New Zealand has evolved a just, sensible and balanced system for addressing adverse medical events. This article considers potential changes to enhance justice for health consumers after an adverse event. Patient motivations for claiming are described. Changes to the complaints regime are considered with the aim of opening up access to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. Modest change only is adv...

[Although the issue of cumulative offences (concursus delictorum) is well developed in various national criminal justice systems, concursus delictorium is only at the formative stages of its development in international criminal law. Through an examination of the jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Tribunal for Rwanda, this article highlig...

Kloss makes a number of key observations about the role of occupational health (OH) practitioners in relation to tribunal cases [1]. She states the importance of tribunals understanding the expertise of those in OH, but then describes a doctor with an Associate of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine as a 'specialist'. An understandable error, but it does emphasize the difficulties non-medical ...

Erratum for Mirhendi et al., the first case of onychomycosis in a koala (phascolarctos cinereus) due to atypical isolates of Microsporum gypseum, a diagnostic challenge Mirhendi H1,2*, Nishiyama Y3, Rezaei-Matehkolaei A4, Satoh K5, Makimura K5 1. Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2. Department of Medi...

DURING iTS two hundred and sixty-eight years of domination over the Maltese Islands (1530-1798), the Order of St. John of Jerusalem waged an unceasing war against the Barbary and Turkish pirates in the Mediterranean. Those who escaped death were enslaved by the victor, irrespective of sex or age, or whether they were combatants or simply passengers and crews of unarmed vessels; so much so that ...

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Reasoning from cases has always played a large part in law and so the ability to effectivelyretrieveandreuseoldcases informulatingnewdecisions andarguments is important. This paper examines techniques for improving retrieval effectiv eness by using the structure present in the text cases. The Refugee Review Tribunal cases are pre-processed into a consistent structure and evidence from the case ...

35 A Virtual Train with a Container Using Visual and Auditory Representation of Train Movement Kunihiro Nishimura, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Yasuhiro Suzuki, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Munehiko Sato, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The Univers...