The Way to Establish a Public-interest Corporation

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. P-363-P-363
Author(s):  
MITSURU AKASHI
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
The Way

Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-332
Author(s):  
John Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Ronald Dworkin ◽  
The Way

This chapter first considers the thoughts of Ronald Dworkin, who sparked the contemporary fashion, among lawyers and legal theorists, for contrasting ‘arguments of principle’ with ‘arguments of policy’. Dworkin did not regard the two categories of argument as jointly exhaustive, even in the special setting of the courtroom. But he did regard them as mutually exclusive. The chapter also discusses the way in which the courts cannot responsibly avoid counting the consequences of their decisions, or at least some of the consequences of their decisions, for the decisions of future courts. This is followed by a discussion of legal instrumentalism.

22. Mergers (3): UK law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Whish ◽  
David Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Merger Control ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Water Industry ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides an overview of the UK system of merger control and explains the procedure of the Competition and Markets Authority (‘the CMA’) when determining whether a merger should be referred for an in-depth ‘Phase 2’ investigation and when deciding to accept ‘undertakings in lieu’ of a reference. It describes how Phase 2 investigations are conducted and discusses the way in which the CMA applies the ‘substantially lessening competition’ (‘SLC’) test in practice. It then explains the enforcement powers in the Enterprise Act 2002, including the remedies that the CMA can impose in merger cases, and discusses various supplementary matters, such as powers of investigation and enforcement. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how the merger control provisions work in practice and provides a brief account of the provisions on public interest cases, other special cases and mergers in the water industry.

scholarly journals Retrieving Landmark Salience Based on Wikipedia: An Integrated Ranking Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 529
Author(s):  
Noa Binski ◽  
Asya Natapov ◽  
Sagi Dalyot
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Numerical Attributes ◽  
Ranking Model ◽  
Geographic Sources ◽  
Landmark Salience ◽  
The Way

Landmarks are important for assisting in wayfinding and navigation and for enriching user experience. Although many user-generated geotagged sources exist, landmark entities are still mostly retrieved from authoritative geographic sources. Wikipedia, the world’s largest free encyclopedia, stores geotagged information on many geospatial entities, including a very large and well-founded volume of landmark information. However, not all Wikipedia geotagged landmark entities can be considered valuable and instructive. This research introduces an integrated ranking model for mining landmarks from Wikipedia predicated on estimating and weighting their salience. Other than location, the model is based on the entries’ category and attributed data. Preliminary ranking is formulated on the basis of three spatial descriptors associated with landmark salience, namely permanence, visibility, and uniqueness. This ranking is integrated with a score derived from a set of numerical attributes that are associated with public interest in the Wikipedia page―including the number of redirects and the date of the latest edit. The methodology is comparatively evaluated for various areas in different cities. Results show that the developed integrated ranking model is robust in identifying landmark salience, paving the way for incorporation of Wikipedia’s content into navigation systems.

scholarly journals Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-515
Author(s):  
Irina N. Ivanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Active Commitment ◽  
The Way

A number of approaches to media texts tend to apply an interactive model to communication, and the texts are seen are intrinsically dialogic, relying on the receivers’ subjective interpretation of meaning and activation of intertextual relations. In addition, media texts are increasingly used as material for linguistic analysis with the aim to reveal how their linguistic potential is utilized by journalists to convey messages and ideas, and influence the audience. The paper discusses the pragmatic functions of interrogatives and the way they are realized in media text, more specifically in newspaper articles’ headlines, leads and bodies excerpted from British and American online media over a period of two months. The analysis is mapped against previous research of interrogatives in the field of pragmatics and medialinguistics. The main findings show that interrogatives in headlines realize a range of pragmatic roles when used on their own or as part of paratactic or hypotactic complexes. These roles are closely dependent on their syntactic and semantic features and can range from attracting and focusing readers’ attention, to urging readers to think about issues, look for certain types of answers in the text, or think of their own answers or reactions. Headlines can be expanded or clarified in the sub-headings, lead and main body of the article. In the main body, interrogatives help to structure and authenticate writer’s dialogue with the audience, making the narrative or argumentation more emphatic, and soliciting active commitment to issues, feedback and empathy from the audience. Furthermore, some topics of high public interest and importance might lead to an increase in the number of questions in media texts. Further research of larger and more varied thematically material might throw light on the way different topics affect the frequency and distribution of pragmatic roles of interrogatives in media texts.

scholarly journals The response to whistleblowing by regulators: a practical perspective

Legal Studies ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Savage ◽  
Richard Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Regulatory Functions ◽  
Information Requests ◽  
The Way

The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 provides protection for whistleblowers; it does not place statutory obligations on regulators to act in response to whistleblowing concerns. Using Freedom of Information requests as a research methodology, this paper seeks to examine how whistleblowing is approached by regulators and what happens when a whistleblowing disclosure is made. Forty-eight national regulators in a variety of fields and 408 county, district and unitary local authorities with responsibility for the regulation of food were contacted. The paper begins by considering the importance of whistleblowing disclosures and how they are protected in PIDA. The examination of the law reveals that several organisations with important regulatory functions are not prescribed, and this has the potential to create inconsistencies in the protection of whistleblowers. The bulk of the paper examines the results of the Freedom of Information requests. By examining the results of these requests, it was possible to show that there are a number of inconsistencies in the way in which regulatory agencies handle concerns. Several changes to practice are suggested in order to ensure that the whistleblowers receive appropriate treatment and that the concerns that they express can be properly addressed.

The Trouble is Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Duncan McCargo
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Rigid Attachment ◽  
Very High ◽  
The Way

This concluding chapter argues that Thailand is suffering from a surfeit of legalism: revolving-door constitutions, politicized independent agencies—including a problematic Constitutional Court—and a judiciary that works on behalf of an imagined monarchy, rather than in the public interest. The results are plain to see: a profound degree of political instability, high levels of social polarization, very high conviction rates, the abuse of punitive treason spectrum laws, and a prison population that is rising uncontrollably. Far from easing tensions through reflexive and moderating decisions, the courts have aggravated matters and fueled growing levels of crisis. Courts should strive for “tribunality”: the pragmatic and judicious resolution of complex political problems. Trials should also provide for moments of “liminality,” when the use of legal ritual and formality creates episodes of catharsis. A judiciously conducted trial can move conflict into the realm of ritual, moderating disagreements and producing a solution that captures nuance and maintains ambiguity. Such liminality prepares the way for tribunality: practical judicial solutions that are grounded in political and social realities rather than in rigid attachment to the letter of very imperfect laws. However, the more Thai judges see themselves as enforcing loyalty to the crown, the more unattainable even brief glimpses of tribunality and liminality become.

The Danaid Tetralogy of Aeschylus

1957 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Diamantopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Way

The humour of the passage in the Frogs (1419 ff.), in which the tragic poets reply with riddles on burning political issues, is explicable: research on the Eumenides shows that in this play Aeschylus projected political notions in much the way that he is presented by Aristophanes speaking in the Frogs: concentrating the attention of the spectator on the past of the Areopagus and on the circumstance of its foundation, he touches directly on the question which arose in 462–1 through the abolition of the political competence of this body, but he replies to it through a parable which is enigmatic for us. It is obviously such an expression as this that Aristophanes had in mind. It rests with philological and historical criticism to show whether in surviving tragedies other than Eumenides themes of an immediate public interest are put forward under the cover of myth, themes which, through ignorance of the date or of the exact conditions of the composition of the plays, have so far not been revealed. This essay examines from this point of view the Danaid tetralogy of Aeschylus.The subject of the Danaid tetralogy is taken from the story of Danaos and his daughters. For this, Aeschylus could draw on both a literary source, the Danais, and probably also on Argive traditions.Very little is known about the Danais. It did, however, include an account of the events which took place in Egypt between the houses of Danaos and Aigyptos, and it is likely, therefore, that it traced the course of this quarrel from the beginning.

scholarly journals An advertiser's dream

2013 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Ciara Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
World Records ◽  
The Way

Mercedes Gleitze was a British endurance swimmer who garnered huge public interest in the 1920s and 1930s. Celebrated for her athletic endeavours and philanthropic work, she was one of the first sportswomen to endorse a range of products, and most famously became a “poster girl” for Rolex. At a time when Edward Bernays was developing the psychoanalytic theories of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, to expand the fields of advertising and public relations, the media became increasingly interested in celebrities and the products they promoted. This article will examine the way the media covered Gleitze’s attempts to break world records and how coverage of her in the press and newsreels expanded beyond her athletic prowess to delve into her personal life and financial affairs. It will also consider how Gleitze became a symbol of expanding consumerism and explore how the tensions between her “new woman” status and her commodified persona were framed in the cinema. The article will also offer a consideration of how newsreels, a resource that has been underutilised by film scholars and historians, can help to inflect debates about contemporary popular culture, shifting female identities and burgeoning consumerism.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 345-348
Author(s):  
Joseph Heath
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Administrative State ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Power ◽  
The Way

The growth of the administrative state creates a dilemma for the civil service. In order to guide the exercise of administrative power, it is compelled to develop its own conception of the public interest. And yet it appears to be prohibited from doing so both by democratic theory and constitutional convention. The solution to the dilemma lies in an understanding of the way that liberal principles inform the practice of public administration, in particular, the principles of efficiency, equality and liberty. This brief concluding chapter offers a summary of the argument, offered over the course of the book, in defense of this position.

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