The Development of Unfitness to Plead in English Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie Mackay
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Channel Island ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
English Law ◽  
Decisional Competence

This chapter contains an account of the law on unfitness to plead in England and Wales. As such it contains a discussion of problems that have arisen in the application of the fitness-to-plead rules through an analysis of recent case law. It also includes an analysis of the author’s empirical research on the doctrine, together with a discussion of how a new test for unfitness to plead was introduced as a result of litigation in the Channel Island of Jersey, the first and so far, only British jurisdiction to incorporate decisional competence into a test for unfitness to plead. (The island of Jersey is not part of the United Kingdom, but part of Great Britain, being a Crown dependency of the United Kingdom.)

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.

The recent trend of mortality in Great Britain

1985 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
C. D. Daykin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Resident Population ◽  
Annual Series ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Previous Note ◽  
Definition Of

This note continues an annual series on mortality rates in Great Britain; the previous note in the series appeared in J.I.A. 111, 181 and dealt with mortality in 1981.Following the 1981 Census, revised estimates of the ‘home’ population of England and Wales since 1961 have been published. These allow for revision of past estimates in the light of the Census and also for a new definition of ‘home’ population, which brings the concept closer to that of ‘resident’ population. The ‘home’ population is now defined as including residents temporarily outside the country but excluding foreign visitors. It includes members of both H.M. and foreign forces stationed in the United Kingdom but excludes members of H.M. forces who are stationed abroad.

England and Wales

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire van Overdijk
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
English Law

The territory of England and Wales forms a single jurisdiction covering two of the four countries of the United Kingdom (‘UK’). England and Wales together form the constitutional successor to the former Kingdom of England and follow a single legal system, known as English law.

The Ancestral Room of the State? Scotland and the United Kingdom on Jamie’s Great Britain

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-274
Author(s):  
Francesco Buscemi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
Hegemonic Construction

This article analyzes how Jamie Oliver’s show Jamie’s Great Britain represented Scotland in 2012, when the referendum on Scottish independence had already been announced. It follows Anderson, Bourdieu, Bhabha, cultural studies, and the idea that the nation is a hegemonic construction. Biosemiotics provides useful perspectives on the representations of Nature and Culture. Semiotic analysis interprets representations of the nation on the show. The results show that, while Oliver identifies English and Welsh food cultural origins with the Industrial Revolution and the Coal Boom, respectively, he finds Scotland’s food origins in the Vikings. Scotland is a land of ancestral habits and people, where Nature is inhospitable. Oliver represents England and Wales through the cultural categories of indices and symbols, while crude iconic representations of Nature are used to depict Scotland. Moreover, the Vikings also originated England and Wales (and Ireland), and in the end, the Vikings are constructed as the common roots of the nation that Oliver celebrates, the United Kingdom. Thus, Scotland is only represented as a part of the state-nation, a kind of ancestral room of the big house of the United Kingdom.

Religion and Belief in United Kingdom Employment Law: An Introduction to the Case-Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-98
Author(s):  
Frank Cranmer
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Religious Observance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Dress

AbstractThe interactions between religious belief and employment law touch on a wide variety of issues, ranging from basic questions about the definitions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’—and, indeed, of ‘employment’—to issues such as time off for religious observance, religious dress in the workplace and the extent to which an employer can impose its religious values on its workforce. This monograph looks at the major issues of religion in relation to employment law in the United Kingdom, primarily by reference to the recent case-law.

scholarly journals Judging constitutional conventions

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farrah Ahmed ◽  
Richard Albert ◽  
Adam Perry
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Constitutional Conventions

Abstract The study of constitutional conventions is anchored in three assumptions that have so far remained largely unchallenged: that there is a shared “Commonwealth approach” to constitutional conventions; that Commonwealth courts will recognize and employ conventions but never enforce them; and that conventions are always distinguishable from rules of law. After setting out a new taxonomy of modes of judicial engagement with constitutional conventions, we overturn each of these assumptions. We draw on recent case law from Canada, India, and the United Kingdom to show that there is no shared “Commonwealth approach” to the treatment of constitutional conventions. We show that some Commonwealth courts do, in fact, enforce conventions. Finally, we show that at least some constitutional conventions have crystallized into law. These insights disrupt much of what is foundational in the study of constitutional conventions.

TBE in United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Clinical Disease ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Probable Case ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South West ◽  
Louping Ill ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North And South ◽  
South West England

Until 2019, TBE was considered only to be an imported disease to the United Kingdom. In that year, evidence became available that the TBEV is likely circulating in the country1,2 and a first “probable case” of TBE originating in the UK was reported.3 In addition to TBEV, louping ill virus (LIV), a member of the TBEV-serocomplex, is also endemic in parts of the UK. Reports of clinical disease caused by LIV in livestock are mainly from Scotland, parts of North and South West England and Wales.4

HIV and other STIs in the United Kingdom: further increases

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (48) ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Health Protection Agency ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Living With Hiv

The Health Protection Agency Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre for England and Wales and others have reported that the number of people living with HIV in the UK has increased

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