The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: going beyond declarations

The process of capturing and entrenching fundamental rights remains very much a live one in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In both countries there is pressure to move on from the current bill of rights legislation: the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA). While the two jurisdictions are subject to quite different political and cultural pressures, there remains a great deal of scope for exchange of ideas and experiences

The Use and Misuse of Guidance during the UK's Coronavirus Lockdown

During the critical phase of the United Kingdom Government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, between 23 March 2020 and 1 June 2020, the Government relied heavily on guidance published on its official webpage as an authoritative source of instructions and information for the population at large. This article examines the coronavirus guidance in that period and shows how it developed into a powerful sui generis form of emergency regulatory intervention. The article develops a critique of the coronavirus guidance, demonstrating how it elided and obscured the distinction between public health advice and information about legal prohibitions, a phenomenon described as the creation and exploitation of normative ambiguity. This phenomenon meant that the scope of individual liberty was unclear and at times misrepresented. Whilst the coronavirus guidance was drafted to fulfil well-intentioned public health objectives, by implying, even unintentionally, that criminal law restrictions were different or more extensive than they in fact were and by failing accurately to delineate the boundary between law and advice, the coronavirus guidance failed to respect individual autonomy in a fundamental way. The article makes a number of suggestions for ensuring that guidance satisfies minimum standards of clarity and transparency as form of emergency regulation in the future

Elliptical flux vortices in YBa2Cu3O7

The most energetically favorable vortex in YBa2Cu3O7 forms perpendicular to an anisotropic plane. This vortex is elliptical in shape and is distinguished by an effective interchange of London penetration depths from one axis of the ellipse to another. By generalizing qualitatively from the isotropic to the anisotropic case, we suggest that the flux flow resistivity for the vortex that forms perpendicular to an anistropic plane should have a preferred direction. Similar reasoning indicates that the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature for a vortex mediated transition should be lower if the vortex is elliptical in shape

Saturn antenna systems SA-5, volume 1

Antenna radiation patterns for Saturn I /Sa-5/ launch vehicle very high frequency telemetry system and minitrack-VOT syste

Development of improved plastic foam generating agents and techniques for Saturn applications Final report, Jul. 1964 - Jun. 1965

Foam system compressive strength analysis, solid urethane castings to screen polymer systems, and prepolymer methods of foam preparation in plastic foam development for Saturn projec