Cost overruns, management problems found in British Antarctic projects
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The UK National Audit Office (NAO) rebuked the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in 1993 for overshooting its budget in some of the BAS capital projects in the last few years. Although the NAO praised the quality of BAS research, it singled out for criticism the construction of the new research vessel RRS James Clark Ross and the Rothera station's airstrip and berthing jetty, both of which cost several million pounds sterling more than projected. The significant cost overruns were blamed mainly on poor planning.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Science faces new treatment in British courts
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The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice recently suggested sweeping changes in the courts, including revisions to the treatment of forensic science. It advised that the Forensic Science Service not be split from the Home Office, but that a new Forensic Science Advisory Council be established; that forensic witnesses for prosecution and defense should meet beforehand to discuss the evidence; and that experts be allowed to volunteer testimony in the witness box.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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British ruling supports legal challenge to broad patents
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The House of Lords, Britain's highest legal authority, has decreased the breadth of protection given by the patent for a discovery or invention. The decision invalidated the case filed by Biogen Inc. Massachusetts, against Medeva, a British company, under a patent for hepatitis-B vaccine production using genetic engineering technology. It overcomes the weakness in the European patent legislation, under which once a patent is granted, it cannot be challenged.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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