Reducing delay in the administration of justice: The case of Uganda

This is a revised version of a paper presented at a conference organized by the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law on Criminal Law Reform in Southern Africa, Windhoek, Namibia, June 15–17, 1992.     

Security of tenure in conventional and flexible employment regimes: A neoinstitutional perspective

Security of tenure is discussed in this paper by contrasting conventional and recent hybrid so-called flexible employment regimes. These regimes will be analyzed in a neoinstitutional perspective—that is, within transaction cost and agency theory frameworks, including public choice considerations.We start from the premise that in a standard employment scenarioex ante hostages may not be taken and that limitedex post compensation payments are efficient. We then trace features of safeguarding employee investment in hybrid flexible regimes such as new independent contracting, franchising (and other relevantvariants of symbiotic contracting, capacity-oriented variable work time schemes, job sharing, and so on. We compare these new institutional creations in the labor market with standard regimes under the hypothesis that in an ideal scenario Pareto superior moves are feasible but that there is a systematic aberration from optimality caused by information asymmetries, search constraints (boundedness), and a lack of adaptive capacities of the regime users, particularly employees. This regime deception factor (RDF) needs theoretical and empirical scrutiny from both legal and economic perspectives.     

Grundwasser in Bewegung

Nachfolgend wird der Frage der Verantwortung für Vern?ssungssch?den infolge aufsteigenden Grundwassers nachgegangen. Anhand aktueller Rechtsprechung wird aufgezeigt, da? ein vom natürlichen Grundwasserwiederanstieg betroffener Grundstückseigentümer weder von Gemeinden, die Bau- oder Planungsrecht geschaffen haben, noch von Unternehmen, die den Grundwasserspiegel abgesenkt hatten, Schadensersatz oder Schutzanordnungen verlangen k?nnen. Die Pflicht zum Schutz gegen Vern?ssungen aus dem natürlichen Grundwasserwiederanstieg trifft vielmehr den Eigentümer selbst.     

Engraved Suicide Notes: The Last Note Written on Body by Metallic Object

“ Suicide notes” are the notes, where the victim has documented the intention to terminate one's own life. The victim generally writes them on a paper, notebook, wall, or mirror by means of pen or marker. However, suicide notes written on one's own body are very rare, and suicide note engraved by some metallic objects over body has not yet reported. We present two cases where the victim had used some metallic objects to write a message on the body. These may be termed “engraved suicide notes.” We believe these to be the first reported cases where a metallic object was used for engraving the last notes on the body before committing suicide.