The Legal Reporting Awards, now in their 21st year, were established by the Bar Council to recognise print and broadcast journalists whose work contributes to improving public understanding and awareness of legal issues.
Everyone who claims a say was there - all the members of the Council, the observing states, engaged NGOs, and a spectrum of academics and scientists whose work contributes to the process.
David Heaps, whose work contributed to a decision by the the Ford Foundation to start a large-scale international human rights program, died on June 10 in Montclair, N.J.
Mr. Peterson helped lead a task force whose work contributed to the global phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons, the organic chemicals widely used as refrigerants that contribute to depletion of the ozone.
Iain Standen, chief executive of the Bletchley Park Trust, said Turing was "a visionary mathematician and genius whose work contributed enormously both to the outcome of the war and the computer age".
Corporate partners will be unveiled in a few months but some academics whose work contributed to the technology let the kimono slip recently during a shindig at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology.
March 28 , 1817Morra Irpina, Italy December 29 , 1883Naples, Italy Francesco De Sanctis, (born March 28 , 1817 Morra Irpina, Kingdom of Naples [now in Italy] died Dec. 29, 1883, Naples, Italy) Italian literary critic whose work contributed significantly to the understanding of Italian literature and civilization.
Francesco De Sanctis, (born March 28 , 1817 Morra Irpina, Kingdom of Naples [now in Italy] died Dec. 29, 1883, Naples, Italy), Italian literary critic whose work contributed significantly to the understanding of Italian literature and civilization.
That earlier commission was named for Ferdinand Pecora, the investigative counsel for a Senate committee during the Depression whose work contributed to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and provisions in the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated investment and commercial banks.
And so the gyre goes on widening, to take in such figures as David Shayler, quondam spy and latter-day transvestite-cum-messiah, and misguided ones such as Paul Britton, the clinical psychologist and criminal profiler whose work contributed to the wrongful arrest of Colin Stagg for the murder of Rachel Nickell.
There are also knighthoods for Prof Thomas Kibble and Prof Tejinder Virdee of Imperial College, London, whose work contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson, or so-called "God particle", and Paul Gormley, chief executive of the Disasters Emergency Committee.
