The Civil Partnership Act 2004, which came into force in December 2005 allowing same-sex couples in the UK to register their relationship for the first time, celebrated its fifth anniversary in December 2010. This article examines civil partnership in England and Wales, five years on from its introduction. The characteristics of those forming civil partnerships between 2005 and 2010 including a...

although in principle the benefit and loss resulted from partnership is to be taken into consideration in private relationships proportionate to the parties’ shares, prediction of stipulating more benefit or exempting all or part of the loss in the company’s contracts, with respect to the existing necessities and the need for maximum participation, is a common practice. whereas, the article 575...

The pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. According to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

This project’s main objective is to engage employers within the civil and construction sector, working in partnership with the Department of Civil Engineering (DCE) at the University of Greenwich as well as schools and colleges within the Kent region, to promote the study of civil engineering related courses/programmes amongst female students. This project also proposed to raise funding from it...

the pattern of governance is a new topic which has found its traces in urban management, and has the features of continuance, decision making, justice, efficiency, effectiveness, clarity, accountability, partnership, and immunity, all of which are interdependent and empowering. according to this pattern, decisions about civil affairs are taken with the cooperation of government, private sectors...

When 21 biopharmaceutical companies recently launched the Access Accelerated Initiative (AAI) on prevention and care for non-communicable diseases (NCD) [1] in Davos, Switzerland, it was described as a ‘global, multi-stakeholder collaboration’. The need for partnership is included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). SDG 17 aims to “Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable devel...

The objective of this study is to understand why e-government projects are initiated at the first place. I define an e-government project as an effort by a government agency by itself or by partnership with other government agencies, private firms and/or civil societal organizations to use information and communication technologies (hereafter ICTs; they are technologies that capture, transmit a...