Case Judgment: England & Wales

Job v Halifax PLC (not reported) Case number 7BQ00307, commentary by Alistair Kelman

Case Judgment: England & Wales

R v LR (not reported) Indictment number T20090048 (this is a transcript of the Ruling that was subsequently appealed by the Crown to the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: CPS v LR [2010] EWCA Crim 924 (Abusive images of children; judicial order to provide copies of images to defence; refusal by prosecution; reasonableness of judicial order and practical arrangements)

Case Judgment: England & Wales

Case citation: Shojibur Rahman v Barclays Bank PLC, Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court. Case number: 1YE00364. Date of judgment: 24 October 2012. Commentary by Stephen Mason and Nicholas Bohm. (Bank card; PIN; electronic signature; verification of customer; negligence of the bank; negligence of the customer; fraud; burden of proof; events taking place before the Payment Services Regulations 2009 in force)

The UK, interrogation and Iraq, 2003-8

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003-8) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. The article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness, for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable

外国語教育における「思考・判断・表現」の 評価の在り方

Problema ¿Qué relación existe entre los niveles de habilidades cognitivos evaluados y qué habilidades cognitivas alcanzan los docentes de la Escuela profesional de Obstetricia de la USMP. Objetivo: identificar la relación entre las habilidades cognitivas evaluadas y habilidades cognitivas logradas en los estudiantes de la Escuela Profesional de Obstetricia de la USMP. Hipótesis: Los niveles de habilidades cognitivos evaluados por los docentes se relaciona significativamente con la adquisición de habilidades cognitivas expresadas por los estudiantes en la Escuela Profesional de Obstetricia de la USMP. Población y muestra: la población lo constituyeron las 58 asignaturas que constituyen las asignaturas de plan de estudios vigente de la Escuela de Obstetricia. La muestra está constituida por 30 asignaturas tomadas no probabilísticamente y 10 exámenes desarrollados y calificados por los docentes de cada asignatura tomadas probabilísticamente para el estudio. El método de estudio: análisis documentario, el estudio fue descriptivo, transversal, no experimental y correlacional. Resultados: los niveles cognitivos evaluados por los docentes se relacionan significativamente con la adquisición de capacidades cognitivas expresadas por los estudiantes en la Escuela Profesional de Obstetricia de la USMP, con un coeficiente de correlación de r=0.746 correlación positiva alta, en la Escuela de Obstetricia los niveles cognitivos obtenidos son mayormente comprender y aplicar y muy escasamente los niveles de análisis, síntesis y evaluación

Work Hours and Self rated Health of Hospital Doctors in Norway and Germany. A comparative study on national samples

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The relationship between extended work hours and health is well documented among hospital doctors, but the effect of national differences in work hours on health is unexplored. The study examines the relationship between work hours and self rated health in two national samples of hospital doctors.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>The study population consisted of representative samples of 1,260 German and 562 Norwegian hospital doctors aged 25-65 years (N = 1,822) who received postal questionnaires in 2006 (Germany) and 2008 (Norway). The questionnaires contained items on demography, work hours (number of hours per workday and on-call per month) and self rated subjective health on a five point scale - dichotomized into "good" (above average) and "average or below".</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Compared to Norway, a significantly higher proportion of German doctors exceeded a 9 hour work day (58.8% vs. 26.7%) and 60 hours on-call per month (63.4% vs. 18.3%). Every third (32.2%) hospital doctor in Germany worked more than this, while this pattern was rare in Norway (2.9%). In a logistic regression model, working in Norway (OR 4.17; 95% CI 3.02-5.73), age 25-44 years (OR 1.66; 95% CI 1.29-2.14) and not exceeding 9 hour work day and 60 hours on-call per month (OR 1.35; 95% CI 1.03-1.77) were all independent significant predictors of good self reported health.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>A lower percentage of German hospital doctors reported self rated health as "good", which is partly explained by the differences in work time pattern. Initiatives to increase doctors' control over their work time are recommended.</p