern Athens,” and at Edinburgh University. He became an Assistant on the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1855, and in 1867, when that branch of the Survey was made a separate establishment, he was appointed Director. A few years later—in 1871—he was elected to fill the Murchison Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh, when the chair for these subjects was founded by Sir Roderick Murchison and the Crown in that year. Subsequently he resigned these appointments, when at the beginning of 1881 he was appointed to succeed Sir Andrew C. Ramsay, as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and Director of the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street.

Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: an incoherent response

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Gary Craig
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Immigration Legislation ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

This chapter reviews developments leading to the enactment of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act in England and Wales and parallel legislation in Northern Ireland and Scotland. It analyses the response of the UK government to growing pressure for legislation, and the failings of the actual legislation put in place, including a comparison with some key elements in its Scottish and Northern Irish counterparts. Despite claims to be world-leading, the Modern Slavery Act has already been found to be deficient in many key areas such as continuing protection for victims and linking slavery and immigration legislation, and is considered to be in need of substantial reform.

Internal Cross-Border Policing within the United Kingdom: the High Road or the Low Road to Effective Co-operation

1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-146
Author(s):  
Clive Walker
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Border Enforcement ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Police Powers ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
High Road

ONE of the less vaunted aspects of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is Part X, entitled “Cross-Border Enforcement”. On closer scrutiny, one quickly discovers that the borders in question are those internal to the distinct legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom—in other words, the territories of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. As for “enforcement”, it is apparently the enforcement of the law via police powers and not the enforcement of court judgments which is the concern. As with other, more notorious parts of the Act, three main questions need to be answered in order to reach an understanding of these provisions: what prompted Part X to be passed; how does it seek to attain its objectives; and does it seek to attain its objectives in ways which are effective and appropriate?

Suicide in the United Kingdom and Ireland

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 300-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Lester ◽  
CH Cantor ◽  
AA Leenaars
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
The Other ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Young Males ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Male Suicide ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Epidemiological Trends

SummaryThe purpose of this study was to compare epidemiological trends in suicide for the three regions of the United Kingdom (England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland) and for Ireland from 1960 to 1990. The data on suicide rates were obtained from the World Health Organization statistical base, supplemented by data from the statistical offices of the four regions. While the suicide rates in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland increased during the period under study, English/Welsh suicide rates first declined and then held steady. In Ireland, both male and female suicide rates increased, whereas in the other regions only male suicide rates rose. According to age, in England and Wales, suicide rates rose for male teenagers and young males, while for the other regions male suicide rates increased in general for all age groups. Social indicators (unemployment, marriage and birth rates) were quite successful in predicting male suicide rates in all four regions and in predicting female suicide rates in England and Wales and in Ireland. The results emphasize the importance of studying several regions in epidemiological studies in order to identify which trends are general and which are unique to one nation. In the present study, the epidemiological trends for suicide in England and Wales were quite different from those in the other three regions. In particular, the steady overall suicide rate in England and Wales and the rising suicide rate for young males alone differ from the trends observed in the other regions and raise importante questions about the causes of the social suicide rate in these four regions.

scholarly journals WHAT FUNCTIONS DID EDINBURGH’S TOWN COLLEGE PERFORM IN THE PERIOD C. 1583-1760?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
YI-FEI LIU
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The University of Edinburgh is a renowned university in the world now. However, it was only a town college back in 1583, and the function of Edinburgh University varies from period to period. It was functioned as a religious, educational institutions in the first place and gradually involved in British politics as well. Moreover, the University of Edinburgh witnessed and promoted the Scottish Enlightenment. Eventually, Edinburgh University becomes an essential university for high-level education in the United Kingdom with advanced and diverse curriculums.

scholarly journals Do events since 23 June 2016 strengthen or weaken the case for the United Kingdom adopting a written, codified Constitution?

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Naseem Khan
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This article discusses the UK Government’s proposals to adopt a codified Constitution in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland after the Brexit Referendum of 2016. It discusses the reasons behind the lack of support for a codified Constitution, weighing up arguments for and against. The article concludes that although a codified Constitution may provide greater certainty, without recognition of the theoretical doctrines and concepts that form the current constitutional framework, a codified Constitution would be administratively unworkable.

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