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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...system has been accused of failing in its duty of care for jurors. How can we tackle juror trauma? The question of supporting jurors to cope with the distressing nature of jury duty is not simple and significant changes and improvements to services are likely to take time. However, strategies can focus on three broad domains; pre-trial, concurrent to the case, and...
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Rwanda: an open and shut case?
Society, Politics & Law

Rwanda: an open and shut case?

...system had significant deficiencies; for example, a shortage of interpreters for those who did not speak French or English. Moreover, members of the refugee status determination committee, it was argued, lacked sufficient expertise and training in asylum law. These issues had resulted, the court heard, in a real risk of genuine asylum seekers being ‘refouled’ by...
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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...systems have with regard to business inputs and processes, there needs to be a vision. There is a growing body of work around these types of issues in business pedagogy. Kate Raworth, for example, whose ‘Doughnut Economics,’ considers planetary boundaries. She argues these boundaries should be protected as there are ‘unacceptable environment degradation and...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...systemic racism operate and manifest in people’s lives and in society is Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Bonilla-Silva, 1997; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Solorzano and Yosso, 2000; Delgado and Stefancic, 2001; Gillborn, 2008). [Police officer speaking to protesters with homemade placards at Anti-racism and black lives matters protest rally demonstration] CRT is a social...
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A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...system designed for this purpose. The human therapist, involved in the design and operation of the system, would not be replaced, but would become a much more efficient man since his efforts would no longer be limited to the one-to-one patient-therapist as now exists. In actuality (as Weizenbaum was all too willing to explain to anyone willing to listen) ELIZA is a...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...system failed young people so we had to make our own politics. I'm proud to have been involved in the 2010 student movement and the 2011 occupy protests, but see no contradiction between this activity and 'the aims and values of the Labour party’”. Quite apart from how this all looks, Goyder’s cases raise another rather glaring issue: people changing their minds....
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...System and other regulations. In April 2016, BSEE issued a new well control rule that required standards for design operation and testing of blowout preventers, real-time monitoring and safe drilling pressure margins. Prior to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the oil industry had effectively blocked adoption of such regulations for years. About-face under Trump President...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...system of compulsory insurance. Every worker, by contributing to a scheme of national insurance deducted through the weekly or monthly pay packet, would be helping to build up a fund that would pay out weekly benefits to those who were sick or unemployed or who suffered industrial injury. The scheme would pay pensions at the end of a working life to employees and the...
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