New Ont. women's health agency.
Caroline Andrew, the first chair of Echo, Ontario's new women's health agency, replaces the former Women's Health Council, Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman announced. The new agency will: * conduct, and fund research; * provide input to government policy and promote...

Electronic reserves: key issues and innovations.
Pending the resolution of this issue Monash University Library has adopted an `interim solution' and a formula for calculating a reasonable royalty. The experience at Monash is described in detail. My first ever job in a library was at what was then called the Public Library of New...

Law and English Railway Capitalism: 1825-1875.
For most specialists in modem British history, legal history after 1688 remains something of a nightmare. The advent of doctrine in areas such as tort and contract law quickly reduces those without specific legal training to frustration because the legal perspective, as demonstrated by a century of law review...

The commoning of the common law: the Renaissance debate over printing English law, 1520-1640.
I. WHY WAS IT ACCEPTABLE TO PRINT LAW? A. Humanism B. Protestantism II. THE DEBATE OVER THE RISKS AND ADVANTAGES OF PUBLISHING LAW: PUBLICISTS AND ANTI-PUBLICISTS A. Forensic Boundaries B. Contrasting Predictions 1. The Law's "Mystery"; Publicist Appropriations of ...

Business is busyness, or the work ethic.
"NOWHER SO BISY A MAN AS HE THER NAS," WE READ OF ONE OF CHAUCER'S pilgrims; "And yet he semed bisier than he was." And yet? The logic of these lines seems more than a little mischievous. Nowhere could there be found a man as busy as this, and...

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association celebrates 60 years. Excerpts from an historical review by Selby Steele.
DUE TO rising costs and neglect in forward planning the financial position of Australian hospitals has never been worse. An additional reason for their present difficult situation is the political difference of policy between the various Governments, Federal and State. From an editorial in The Australian Modern Hospital, 1949....

Professional protection.
Byline: Aman Dhall & Dheeraj Tiwari The dying moments of an electric football match. With teams tied at one goal each, England's David Beckham is not on the field. He has twisted his ankle while fighting for the possession of the football. The physical trainer says he...

First Indian law firm's UK entry creates a splash.
Byline: Sudeshna Sen (##include msid=2459375,type=9 ##) LONDON: FoxMandal Little has become the first major Indian law house to set up a practice in the UK and in the process created quite a splash in the local legal community. The firm intends to service the growing...

After MBAs and techies, law graduates move abroad.
Byline: Dibeyendu Ganguly MUMBAI: First it was the IIMs and IITs. Now, it's the turn of India's premier law schools to export talent abroad. At the National Law School, Bangalore, 20 out of the 65 students who have applied for campus placements this year are joining foreign...

Why did Law Minister visit London in '05?
Byline: Rajeev Deshpande & Dhananjay Mahapatra NEW DELHI: A stop over in London in October 2005 could well become a headache for Law Minister H R Bharadwaj. It is undisputable that he was returning to India from Ghana after attending the Commonwealth Law Ministers meeting...