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The Act of Settlement 1701
No full textFor those concerned with the law and legal profession, the Act of Settlement 1701 may be best known for establishing security of tenure for judges and thus ensuring that senior judges could not be dismissed simply because they had earnt the displeasure of the monarch. Whilst the statutory protection of judicial independence is and remains significant and was, of course, an important issue for those drafting the legislation, it was the succession to the English Crown that was the chief concern in the final years of William III’s reign. This chapter will consider why and how Parliament sought to legislate to amend the order of succession, to exclude Catholics from the throne, and to disinherit the natural successor to James II, his son Prince James Edward. Significantly, the Act of Settlement assured a Protestant monarchy, the Hanoverian accession, and in turn, led to the creation of the office of Prime Minister, the development of cabinet government, and the constitutional monarchy. It is an Act that continues to discriminate against Catholics, as a Catholic still cannot become monarch. Nonetheless, despite its clear discriminatory language, it is apparent that the Act of Settlement has played a pivotal role in securing judicial independence and ensuring meaningful security of tenure for judges and the development of the rule of law. Thus, it is a ‘leading work’ in British constitutional history
Monaghan, P J, 2790496
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/405691Surname: MONAGHAN. Given Name(s) or Initials: P J. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 2790496. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: SEA-4370.243875
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Additional Figures from Etherington and Monaghan
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Reconsidering the position of jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise
No full textThe jury oath requires jurors to return a true verdict according to the evidence. Where a juror happens to have specialist knowledge or expertise in relation to an issue to be determined at trial, the law draws a distinction between the juror applying their own common sense and personal knowledge to the evidence and importing their own specialist knowledge to other jurors. While the former is permitted, the latter is prohibited on the basis that this would introduce extraneous, untested evidence into the deliberations. This distinction places jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise in a difficult position and puts even the most responsible and diligent juror at risk of unconscious jury bias. This chapter explores the jurisprudence on jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise and considers the practicability of this narrow distinction
George Monaghan
No full textMarietta High School students; studio portrait. George Monaghan (Orian, v. 16, 1934, p. 51)
The depiction of the British constitution in caricature, 1784-1819
No full textThere is a different, important but underexplored source of British constitutional meaning and history: visual, satirical caricature, that is, pictures – prints – that give us an account of the past. They allow those with an interest in the constitution and political machinations to see how these events were depicted by witnesses to what was then breaking news. The caricatures were never a truly accurate representation. They were intended to convey particular viewpoints, often satirical and humourous. Such prints often reflected the views of those who paid for them to be created and published or the artist’s own political views. Alternatively, the prints were produced because the artist believed they would sell well. A print critical of Charles James Fox might sell more copies than one depicting William Pitt the Younger. Irrespective, such caricatures embody important constitutional meaning and deserve to be revisited. To this end, this chapter takes five prints published between 1784 and 1819 during the reign of George III and examines them as leading works of the constitution, which provide considerable insight into the constitution. The caricatures represent how the population may have engaged with and understood the representation of contemporary constitutional events. Today, these prints, and many others remain a visible legacy of the past and are still easily recognisable, and the most famous are often imitated by contemporary cartoonists to make a point
Monaghan, P J, [No Service Number]
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/405694Surname: MONAGHAN. Given Name(s) or Initials: P J. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: [No Registration Number]. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 11261.243881
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Raw data for additional figure 5, Etherington and Monaghan
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Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing
No full textPena, Bonatti, Nespor, and Mehler (2002) investigated an artificial language where the structure of words was determined by nonadjacent dependencies between syllables. They found that segmentation of continuous speech could proceed on the basis of these dependencies. However, Pena et al.'s artificial language contained a confound in terms of phonology, in that the dependent syllables began with plosives and the intervening syllables began with continuants. We consider three hypotheses concerning the role of phonology in speech segmentation in this task: (1) participants may recruit probabilistic phonotactic information from their native language to the artificial language learning task; (2) phonetic properties of the stimuli, such as the gaps that precede unvoiced plosives, can influences segmentation; and (3) grouping by phonological similarity, between dependent syllables contributes to learning the dependency. In a series of experiments controlling the phonological and statistical structure of the language, we found that segmentation performance is influenced by the three factors in different degrees. Learning of nonadjacent dependencies did not occur when (3) is eliminated. We suggest that phonological processing provides a fundamental contribution to distributional analysis. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Modelling multimodal language processing
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145196.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 07 december 2015Promotores : Meyer, A.S., Monaghan, P. Co-promotor : Huettig, F.357 p
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