构建"大普法"格局势在必行

在新形势下如何大胆创新，不断超越，打造普法新理念呢？我们认为，树立“大普法”观念，构建“大普法”格局，是普法工作发展的方向。一、确立“大普法”思路———“让思想冲破牢笼”确立“大普法”思路，源于普法面临的形势和现状：（一）入世规则明确要求，各成员国必须形成成熟的法制环境。其中，各项法律、法规的迅速公开化，让大家熟知和进一步简化政府职能，淡化行政权、强化法治权是两个必备要件。但是，我国目前对法的普及速度滞后于立法。（二）国内社会治安形势依然严峻，“打防结合”是整治社会治安的整体方针，但是，“防”的…     

全面贯彻落实科学发展观努力开创“五五”普法工作新局面——全国普法办公室主任司法部部长吴爱英在第六次全国法制宣传教育工作会议上的讲话（2006年5月12日）

党中央、国务院历来高度重视法制宣传教育工作，改革开放以来，已批准实施了四个五年普法规划。今年2月中旬，中央政治局常委会议和国务院常务会议，专门听取了“四五”普法工作汇报，审议并原则同意中宣部、司法部提交的“五五”普法规划。3月中旬，中共中央、国务院批转了《中央宣传部、司法部关于在公民中开展法制宣传教育的第五个五年规划》（以下简称“五五”普法规划）。4月底，十届全国人大常委会第21次会议通过了《关于加强法制宣传教育的决议》（以下简称决议）。     

论法制宣传教育工作的新理念

党中央、国务院批转的“五五”普法规划和全国人大常委会制定的“五五”普法决议,对法制宣传教育在依法治国进程中的地位和作用作出了准确定位,也赋予了法制宣传教育工作以新的、更重的历史责任,为新形势下的法制宣传教育工作提供了新的机遇和发展动力,也提出了更高的标准和要求。各地、各部门普法依法治理职能部门及其从事法制宣传教育工作的同志如何不辱使命,进一步推动法制宣传教育工作的创新与发展,笔者认为,当务之急是要在法制宣传教育工作理念的创新上下功夫。“五五”普法规划明确要求,要研究构建社会主义和谐社会和全面建设小康社会…     

普法春雨遍洒江淮 依法治理硕果满枝——我省形成依法治理工作新体系

一个“党委领导、人大监督、政府组织实施、各部门齐抓共管、全社会广泛参与”的大普法工作格局在我省已初步形成，一个以基层依法治理为基础、行业依法治理为支柱、地方依法治理为主体的依法治理工作体系已初见规模。全省各地蓬勃开展的“五五”普法和依法治理工作，有力促进了经济社会健康发展和社会和谐稳定。     

创造性地落实“五五”普法规划

随着中共中央、国务院转发《中央宣传部、司法部关于在公民中开展法制宣传教育的第五个五年规划》和十届全国人大常委会通过《关于加强法制宣传教育的决议》,“五五”普法的序幕徐徐拉开。为贯彻落实中共中央、国务院批转的“五五”普法规划和全国人大常委会决议,最近中央宣传部、司法部联合召开了第六次全国法制宣传教育工作会议,为推动“五五”普法规划的实施作了总动员。实施“五五”普法规划,进一步加强法制宣传教育工作,对于全面贯彻落实科学发展观,保障“十一五”规划的顺利实施,构建社会主义和谐社会和全面建设小康社会,具有十分重要…     

努力推进大法宣格局的完善和发展

大法宣就是指在党委、人大和政府的领导和监督下，以法宣部门为主导，方方面面共同参与法制宣传教育的运行机制。经过３个五年的普法，大法宣格局已初见端倪。“四五”普法的基本任务，将是促使大法宣格局的进一步完善和发展。大法宣是适应新形势的必然要求计划经济向市场经济转变促使了法制宣传教育发生一系列的变化。这一进程的实现和对市场经济在一定意义上就是法治经济的认同，使法制宣传教育的本质属性及相关情形发生了一系列变化：一是对象从“单位人”转向“社会人”；二是普法要求从普及法律常识转向补充、更新法律知识；三是普法进…     

何勇强调：遏制商业贿赂蔓延势头 集中力量突破大案

一要提高认识。法制宣传教育是实施依法治国基本方略、加强社会主义民主法制建设、建设社会主义法治国家的基础性工作，对于落实科学发展观，构建社会主义和谐社会具有重要意义。各地区、各有关部门要充分认识加强法制宣传教育的重要性，克服松懈思想和厌战情绪，加强领导、精心组织，结合实际、统筹部署，把“五五”普法规划贯彻好、实施好。     

深入开展普法依法、治理扎实推进法治理工作

武汉市于2006年正式启动“五五”普法依法治理工作，市、区、各部门、各单位围绕中心、服务大局，突出重点，大胆创新，深入开展法制宣传教育，扎实推进依法治理工作，全市500万对象接受了普法宣传教育，“五”普法工作任务圆满完成。广大公民法律意识明显增强；     

海门市司法局狠抓“六个结合”提高“五五”普法效能

今年是“五五”普法第三年，也是检验普法成果的关键年。为切实提高“五五”普法效能，江苏省海门市司法局在日前召开的全市司法行政工作大会上，提出狠抓“六个结合”，全面加强今年的法制宣传工作。 一是法制宣传进机关与依法行政结合起来。今年，该局将加大对各执法机关普法工作的考核力度，把“五五”普法教育，作为检验各机关依法行政、执法水平、执法效果和公务员学法、用法、守法成效的一项重要内容。     

在新起点上谱写普法依法治理新篇章

近日，党中央、国务院以中发（２００１）８号文件批转了《中宣部、司法部关于开展法制宣传教育的第四个五年规划》，九届全国人大常委会第２１次会议也作出《关于进一步开展法制宣传教育的决议》。这两个纲领性文件标志着全民普法教育和依法治理工作又进入了一个新阶段。 党中央对法制宣传教育工作高度重视，江泽民总书记和中央领导同志多次强调要加强这项工作。新世纪、新形势、新任务对民主法制建设和法制宣传教育工作提出了新的更高的要求。“四五”普法规划确定了“两个转变、两个提高”的总体目标，即通过实施“四五”普法规划，实现…     

Can a hyphen substitute a space in a domain name?

A recent decision of the Danish Complaints Board for DomainNames addressed the issue of hyphenating words in domain namesto get around the word spacing problem, where the domain namein question conflicted with rights in a personal name.     

律师何以成讼棍

律师向法官行贿并非新闻,暗地里向审判官行贿是讼棍们祖传秘术。让人拍案惊奇的是,这位律师竟然将历来暗地里进行的潜规则公开化,合了一句成语——贿赂公行。讼棍并非是我们时代的新产品,它是专制权力的“传家宝”。宋人在《戒讼录》中曾以歌谣的形式唱道:“些小言辞莫若休,不须经县与经州,衙头府底陪茶酒,赢得猫儿卖了牛。”为何赢了猫儿卖了牛?因为牛被松棍和贪官污吏们合伙吃了去。讼棍们是如何工作的?曹雪芹在其名著《红楼梦》一书中介绍了天下第一能干、漂亮的讼棍王熙凤的入道过程。做托的是馒头庵的老尼。案情是这样的:一个大财主的…     

Why a Jury Trial is More Like a Movie Than a Novel

This essay is concerned to note the way in which successful trial advocacy seems to stem from the ability to convert legal discourse into a story form. These stories need to be ones with which a jury is familiar. These increasingly come from visual media, particularly film. It looks in detail at one trial where this process of relating a defence to the jury employed the structure of a Mafia film. The essay concludes by examining the reasons why the nature of the novel differs significantly from that of the film and how in the novel-to-film adaptation process a certain simplification is bound to occur.     

From a Civil Libertarian to a Sanitarian

This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André-Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, and Michael Adler.     

Wind-drag estimation in a traffic accident involving a motor scooter and a tractor-trailer

This case report describes a noncontact traffic accident involving a motor scooter and a tractor-trailer with a focus on the wind-drag effect. We used load cells to measure the drag force acting on a substantially similar motor scooter when a substantially similar tractor-trailer passes by it, taking into consideration various speeds of the tractor-trailer and distances between the two vehicles. A three-dimensional steady-state flow analysis was also performed by using the CFX program for computational fluid dynamics to examine the streamlines and the pressure distribution around the tractor-trailer at various speeds. From the experiment, for a separation distance of 1.0 m (3.28 ft) and a speed of 90 km/h (55.9 mph), the maximum resultant drag force is 124.5 N (28 lb); this constitutes a degree of force that could abruptly disrupt the stability in maneuvering by an operator who is unaware of the approaching tractor-trailer. In addition, a single equation that relates the tractor-trailer speed to the drag force that acts on the motor scooter was derived on the basis of the Reynolds number (Re) and the wind-drag coefficient (C(d)): C(d) = 1.298 × 10(-7) Re.     

Toolmark Identification of a Mattock to a Clod of Soil from a Grave

Abstract: At a recent bushland gravesite that contained a deceased male, a clod of soil displaying a striated toolmark was collected during the excavation of the grave. This clod was preserved, and the mark was cast using Mikrosil?. Shovels and a mattock, which had been discarded by the suspects, were subsequently found at another location. A toolmark comparison identified the hoe end of the mattock head as having produced the striated toolmark.     

Calculating likelihood ratios for a mixed DNA profile when a contribution from a genetic relative of a suspect is proposed

This technical note describes a practical method for evaluating evidence in the case of a two person conditioned DNA mixture where the defence proposition is that the unknown contributor is genetically related to the suspect. A conditioned mixture is one where the presence of DNA from one of two individuals is accepted by both prosecution and defence. A typical example would be a vaginal swab in an alleged rape case, where the presence of the complainant's DNA would be expected and samples have been taken from the complainant and a suspect. Much has been written about the interpretation of such mixtures and the calculation of the conditional genotype probabilities that must be carried out. In general, such treatments assume that the unknown contributor, under the defence proposition, is unrelated to the known individuals. In this paper, we consider the case where the defence proposition is that the unknown contributor is genetically related to the suspect. We describe a method, incorporating a flow chart and reference tables that facilitate manual calculations of the likelihood ratio for several postulated genetic relationships.