The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: A Litany of Fundamental Flaws?

This article argues that the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 are fatally flawed notwithstanding the apparent rigour of the process which produced them. These Regulations were the product of considerable deliberation following a sensitively executed public inquiry yet, it is argued, they rely too heavily on the rhetoric of criminal law while failing to take into account the competing norms for compliance and the impact of NHS budget constraints. Further, they push the CQC towards a heavy‐handed deterrence approach to enforcement, which will increase hostility between regulatees and the inspectorate, and ultimately reduce the scope for developing the transparency about failures which is sorely needed in the NHS. This article challenges the contemporary wisdom that it is primarily knee‐jerk regulatory responses that suffer from fatal flaws of this nature.     

试论出口食品进入国际市场的“通行证”

在我国出口贸易中 ,出口食品“通行证”( HACCP—食品安全卫生预防体系 )具有十分重要的位置。文章对 HACCP的应用状况进行分析 ,提出了在我国全面推行 HACCP体系的举措 ,并提出了完善立法的仪     

迟延交付问题的方法论检讨--《海商法》第50条的解释论

针对实践中出现的当事人未明确约定交货时间情况下的迟延交付问题的争议,运用解释论的一般原理,展开评述,强调解释时各种标准的结合,并对何谓《海商法》未作规定、如何正确理解“特殊法无规定时适用普通法”的原理及其与漏洞填补的关系发表见解。     

超市物流配送中心模式的合理选择

连锁超市是否能够成功经营,在很大程度上取决于与之相适应的配送中心的建设。我国连锁超市配送中心的建设目前虽然存在很多问题,但立足实际,走共同配送的道路,必然会取得更大的发展。     

From government to governance: External influences on business risk management

The influence of external organizations and pressures on business risk management practices has hitherto been examined through the influence of state regulatory regimes on businesses. This article concentrates on key socio‐legal concerns about the influence of the law in social and economic life. We know that the sources of regulation and risk management are diversifying beyond the state. What we do not have is much empirically informed research about the range of sources influencing the business world and in particular the weighting of influence exercised by them. In this paper we explore the understandings regulatory actors have of the different external pressures on business risk management through an empirical study of the understandings of those in the food retail sector about the management of food safety and food hygiene risks. A broader objective is to throw some further light onto the debate about regulation within and beyond the state.     

从"卡斯尔伯里食品案"看我国食品召回的法律规制

近年来,我国食品安全事件频发,食品安全形势十分严峻,严重地危害着人民群众的生命健康,完善食品相关法律制度,健全相关法律法规成为当务之急。由美国卡斯尔伯里紧急召回90种疑似染肉毒杆菌食品案入手,提出问题,通过分析我国质量监督检验检疫总局出台的《食品召回管理规定》相关立法规定,认为我国食品安全召回制度还存在些许缺陷与不足,并提出规制食品召回制度的对策和建议。     

我国期货市场法制化建设中的问题及对策

分析了我国期货市场竞争无序 ,期货交易所的开办和运作不规范 ,从加强期货立法、科学构筑期货交易法律关系等方面寻找解决上述问题的途径     

非“适度进口”的风险防范

"适度进口"是在公平国际贸易体制下,基于国内粮食供需平衡合理进口的农业可持续发展策略。受"新自由主义"、有限农业资源与GDP主义等因素的影响,特别是"基因革命","过度"的粮食进口将进一步加剧粮食市场结构性矛盾、农业环境与生命健康的潜在风险以及粮食主权的安全。为此,应以独立平等的立法权、"双反"的司法救济权与农业"特殊保障机制"的自卫权维护粮食主权;以完善农业政策立法调整粮食产业结构,使粮食供需与生态平衡,限制和禁止转基因粮食进口,构建"适度进口"策略的法律框架,确保粮食安全。     

Explaining Levels of Local Government Involvement in Service Delivery: The Dynamics of Cross‐Sector Partnerships in Malawi

This study explores how local governments and their development partners—that is, donors, non‐governmental organisations and private companies—structure their partnerships as they work together to provide services to communities. Cases of collaboration between four organisations working in the rural water supply sector and six local governments in Malawi are studied. Using a cross‐case qualitative methodology, we illustrate how power and control translate into practices, leading to different levels of local government involvement in service delivery. This study contributes to the literature on cross‐sector partnerships in particular by developing empirically‐based propositions that help explain the dynamic trajectories that partnerships between local governments and their development partners can take. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Of diet and profit: on the question of subsistence crises in nineteenth-century Iran

This article enquires into the socioeconomic causes of recurrent food scarcity in the nineteenth-century Middle East. Focusing on Iran as a case study, the paper shows that certain categories involved in the production and distribution of grain engaged in profiteering schemes and thereby contributed to the making of food shortage in urban settings. The most important of these groups were the government officials, the landed classes, and the grain merchants. The local bakers were also involved, but they did not have as decisive a role as the other groups. In showing how these categories engaged in market manipulation, the paper contends that food scarcity cannot be explained without a proper understanding of the commercialization of grain and the economic integration of the Middle East in the nineteenth century.