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Red Tape tells the sometimes astonishing story of the making of laws, both good and bad, the recent explosion in rule making, and the failure of repeated attempts to rationalise the statute books - even governments themselves are concerned about the increasing number and complexity of our laws. Society requires the rule of law, but the rule of too much law means that the general public faces frustrating excesses created by overzealous regulators and lawmakers. Robin Ellison reveals the failure of repeated attempts to limit the number and complexity of new laws, and the expansion of regulators. He challenges the legislature to introduce fewer yet better laws and regulators by encouraging lawmakers to adopt practices which improve the efficiency of the law and the lives of everyone. Too much law leads to frustration for all - Red Tape is a long overdue exposé of our legal system for practitioners and consumers alike.

Law --- Justice, Administration of --- Bureaucracy --- Interorganizational relations --- Political science --- Public administration --- Organizational sociology --- Anglo-American law --- Law, Anglo-American

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Often overlooked by modern critics, The Reverberator was a departure from Henry James' immediately preceding novels, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, returning to the popular 'international theme' of his earlier fiction. Its comedy of manners explores the conflicting values of American and Europeanized characters in the context of topical cultural concerns. Most notably, in its satire on popular journalism and an emerging mass-media through the scandal sheet 'The Reverberator', the novel dramatizes what James presciently saw as the 'devouring publicity' of modern life. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1888), provides a thorough account of the novel's sources and composition, literary and historical contexts, and extensive revision for the New York Edition (1908), as well as extensive annotation. It will be of interest to James scholars, students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and historians of journalism and new media.

Journalists --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) --- Paris (France) --- 18.06 Anglo-American literature. --- Journalists. --- Triangles (Interpersonal relations). --- France --- James, Henry,

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This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised, in particular, by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society and by the presence of other bilinguals in court, thus presenting specific challenges for the interpreters who work in it, and at times rendering the interpretation service superfluous. This study, inter alia, problematises judges’ intervention in the court proceedings, Chinese witnesses testifying in English, as well as English-language trials heard by Chinese jurors. It demonstrates how the use of chuchotage proves to be inadequate and inappropriate in the Hong Kong courtroom, where interpreting in an English-language trial is arguably provided to cater for the need of the linguistic majority. This book is useful to interpreters, language educators, legal professionals, forensic linguists and policy makers alike.

Interpreting --- Law --- Hong Kong --- #KVHA:Vertaalwetenschap --- #KVHA:Tolken; Hong Kong --- Court interpreting and translating --- Translators --- Common law --- Conduct of court proceedings --- Conduct in courtrooms --- Courtroom decorum --- Decorum in court --- Legal decorum --- Court proceedings --- Legal etiquette --- Procedure (Law) --- Anglo-American law --- Law, Anglo-American --- Customary law --- Interpreters --- Linguists --- Translating services --- Bilingual court services --- Courts --- Translating and interpreting --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Language --- E-books --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Language. --- Court interpreting and translating - China - Hong Kong --- Translators - Legal status, laws, etc. - China - Hong Kong --- Common law - China - Hong Kong - Language --- Conduct of court proceedings - China - Hong Kong

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How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a critical eye on the two nations' turbulent history together, Amy Kaplan unearths the roots of controversies that may well divide them in the future.

National characteristics, American. --- Israel --- United States --- Israel --- Foreign public opinion, American. --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- ADL. --- AIPAC. --- Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. --- Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. --- Anti-Semitism. --- Arafat. --- Carter. --- Elie Wiesel. --- Exodus. --- Holocaust Memorial. --- Holocaust. --- I. F. Stone. --- Intifada. --- Lebanon. --- Menachem Begin. --- Nazism. --- Richard Crossman. --- Zionism. --- al-Qaeda.

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This work is a 'post Chilcot' history of Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq in March 2003. Deploying the large number of primary documents and retrospective testimonies of participants, Blunder reconstructs the assumptions underlying decisions, the policy 'world' that participants inhabited 2001-2003, and the way decisions were made. Contrary to much of the existing literature, this volume puts ideas in the centre of the story. As the text argues, Britain's war in Iraq was caused by bad ideas that were dogmatically held.

Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Participation, British. --- Iraq Inquiry (Great Britain) --- Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 --- Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 --- Gulf War II, 2003-2011 --- Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 --- New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 --- Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 --- Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 --- Operation Telic, 2003-2011 --- Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 --- Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 --- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 --- Chilcot Inquiry (Great Britain) --- Chilcot Report (Great Britain) --- Great Britain. --- Iraq War (2003-2011) --- 2003-2011 --- Iraq. --- Iraq War (2003-) --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Bilād --- Irak --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Republic of Iraq