[Hearings, reports and prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Internal Security]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on the District of Columbia]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs]

Mode of access: Internet.

[Hearings, reports and prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging]

Mode of access: Internet.

A transatlantic case: the derivative action as a corporate governance tool

The derivative action as a minority shareholder protection device seems to be almost a dead-letter law in the British Isles as compared with the United States. Whether it can or should be revived through legislative reform and judicial interpretation presents us with important governance questions at first instance, but also raises questions regarding the importance of law, as distinct from non-legally enforceable norms, to the development of corporate governance systems, in particular regarding the director-shareholder relationship.

Market reforms and privatisation in the English National Health Service

The article examines developments in the marketisation and privatisation of the English National Health Service, primarily since 1997. It explores the use of competition and contracting out in ancillary services and the levering into public services of private finance for capital developments through the Private Finance Initiative. A substantial part of the article examines the repeated restructuring of the health service as a market in clinical services, initially as an internal market but subsequently as a market increasing opened up to private sector involvement. Some of the implications of market processes for NHS staff and for increased privatisation are discussed. The article examines one episode of popular resistance to these developments, namely the movement of opposition to the 2011 health and social care legislative proposals. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these system reforms for the founding principles of the NHS and the sustainability of the service.

Legislative update

Every week the General Assembly is in session the South Carolina House of Representatives, Office of Research publishes the Legislative Update, a digest of action on the floor of the House and action in full House committees.

Legislative update

Every week the General Assembly is in session the South Carolina House of Representatives, Office of Research publishes the Legislative Update, a digest of action on the floor of the House and action in full House committees.