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An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica (2018)
Thesis
McKoy, G. A. An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253090

Notwithstanding the strategic importance of service quality to public sector reforms, the Government of Jamaica has given it no consideration in its justice reform project. Neither had anyone previously applied the service quality methodology to serv... Read More about An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica.

Law, “Tradition” and Legitimacy: Contesting Driglam Namzha (2017)
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. W. (2017). Law, “Tradition” and Legitimacy: Contesting Driglam Namzha. In J. D. Schmidt (Ed.), Development Challenges in Bhutan: Perspectives on Inequality and Gross National Happiness (115-134). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47925-5_7

During the 1990s, the High Court of Justice played a significant role in the promotion of Bhutanese culture, intertwining the development of the Bhutanese legal system with Bhutanese cultural traditions. Notably, the Research Unit of the High Court o... Read More about Law, “Tradition” and Legitimacy: Contesting Driglam Namzha.

In the shadow of the Commonwealth: legal education and democratisation in Bhutan. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Whitecross, R. W. (2015, April). In the shadow of the Commonwealth: legal education and democratisation in Bhutan. Paper presented at Commonwealth Law Legal Education 2015 Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

Bhutan, located to the north east of India is not part of the Commonwealth. However, during the early 20th century the British colonial administration developed close ties with Bhutan. During the first part of the twentieth century the newly establis... Read More about In the shadow of the Commonwealth: legal education and democratisation in Bhutan..

An assessment of the patentability of business methods in the US and European jurisdictions and an evaluation of the implications (2013)
Thesis
Sun, L. An assessment of the patentability of business methods in the US and European jurisdictions and an evaluation of the implications. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6075

Advances in information technology have enabled the design and development of innovations in business methods. This is particularly felt with IT enabled innovations such as Sun Microsystems' stateless shopping Cart for the web which is a Web shopping... Read More about An assessment of the patentability of business methods in the US and European jurisdictions and an evaluation of the implications.