Responding to Wrongful Convictions

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Carolyn Hoyle ◽  
Mai Sato
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Wrongful Convictions ◽  
Criminal Conviction ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

This chapter provides a background on the Criminal Cases Review Commission of England and Wales, first by tracing its origins and remit and then comparing its post-conviction review procedures with those of other jurisdictions. It was the Criminal Appeal Act 1907, which established the Court of Criminal Appeal, that introduced the first system of regular appeals against criminal conviction in England and Wales. The Court of Criminal Appeal was the forerunner of today's Court (Criminal Division), created in 1966. Since the Commission started work in 1997, it has received thousands of applications relating to wrongful convictions and/or sentences. After discussing the history of the Criminal Cases Review Commission in the UK, the chapter considers post-conviction review in other parts of the world, focusing on Scotland, Norway, North Carolina, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Unfinished Sexual Revolution

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
The World ◽  
Control Clinic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Editorial note. March 17th, 1971 was the fiftieth anniversary of the opening by Marie Stopes of her birth control clinic in Holloway, London, the first of its kind in the UK and possibly in the world. In recognition of this notable event, the Board of the Marie Stopes Memorial Foundation, in conjunction with the University of York, has established a Marie Stopes Memorial Lecture to be given annually for a term of years. The first of the series was delivered on 12th March in the Department of Sociology, University of York, by Mr Laurie Taylor of that department. In introducing the speaker, Dr G. C. L. Bertram, the Chairman, emphasized the great contribution made by Marie Stopes to human welfare and gave a brief history of the clinic, which was soon moved to Whitfield Street. On Marie Stopes' death in 1958 the Memorial Foundation was set up to manage the clinic, still in Whitfield Street, and as a working monument to a great women.Mr Taylor's script is printed below as delivered and it will be seen that the lecture was a notable one. Not only that, but it was delivered with the verve of a Shakespearean actor and the members of the large and appreciative audience will not readily forget the occasion.

Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bain-Selbo ◽  
D. Gregory Sapp
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
American South ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Classroom Use

Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics. [new paragraph] Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of religion and popular culture.

Barcode Applications for M-Business

2011 ◽  
pp. 66-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eusebio Scornavacca ◽  
Stuart J. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Platform ◽  
The Uk

One pertinent area of recent m-commerce development is in methods for personal transaction and information transfer. Several companies around the world have begun to use barcodes for the provision of m-commerce services. This chapter provides background on the enabling technological platform for providing such services. It then continues with three cases where mobile barcodes have been used—in Japan, New Zealand, and the UK. Subsequently, these are used as the basis for a discussion and analysis of the key business models, and strategic implications for particular markets. The chapter concludes with predictions for the market and directions for future research.

Advocacy, Ethics, and Values in Mental Health

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakki Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Information Support ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Professional Obligations ◽  
Mental Capacity Act 2005 ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mental Capacity Act ◽  
The Uk

This chapter discusses mental health advocacy in the UK and how the history of mental health care has influenced current practice, as well as how the advocacy sector in general has shaped government policy and legislation. The emphasis is on England and Wales, although advocacy delivery in Scotland and Northern Ireland is also considered. The chapter first defines advocacy and outlines its history in the UK before analyzing recent developments in the country. It then examines the principles of advocacy (independence; empowerment; representation, information, support; accountability; confidentiality), together with different forms of advocacy in the UK and key legislation, including the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983 in England and Wales. Finally, it looks at issues and challenges faced by mental health advocates with regard to ethics and values, such as conflicts of interest and duty, the nature of professional obligations and neutrality, and social justice.

scholarly journals John James Meikle and the Problem of the Wrongly Convicted: An Enquiry into the History of Criminal Appeals in New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Finn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Period 1880 ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

This article investigates the development of the law governing of appeals in criminal cases in New Zealand, and the substantial though neglected history of agitation for recourse for the wrongly convicted. It uses as a lens the story of John James Meikle, a farmer convicted of sheep stealing in 1887, who later successfully prosecuted the principal prosecution witness for perjury, successfully petitioned Parliament for compensation, was the subject of a Royal Commission into his conviction and, uniquely, was declared innocent by an Act of Parliament in 1908. Meikle's case was one of several highly publicised cases in the period 1880-1910 which demonstrated serious shortcomings in the law and led to parliamentary and public calls for reform. By 1910, calls for enactment of legislation on the lines of the Court of Criminal Appeal (established 1907) received wide supporting in parliament and from the judiciary. The article concludes by looking at the reasons why, despite this level of consensus, reform legislation was delayed until 1945. 

scholarly journals Research Subjects about the Comparison of British and Japanese Scholarship of Islam

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Alimu Tuoheti
Keyword(s):  
Practical Significance ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Current Standard ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

All around the world, how we interpret the Islamic world objectively and accurately is an important topic for concerned scholars all over the world. Britain has a history of Islamic Studies for more than 400 years, and the current standard and research paradigm of Islamic Studies in the UK deserves our attention. It is of great practical significance for us to thoroughly and systematically understand the contemporary Islamic world in this special historical stage of great turbulence, great differentiation, and great change, and then comprehensively grasp the regional issues of Islam and build a discourse system of Islamic research with modern characteristics. In the past 30 years, Japanese academic circles have not been able to keep abreast of the development of Islamic Studies in the UK, let alone go deep into the frontier field of cultural communication. Based on this, through literature analysis and field visits, this Project intends to overview of the current situation of Islamic Studies in Britain and Japan, focusing on the two main paradigms of its cultural studies, and then to explore the how these academic efforts can benefit and impact the discourse construction of Islamic Studies in Japan and UK.

scholarly journals History, Sovereignty, Capital: Company Colonization in South Australia and New Zealand

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Matthew Birchall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Arguments ◽  
Tribal Land ◽  
The One

Abstract This article takes a fresh look at the history of private colonial enterprise in order to show how companies influenced British settlement and emigration to South Australia and New Zealand in the 1830s, thus connecting the settler revolution to global capitalism. Bringing into a single analytical frame the history of company colonization in the antipodes and its Atlantic predecessor, it examines how and why the actors involved in the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand invoked North American precedent to justify their early nineteenth-century colonial ventures. The article shows how the legitimating narratives employed by the colonial reformers performed two key functions. On the one hand, they supplied a historical and discursive tradition that authorized chartered enterprise in the antipodes. On the other hand, they furnished legal arguments that purportedly justified the appropriation of Aboriginal Australian and Māori tribal land. In illuminating how language and time shaped the world-making prophesies of these colonial capitalists, the article aims to extend recent work on corporations in global context.

Book Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-112
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)Reviewed by Sheri BermanTerri Givens, Voting Radical Right in Western Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)Reviewed by David ArtSteinar Stjernø, Solidarity in Europe: The History of an Idea (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)Reviewed by Aaron P. BoeseneckerDavid Monod, Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005).Reviewed by Ivan RaykoffPatricia Mazón and Reinhild Steingröver, eds., Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005)Reviewed by Karen M. Eng

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