Moving towards a General Duty: An Analysis of the
Duty to Give Reasons in UK Administrative Law |
Luke W Griffiths
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Currently UK law does not recognize the giving of
reasons for administrative decisions as a core element
of procedural fairness. This means that public bodies
who are not under a specific legal duty to provide
reasons can make decisions against applicants and
not disclose their reasoning. Given that reason-giving
is an accepted core value of rational administration
and, in the words of Lord Justice Sedley, that ‘the
decisions of administrative bodies can have a more
immediate and profound impact on peoples lives than
the decisions of courts’ the law can and should create
a general legal duty to give reasons.
Haemophilia: symptoms, treatments and future
developments | Catriona Heyes
Haemophilia is a rare sex-linked genetic disorder
in men resulting in lack of factor VIII (A) or IX (B),
which are involved in the clotting process. Prolonged
bleeding in response to injury can cause serious joint
and soft tissue damage. Treatment aims to control
bleeding by replacing missing factor, by frequent
prophylactic infusions or on-demand when bleeding
occurs. Prophylaxis requires frequent intravenous
infusions, but results in better long-term outcomes
versus on-demand schedules. Treatment advances
include long-acting factor formulations, enabling
less frequent infusions,. Recently, novel non-factor
products which enhance coagulation or inhibit
anti-coagulation pathways are becoming available,
including emicizumab and fitusiran.
Collateral damage: Effectiveness and environmental
impacts of mosquito-borne disease control options |
Daniel Jones
Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) are one of the
most significant problems faced by humanity today.
As science has advanced, various strategies and
technologies have been developed to counter the
spread of these diseases. However, these can vary
in their effectiveness and have a range of negative
effects on the environment. This poster presentation
will explore the effectiveness and environmental
impacts of a range of current and proposed options
for mosquito-borne disease control, as well as
measures currently being developed to mitigate said
impacts.
Rescuing the farmers | Sasini Lelwela
Being a farmer has become a shunned choice
of employment and it is rapidly declining. The
mainstream notion that food shortages would be an
inevitable reality without agriculture is proving to be
true. Though many have blamed globalisation for the
depreciating affect it has on the traditional farming
countries of the world, globalisation by all means
is not a force that should be stopped. But for the
future survival of humanity, more sustainable farming
methods must be efficiently enforced to rescue a vital
but a declining industry.
The damage of woodland management in Keele
Springpool wood | Samuel Marks
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In response to an outbreak in 2013 of Phytophthora
ramorum (PR) all 1600 larch trees (Larix kaempferi)
present in Springpool Wood were felled to eliminate
possible PR hosts. PR, related to the Irish Potato
Blight, is deadly to oak, beech and larch trees.
Though results show successful PR eradication, the
ecological impact of removing 20% of Springpool
Wood’s tree population has not been studied. The
detriment to woodland biodiversity was evaluated by
comparing ground flora species richness in affected
areas. The implications of this research apply both
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