Who to blame: An inquiry into universal factors accounting for output variations in public–private partnership initiatives across geographical locations. Who to be blamed for not meeting performance,innovativeness, and quality outputs?

With the current controversy and blame game on output of public–private partnership (PPP) initiatives concerns, we investigate why there may be variations in achieving innovativeness, perceived quality, and performance of PPP initiatives across different geographical locations. For instance, we investigate a scenario where “a private company involved in waste management will perform in country ‘A’ but fails to perform in country ‘B’ given the same assignment and target.” We empirically sampled and make conclusions with 475 respondents from the public sector, private sector, and academia based on a survey inquiry. We adopted the structural equation modeling method using the partial least square for the data analysis. The results show that environmental dynamism causes major variations in desired output of PPP initiatives followed by collaboration capacity, environmental fit, and absorptive capacity, respectively. The findings further show that one partner cannot be blamed entirely for causing the failure of PPP initiative. However, we conclude that because on the basis of our data, environmental dynamism, which is as a result of some governmental activities, depicts the highest effect on output, public partners might be more liable. The findings from this study are an explicit view of PPP technocrats, which makes the conclusions more reliable.     

对危险驾驶罪的法定刑设置的反思

危险驾驶罪与以危险方法危害公共安全罪、交通肇事罪共同构成维护公共交通安全的刑网体系,但是在法定刑设置上,对危险驾驶罪判处拘役并处罚金与上述两罪并不协调,也存在漏洞;罚金和拘役功能相同,并处罚金不能实现特殊预防,应增加1年以下有期徒刑和轻微危险驾驶肇事行为的刑罚配置,同时就危险驾驶的结果加重犯单独作出规定,以便与相关条文相协调。     

缅甸非政府组织反坝运动刍议

近年来,缅甸政府大力推动水电开发,中国、泰国、印度等国也积极参与其中。然而缅甸非政府组织主导的反坝运动已成为缅甸水电开发的重要阻碍,也损害了各参与国的经济利益。本文对缅甸非政府组织反坝运动的基本观点及行动方式作了初步的描述和分析,并从中国的立场出发提出因应之策。     

Reluctant Bedfellows: Want of Authority and Knowing Receipt

The case note examines the recent decision of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in Thanakharn Kasikorn Thai Chamkat (Mahachon) v Akai Holdings Ltd, where Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury adopted the test of irrationality in determining whether a defaulting agent had apparent authority to act on behalf of his principal to confer benefits on a third party. His Lordship further held that a concurrent claim in knowing receipt arose against the third party, and the test of unconscionability is substantially the same as that of irrationality. The present note argues that symmetry of the two tests is not necessary, for knowing receipt and apparent authority deal with issues that are categorically different and serve different purposes. It also examines, in the context of benefits conferred upon an underlying agreement that is void, the oft‐overlooked issue as to what amounts to receipt for the purpose of knowing receipt.     

香港律师会会长何君尧致辞

让我首先向各位提供一些有关律师行业增长的数据。相比於2010年12月底，执业律师的数目由6782上升至7101，升幅4．7％，     

中国创建学习型政府的动力系统分析

创建学习型政府是适应国内外形势、抓住机遇迎接挑战的需要。全球化的发展、知识社会的到来、信息技术的应用、传统文化的积淀、高层领导的支持等,都有力地推动着学习型政府的顺利创建。     

城市交通事故地理信息系统的建设初探

从道路交通本身的行业特点出发,交通事故处理的传统人工管理方面存在许多不足,应采用更为科学的方式来解决,即引入地理信息系统GIS来为道路交通事故的预防提供有力的支持。     

犯罪构成理论与犯罪事实认定关系考察

犯罪认定是一个动态的价值判断过程，司法三段论是这一判断过程的逻辑体现，在寻找大前提、确定小前提以及大小前提涵摄判断的过程中，犯罪构成理论并不能发挥实际的作用，因为犯罪的认定与犯罪构成理论之间并不具有必然的关联性，采取何种犯罪论体系也不会影响犯罪认定的结果。犯罪构成理论只是针对刑法规定的犯罪成立条件进行理论解读和体系建构的结果，作为解释结论它被解释对象和解释主体的前见所决定，在解释对象即刑法规定不变的前提下，不同的犯罪构成理论体系只是不同解释主体从不同逻辑前提出发所作的不同解释选择。     

科学发展观的认知和实践转化及规律

理论转化是一个认识活动和实践活动相结合的过程。科学发展观转化过程既遵循人的思想形成的知、情、信、意、行诸要素均衡发展的过程,同时也反映了"实践、认识、再实践、再认识"的人类认识发展一般规律,是一个包括理解理论、价值认同、科学践行等环节的反复循环的认识过程。把握科学发展观的转化过程及其规律,对于推进中国特色社会主义建设具有深刻的现实意义和理论意义。     

Liberalizing British Defamation Law: A Case of Importing the First Amendment?

Regardless of whether American law tends to be too outlying to be relevant to the rest of the world, the U.S. free speech jurisprudence is more impactful than ever. Indeed, the United States remains a real-life laboratory for other countries in resolving clashes between press freedom and reputation. Jameel v. Wall Street Journal Europe and other recent English media libel cases are a good illustration. This article examines the liberalization of U.K. defamation law in connection with the U.S. actual malice rule while noting English courts' significant adoption of neutral reportage, which American courts consider to be less viable as a libel defense. The principle of functionality informs the article's analytical framework.