Harmonious Construction or Judicial Disobedience of Stare Decisis? Suraini Kempe & Ors v Kerajaan Malaysia & Ors

Why Stare Decisis?∗

All Courts rule ex-post, after most economic decisions are sunk. This can generate a time-inconsistency problem. From an ex-ante perspective, Courts will have the ex-post temptation to be excessively lenient. This observation is at the root of the rule of precedent, known as stare decisis. Stare decisis forces Courts to weigh the benefits of leniency towards the current parties against the bene...

Oral rehydration Salts (ORS)

The four ingredients of ORS (glucose, sodium chloride, potassium chloride and trisodium citrate) in the concentrations described in the document entitled “Oral Rehydration Salts: a new reduced osmolarity formulation” yield an effective solution for rehydration and for the prevention of dehydration. The addition of other ingredients, such as other minerals (especially zinc) or vitamins, has not ...

Hypernatremia and ORS

Table II in the article shows thin meconium in trachea in 51.9% of the cases, whereas Table III shows thin meconium in trachea in 54.8% of the cases! Table IV shows that out of 9 babies who had intrapartum suctioning alone only one baby developed Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (MAS) (11.1%), while of those who received both intrapartum suctioning and endotracheal suctioning, 16.1% developed MAS t...

An Ecomomic Perspective on Stare Decisis

Erj{ors in Linguistic Performance

This paper examines three directions for the course of future research on speech errors: observational refinement (ways of improving how speech errors are collected and analyzed), experimentation (ways of testing hypotheses concerning the nature of speech errors), and theoretical integration (ways of improving and extending our theories). The paper also proposes a general theory of speech produ...