Treaty, Grant, Usage or Sufferance? Some Legal Aspects of the Status of Hong Kong

1983 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 427-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Dicks
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
British Prime Minister ◽  
Current Controversy ◽  
The Status

The current controversy between Great Britain and China regarding the legal status of Hong Kong, having lain dormant for many years, was made explicit by a public exchange of statements between the governments of the two countries during and after the visit to Beijing of British Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher in September 1982.

scholarly journals Aperçu du statut des Territoires du Nord-Ouest et du Yukon en droit constitutionnel canadien

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-636
Author(s):  
Dominique Melançon
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
The North ◽  
The Status

The 1987 Constitutional Accord between the prime minister and the ten provincial premiers has caused discontent amongst the Northwest Territories and Yukon governments. They object to various elements in the Accord which do not confer on them rights identical to those of the provinces, to other elements which are likely to affect their future political evolution and to the fact that the Accord was concluded without their participation. By challenging the Accord before the courts, they have drawn national attention to their status within Confederation. Furthermore, some progress in the status of the Territories was made by the signing of a boundary and constitutional agreement by the Constitutional Assembly of the Western Region and that of Nunavut in Iqaluit on January 15, 1987 for purposes of dividing the Northwest territories. Although the agreement could not be ratified by referendum, it contains the basic principles for guiding the drafting of respective constitutions for the two new entities that will be created. Within the framework of recent events, the author first presents the main stages in the evolution of governmental organization in the Territories and then goes on to analyse their present legal status. This study makes it possible to see if recent evolution will cause the territorial governments increasingly to resemble provincial governments. Nonetheless, in many ways they still remain in a state of dependency vis-à-vis federal authorities. In conclusion, the author observes that the evolution of the Territories with regard to legislative and executive powers and bodies does not mean that they will necessarily obtain provincial status. Their accession to greater political autonomy could possibly become a reality by the implementation of original solutions, distinct from those of southern Canada and better adapted to the specific needs of the North and its important native population.

The Lady's Not for Returning: Memory, Mediation and Margaret Thatcher in Three Contemporary Biopics

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-178
Author(s):  
Caitlin Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
British Prime Minister ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Political Success

This article examines three recent biopics depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: the single dramas Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (BBC4, 2008) and Margaret (BBC2, 2009), and the UK/France co-production The Iron Lady (2011). Recognising their differences as indicative of divergent contexts of production, the article considers how each film similarly responds to industrial and social demands for 1980s-related British content but is forced to contend with the multitudinous incompatible readings inspired by Margaret Thatcher's heavily mediated iconography. The Long Walk to Finchley and Margaret, produced for domestic British television viewers, use strategies that encourage ambivalence, relying formally on ahistorical genres and narratively on self-conscious representation to distance themselves from docudrama and appease polarised viewers. However, The Iron Lady, a feature film destined for international theatrical release, broadens Thatcher's appeal by emphasising stylistic verisimilitude and structuring its narrative according to the subjective memories of a fictionalised Thatcher. This allows space for multiple interpretations: Thatcher's memories can be read as evidence of her political success, as the delusions of an ageing woman, or as indications of her struggle for power as a woman in a male-dominated sphere. The article suggests that all three productions foreground difficulties in recalling, in biopic form, a British politician whose motifs have been widely mediated and parodied and whose policies instil tremendously opposing sentiments and views.

The genius of Michael Faraday

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-323
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Self ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
Royal Institution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Electrical Engineers ◽  
Michael Faraday

Geoffrey Cantor, Michael Faraday. Sandeminian and scientist. A study o f science and religion in the nineteenth century . Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. xi + 359. ISBN 0-333-55077-3. John Meurig Thomas, Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution. The genius of man and place . Bristol, Philadelphia and London: Adam Hilger, 1991. Pp. xii + 234. ISBN 0-7503-0145-7. The correspondence of Michael Faraday. Volume 1 , 1811-1831, edited by Frank A.J.L. James. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1991. Pp. xlix + 673. ISBN 0-86341-248-3. ‘Very ordinary background, father ran a smithy, son had virtually no education ... didn’t go to university ... But extraordinary - brilliant. The Good Lord’s no respecter of backgrounds, never has been, He plants genius the world over and it’s up to us to find it’.1 Spoken neither by a scientist nor by a historian, these were the words by which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher elevated Faraday to the status of personal hero in 1987. Behind the rhetoric stood the conviction of 1980s Thatcherism, idealizing as it did the cult of the self-made, and challenging the very survival of those weighty institutions of education and science, most notably the universities, which had apparently played no part in the life and work of such great individuals as Michael Faraday and their entrepreneurial counterparts of the Thatcher years.

Margaret Thatcher's pronunciation: An exercise in ear-training

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Luke Van Buuren
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Training Method ◽  
Ear Training ◽  
Rule Of Thumb ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
British Prime Minister ◽  
Made In

Ear training is an essential element in any phonetics or pronunciation teaching. In recent years I have been developing an ear-training method based on repeater tapes (each line repeated nine or ten times) of ‘unusual’ personalities and accents. The recordings are first transcribed by rule of thumb according to our own norm (RP English, Standard Dutch, etc.) and the idea is that the major differences from this norm are then listened to and analysed. If the observations are summarized at the end, one has a fair idea of what is characteristic of that particular type of speech. By way of illustration I shall present such a summary of 85 seconds of speech by The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, taken from an interview on Dutch television made in 1982. It will appear that we do not only analyse phonetic phenomena, but cannot help noticing in this case their semantic impact as well. Perhaps our observations may be of some interest to semanticists and psychologists as well as phoneticians.

British Prime Minister visits ICRC

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (229) ◽  
pp. 219-219
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Vice President ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
British Prime Minister

On 12 August 1982, while on holiday in Switzerland, the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, paid a private visit to the International Committee of the Red Cross. She was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Denis Thatcher. In the absence of the President of the ICRC, she was welcomed by Mr. Richard Pestalozzi, its Vice-President.

scholarly journals Dutch, the Iron Lady and Latin America. The Anglo-American Special Relationship in Latin America under Reagan and Thatcher

2010 ◽  
pp. 159-163
Author(s):  
Sally-Ann Treharne
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
American Counterpart ◽  
British Prime Minister ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Relationship

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan made a formidable team in the international political environment of the 1980s. Their close working and indeed personal relationship shaped the future of Western European defence, facilitated the eventual fall of Communism, and brought international recognition to the Anglo-American Special Relationship. It was a testimony to a joint commitment to a renewal in transatlantic relations following a lull in the 1970s. Both leaders had vastly different personalities with Mrs. Thatcher often portrayed as Reagan’s proverbial ‘poodle’ in such satirical shows as the infamous Spitting Image. However, in reality the relationship was in many ways led by the British Prime Minister who was willing to assert her considerable influence over her American counterpart at any given opportunity. The relationship ore, was indeed ‘Special’. It went beyond the normal political protocol associated with bilateral cooperation and consultation. It was a relationship that endured many highs and lows ...

scholarly journals ECONOMIC END LEGAL ASPECTS OF ENSURING FOOD SECURITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2(14)) ◽  
pp. 93-97
Author(s):  
Olena Viktorivna Hafurova ◽  
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Yermolenko ◽  
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Stepasyuk
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Current State ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Status ◽  
Food Quality And Safety ◽  
Safe Food

Urgency of the research. Guaranteeing unhindered economic access to high-quality and safe food products is one of the main goals of the state agricultural policy of Ukraine. Therefore, it is particularly important to ascertain the status of social relations in this area. Target setting. Legal regulation is the most effective instrument of state influence on any type of social relations, including agrarian ones. Accordingly, it is necessary to pay attention to the issues of the legal mediation of relations that arise, change and cease in the food security field. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Such well-known domestic economists as O. G. Bilorus, V. I. Vlasov, O. I. Goychuk, B. Y. Paskhaver, P. T. Sabluk, O. M. Schpichak and others put sufficient attention to the various aspects of the formation of an economic mechanism for ensuring food security. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. At the same time, all legal scholarly works are devoted exclusively to the legal issues of food security, without taking into account the economic directions of its provision. The research objective. Clarification of the current state of the legal support of food security in Ukraine taking into account the economic indicators of its formation. The statement of basic materials. The article examines the legal status of food security in Ukraine. The relations in the sphere of ensuring food self-sufficiency, economic availability, food quality and safety have been analyzed. Conclusions. It is necessary: to completely prohibit any import and use of palm oil for the food; to specify the annual state support for the production and circulation of organic products. It is worth adopting the Law of Ukraine «On Food Security», the content of which should take into account as far as possible the achievements of the agrarian and law doctrine.

scholarly journals The development of state audit (control) based on the principles of the Moscow Declaration adopted at INTOSAI

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Marina Afanas'evna Lapina ◽  
Aleksandr Georgievich Gurinovich ◽  
Dmitrii Andreevich Kazantsev
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
State Audit ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

This article carries out the conceptual analysis of development trends in control and oversight activity of the supreme audit institutions (supreme financial control bodies), which contributes to achieving the goals of sustainable development until 2030. The research leans on fundamental analysis of the principles of the Moscow Declaration endorsed by INTOSAI. The subject of this research is the financial-legal aspects of transformation of the status of control and audit bodies that exercise external financial control aimed at maintaining sustainable economic development of the society through implementation of principles of audit of budget funds. The article employs the method of dialectical scientific knowledge, which is based on the set of private and general scientific method, including formal-logical that interprets the norms and principles contained in the international declarations of the supreme audit institutions. The authors offer the classification of principles depending on the key vectors in the development of state audit (control) and contained explicitly in the vectors of development. Conflicts of principles established in the Mexican and Moscow INTOSAI Declarations are determined. The scientific novelty lies in substantiation of formation of the new special legal status of the supreme financial control bodies that not only verify legitimacy, effectiveness, and feasibility of budget expenditures, but are an external and independent strategic assistant to the government and executive authorities as well.  The authors conclude on the institutional change in the status of supreme financial control bodies.

Constitutional-legal status of the special administrative region of Hong Kong as a territorial autonomy within the People's Republic of China: current trajectories of transformation

2021 ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Igor V. Irkhin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mass Protest

In this article examines the genesis of the formation and development of Hong Kong as part of the People's Republic of China, analyzes the current constitutional-legal status of the system of public authorities in this region and the problems of legal regulation of their relationship with the authorities of the central of the PRC. Author is concluding that the determining determinants of Hong Kong's qualifications as territorial autonomy are the authentic legal system, financial-economic and international-legal status. Also is emphasized that the model of the constitutional-legal regulation of the status of Hong Kong is characterized by a "creeping" bifurcation of formal and actual approaches to interpreting the area of competence of this region, which led to mass protest actions (2019 - 2020), partly inspired by the reactions of some foreign actors. In final of article author is formulated thesis on the convergence of the constitutional-legal regime of territorial autonomy with the principles of state unity and territorial integrity.

The Eucharistic Procession of 1908: The Dilemma of the Liberal Government

1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Devlin
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Dominant Focus ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
British Prime Minister ◽  
Liberal Government ◽  
Roman Catholics

In September 1908 the British Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, offended Roman Catholics by cancelling the procession of the Blessed Sacrament, which was to have been the climax of the 1908 international Eucharistic Congress. This incident illustrates the persistence of religious extremism as a disruptive force in British politics and the muddled manner in which Asquith's government dealt with crises. As early as 1900 social and economic issues had become the dominant focus of British politics, and Great Britain had established a reputation for religious toleration. In spite of the growing trend toward secularism, militant Protestants continued to agitate against Catholicism by resurrecting archaic laws restricting Catholic rituals.

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