Why Withdrawal Rights?

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

Propranolol withdrawal syndrome - why?

FEW WHO HAVE WITNESSED the propranolol withdrawal phenomenon would deny its existence. The syndrome, which comprises the development of ventricular arrhythmias, severe angina, myocardial infarction and even death soon after sudden cessation of propranolol therapy, was first described in a series of case reports.' Perhaps the most convincing evidence was obtained by Miller et al.,6 who noted a 5...

Children’s Associational Rights? Why Less Is More

Reset and withdrawal rights in dynamic fund protection

We analyze the nature of the dynamic fund protection which provides an investment fund with a floor level of protection against a reference stock index (or stock price). The dynamic protection feature entitles the investor the right to reset the value of his investment fund to that of the reference stock index. The reset may occur automatically whenever the investment fund value falls below tha...

Patients' rights--why the Australian courts have rejected 'Bolam'.

This point of view compares the issue of informed patient consent primarily as it operates in Australia and the United Kingdom. It affords an overview, also, of the applicable law in the United States and Canada. It particularly focuses on the legal test to be applied to patient consent as established in the Bolam case in the United Kingdom. The case, following its approval by the House of Lord...