This article offers an intensive comparison of two queen consorts, Leonor de Trastámara, consort Carlos III Navarre (r. 1387-1425) and her sister-in-law, Joan Navarre, Henry IV England 1399-1413). Key similarities differences in their lives experience queenship are revealed by examination the major ceremonies that marked tenure as personal exercise queen’s office. As well bringing greater illum...

The primary concern of this article is a comparative analysis marriage law in three legal systems – namely, Islamic law, South African and English law. similarities differences between these are highlighted. demonstrates that although there the systems, outweigh similarities. This begs question whether (Muslim personal general family particular) can be recognised accommodated implemented (both ...

BACKGROUND Some 40% of abortions carried out in England and Wales are done by vacuum aspiration. It is widely assumed that, in order to be lawful, these procedures must be performed by doctors. AIM AND DESIGN This study aimed to provide a detailed reassessment of the relevant law and the clinical evidence that supports this assumption. CONCLUSIONS A close reading of relevant law reveals tha...

This essay examines why England experienced a civil war every fifty years from the Norman Conquest up until the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, and was completely stable after that point. The reasons had to do with, first, the slow accumulation of law and respect for the law that had occurred by the seventeenth century, and second, with the emergence of a strong English state and sense of nat...

Copies of this work may be made for non-commercial distribution to aid social care workforce development. Any other copying requires the permission of Skills for Care. Skills for Care is the employer-led strategic body for workforce development in social care for adults in England. It is part of the sector skills council, Skills for Care and Development. A scoping study of workforce development...

This article uses the only surviving working diary of an English female Poor Law guardian in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore two interrelated bodies of historiography. First, it engages with an historiography of the New Poor Law which has by and large seen the late nineteenth century as a period of atrophication. Second, it engages with a literature on female Poor L...

This paper develops a theory of the incompleteness of law. It argues that law is inherently incomplete and that the incompleteness of law has important implications for the design of lawmaking and law enforcement institutions. When law is incomplete, residual lawmaking rights must be allocated. In addition, agents have to be vested with law enforcement rights. We analyze the optimal allocation ...

The economic upheaval of a country is one the reasons for formation an international organization, namely European Union. goal Union itself to promote through community harmonious, sustainable development activity, steady improvement, rapid improvement living standards, quality life and closer relations between member states. This research has problem formulation consisting transformation EU la...

Unequal outcomes in professional hiring for individuals from less privileged backgrounds have been widely reported England. Although accent is one of the most salient signals such a background, its role unequal remains underexamined. This paper reports on large-scale study contemporary attitudes to accents A large representative sample ( N = 848) population England judged interview performance ...