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The Adler Restructuring Saga:Fair Wind for Dissenting Creditors?
Get PDFBesides temporary changes to address the challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, CIGA 2020 introduced a general prohibition on the validity of contractual termination clauses, as well as a new Pt 26A restructuring plan procedure and a Pt A1 statutory moratorium. The government is considering further reforms, including the enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Laws on Enterprise Groups and on Insolvency-related Judgments. The findings in the final report on the implementation of CIGA 2020 support the view that the English corporate restructuring framework provides companies in financial distress with a highly effective toolkit to turn around their businesses.In this context, it is not surprising to learn that, in 2022, the Luxembourg-incorporated and German-centred Adler group decided to rely on the English corporate restructuring framework to reach a compromise with its creditors. This case note focuses on the English restructuring proceeding. Its purpose is to clarify the relevance of this procedure and to provide some guidance on one of the most controversial and unique features of restructuring plans, i.e. the use of cross-class cram-downs against dissenting class(es) of creditors
Adam Michna z Otradovic and His ‘Christmas Eve’
Get PDFThe Czech devotional verse ‘Vánoční noc’ (‘Christmas Eve’) by Adam Michna z Otradovic, first published in his Česká mariánská muzika (Prague, 1647), and one of the best-known poems by its author, is offered in partial English translation. As a poem it is poesia per musica, intended for musical setting; a close reading of details of the poem in its musical context yields unexpected layers of meaning, and suggests that it may serve as a model for improving modern interpretations of Czech Baroque poetry more broadly
What are the barriers to mental health support for racially-minoritised people within the UK? A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis
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Demarcating the Granular Frontier:planetary urbanization without an inside
Get PDFIn its age of global crisis, sand has acquired a conspicuous profile as an urban resource and undercover vector of statecraft. Amidst mounting reports of the disastrous effects of sand mining stoked by intense cycles of urbanization and territorial expansion across the world, it is critical to understand the formation of sand’s granular frontiers, and how their differentiated expression through the global sand crisis demands a reconsideration of the theoretical frontiers of urbanization, territory, and global trade. Building on conceptualisations of sand’s granular geographies and its “geologising” of urban political ecology, this paper seeks to demarcate the theoretical and empirical terrain of sand’s granular frontiers, and how they problematize contemporary debates around urbanization’s “planetary” scope and its extractive underbelly. By reconnecting the frontiers of sand extraction and urbanization, this article theorizes the enclosure of geomorphology and where sand’s satiation of urban and state development is leading. In examining how sand’s simultaneous exclusion from formal processes of valuation and regulation structures urbanization in unpredictable ways, it seeks to provide an account of planetary urbanization without an inside
Dementia Education Opportunities for Pre-Registration Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Students- A Scoping Review
Get PDFUneven Worlds, New Minoritisations, Intersectional Privilege:Questioning different kinds of 'Global' in Musical Transmission Processes
Get PDFThis essay considers diverse applications of the term ‘global’ in higher education music pedagogies across unevenly calibrated playing fields in different classrooms beyond geo-cultural territories, and different geo-cultural voices within the same classroom. Particularly, I question motivations for self-cultivation and as-sumptions about cultural canons, as well as musical and educational doxa, from the perspectives of trans-national East and Southeast Asian participants. Often, their encounters of an idealised ‘Global North’, ‘Global West’ or even ‘New Global Self’ can lead to surprising articulations and expectations superficially parsed as ‘politically conservative’ – due to both insufficient/uneven decolonisation and the presence of post-critical, post-decolonial pragmatics. In trying to find a common ground for meaningful conversations between parties whose education journeys have been wildly different and unequally made, I push for grounded and co-curated learnings via intersubjective interrogations of how diverse lived experiences, structural privileges and conscious investment in one’s own personal development can lead to the same shared musical moment in the classroom. I look for collective and care-sensitive extrapolations from these shared moments into broader insights on deconstructing systemic difference, commonality and intersec-tionality in empathetic and community-centred ways
Reducing the global burden of cerebral venous thrombosis:An international research agenda
Get PDFBackground:Due to the rarity of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), performing high-quality scientific research in this field is challenging. Providing answers to unresolved research questions will improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and ultimately translate to a better outcome of patients with CVT. We present an international research agenda, in which the most important research questions in the field of CVT are prioritized.Aims:This research agenda has three distinct goals: (1) to provide inspiration and focus to research on CVT for the coming years, (2) to reinforce international collaboration, and (3) to facilitate the acquisition of research funding.Summary of review:This international research agenda is the result of a research summit organized by the International Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Consortium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in June 2023. The summit brought together 45 participants from 15 countries including clinical researchers from various disciplines, patients who previously suffered from CVT, and delegates from industry and non-profit funding organizations. The research agenda is categorized into six pre-specified themes: (1) epidemiology and clinical features, (2) life after CVT, (3) neuroimaging and diagnosis, (4) pathophysiology, (5) medical treatment, and (6) endovascular treatment. For each theme, we present two to four research questions, followed by a brief substantiation per question. The research questions were prioritized by the participants of the summit through consensus discussion.Conclusions:This international research agenda provides an overview of the most burning research questions on CVT. Answering these questions will advance our understanding and management of CVT, which will ultimately lead to improved outcomes for CVT patients worldwide
Egalitarian Greetings:The Social Spread of the Handshake in Urbanising Britain, 1700-1850
Get PDFHandshaking has a long multi-cultural history. This article focuses upon its diffusion in Britain 1700–1850. Two networks boosted the handshaking salutation. One was a mercantile network, extending across Europe’s urban/commercial regions. The other featured ‘middling sort’ Quaker men and women, who shook hands on principle. Gradually, the salutation became widely diffused – and acquired a range of egalitarian meanings. Handshaking was not an elite practice which ‘trickled down’ to the masses. Instead, it spread by social negotiation both ‘upwards’ and ‘downwards’ from middle-class society. Traditional hierarchy was yielding to an urbanizing and internationalizing world – with multiple individual options
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