These findings have wide-ranging implications, not only for those committed to the control of NTDs in Uganda and other parts of East Africa, but also for furthering our understanding of the role public policy can play in alleviating sickness and poverty more generally.
Currently, the Immigration Act allows whipping only for those committing the offense for the second time.
The examination of the consequences that a single act can have not only for the person committing it but also, through the ripple effect, for many others brings us into the territory of Ian McEwan's Atonement.
The appeals court said that the government was liable only for injuries committed by law enforcement officers when they are "executing a search, seizing evidence or making arrests for violations of federal law".
The problem is that the law seems to reduce sentences only for offenses committed after it went into effect in August.
Fifteen years from the trial's conclusion, a poll conducted by The New Paper reported that 30 per cent of its respondents had picked the Toa Payoh ritual murders as the most horrible crime, despite the paper's request to vote only for crimes committed in 1998.
The court has issued genocide convictions only for crimes committed in Srebrenica, angering victim and human rights groups that are convinced genocide also occurred in northern and eastern Bosnia, where Serbian forces began their ethnic cleansing campaign in 1992, expelling thousands of non-Serbs.
In any event, state prosecutors have power to investigate federal officials only for wrongs committed in a private capacity.
A serving president can be removed only for misdeeds committed during his or her current term of office.
"This is something that people have long suspected, that in essence it is a penalty only for crimes committed that are seen as important crimes and that people don't think of it as an important crime unless it's against a high status person".
