426 research outputs found
The Lockerbie Case: H.M.Advocate v Al Megrahi and Fhimah
No full textThis chapter discusses the Lockerbie case
Reply to Stacy Lockerbie (Review of \u3cem\u3eConception Diary: Thinking About Pregnancy and Motherhood\u3c/em\u3e by Susan Hogan)
No full textReply by the author regarding the following book review: Stacy Lockerbie, JIWS, Vol. 9. No. 1. November 2007. pp. 319-321. Review of Conception Diary: Thinking About Pregnancy and Motherhood. Susan Hogan
Public Interest Immunity: Al Megrahi v HM Advocate
No full textThe Lockerbie case has already contributed significantly to the jurisprudence of the law of evidence. Al Megrahi v HM Advocate continues in that vein, shedding some light on how the law relating to public interest immunity now operates following devolution
The Lockerbie Controversy: Tension Between The International Court of Justice and the Security Council
No full textPan American Flight 103 exploded midair over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21,1988. Investigations suggested that two Libyan nationals were to blame. When the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on the Libyan government in 1993 for its failure to cooperate with U.S. and U.K extradition requests, Libya turned to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for help. Libya asked the ICJ to declare that Libya was not obliged to extradite its nationals to the United States or the United Kingdom and further asked the Court to enjoin the U.S. and the U.K from the use of force or threats against Libya. In 1998, the ICJ found it had jurisdiction to hear the case, which put two bodies of the United Nations on a collision course. The author explores how the U.N. system handles its internal tensions, and compares the international system with U.S. federalism and civil rights. How far can judicial review reach in the global system
A displacement-doubling prism
No full textThis paper describes a novel type of prism that can be used to 'noiselessly' double the sensitivity of certain types of high-sensitivity optical displacement sensor. Such a prism has been manufactured, and its displacement-doubling property has been verified
EU Counter-Terrorism Action: A fault line between law and politics? CEPS Liberty and Security, April 2010
No full textWhere is the fault line between law and politics in anti-terrorism measures? Clearly it is at the junction with individual rights. This paper examines the problem from the perspective of how the individual becomes visible as a rights holder and where. At stake is the organising principle of international relations and international la
The Lockerbie Case (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v United States of America)
No full textRaafat al-Ghossain – or ‘Fafo’, as she was known to her father Bassam, mother Saniya and younger sister Kinda – was only 18 when she was killed on 15 April 1986. Her family home in Tripoli was destroyed by a bomb dropped during an American airstrike ordered by Ronald Reagan in response to the bombing of a Berlin nightclub earlier that same year, blamed on the Libyans, in which two American soldiers were killed. Raafat, in her first year at art college in London, was back in Libya visiting her family for the holidays. Just over two months before her death she had written in her diary: ‘My life is changing. I’m slowly, at last, finding myself. It feels great at last to meet my real self. Freedom!!’ On 21 December 1988, Frank Ciulla was travelling home to his wife, Mary Lou, and their three in New Jersey for Christmas. As his flight, Pan Am 103, flew over the Scottish town of Lockerbie a bomb exploded on board the plane, killing all 259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground. His body was found eight miles from the main crash site on a farm belonging to Hugh and Mary Connell. The two families subsequently struck up a friendship, culminating in their meeting in Scotland in 1992
Anti-terrorism resolutions: the Security Council’s threat to the UN system
No full textThe United Nations Security Council’s anti-terrorism regime constitutes a serious threat to the legitimacy and unity of the United Nations system as a whole. Recent European Court of Justice jurisprudence emphasises that Security Council resolutions which breach human rights norms will not be enforced by member states. The Security Council has insufficient internal checks to ensure that it passes resolutions which sufficiently respect human rights norms. Judicial review is therefore required on the part of the International Court of Justice to ensure that the Security Council passes resolutions which remain effective and do not bring the United Nations system into disrepute.Publisher PD
High-pass phonon filter.
No full textSuperfluid 4He can be made to act as a tunable high-pass phonon filter, according to some recent experimental work at Nottingham University by Wyatt, Lockerbie and Sherlock (Phys. Rev. Left., 33, 1425; 1974)
Sampling frequency meter
No full textThe author describes a low-cost battery-powered instrument based on the c-mos Motorola MC146805 E2P microprocessor. In this instrument the input is sampled repetitively and compared with a table of values stored in memory, so that over time, a distribution of the sampled input is built up in 21 internal memory channels (20 channels plus 1 'over-range' channel). The program controlling the microprocessor can be adapted to suit different needs by simply changing the values stored in this table, and/or by changing the measuring period
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