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An appendix, p. [181]-278, contains, in addition to cases omitted, the Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Colebrooke upon the administration and government of Ceylon, dated December 24, 1831: and Report of Charles H. Cameron upon the judicial establishments and procedure in Ceylon, dated 31 January, 1832. ; Includes index. ; Spine title: Ráma-Náthan's reports. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This article presents findings from an exploratory study of court work in two English Magistrates' courts which was conducted in 2017. The study involved two principal research methods: observation of the daily activities of court team members and semi-structured interviews with 21 members of the two teams, which took place towards the end of the research. The aim of this article is to provide an insight into contemporary probation work in Magistrates' courts, in the wake of two major reform programmes: Transforming Rehabilitation and Transforming Summary Justice. The findings of this study raise questions about the contemporary relevance of the 'narrative of decline' that has featured in previous research and commentary on court work, and further suggests that – whilst it is early days – the creation of specialist court teams has not inevitably led to the 'incorporation' of probation workers into the dominant court culture.

Introduction / Jonathan Spangler -- "The very next blood of the king" : legitimisation and adaptation of the law of female succession in English history / Lynsey Wood -- Portugal, 1385: a people's choice or coup d'état? / Isabel de Pina Baleiras -- From election to consolidation: the strategies of legitimacy of the Trastámara Dynasty in the Crown of Aragon / Lledó Ruiz Domingo -- Sigismund of Sweden as foreigner in his own kingdom: how the King of Sweden was made an alien / Cathleen Sarti -- Free election, divine providence and constitution: legitimacy of royal power in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Jolanta Choinska-Mika and Katarzyna Kuras -- Legitimacy through family traditions? The Hanoverians represented as successors to the throne of Great Britain / Charlotte Backerra -- "The reversal of dynasties" during the Bourbon Era in the Kingdom of Naples / Cinzia Recca -- Purple dreams of the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium in manuscript illuminations: legitimising the usurping emperor, Basil I (867-886) / Alexandra Karagianni -- "King by fact, not by law": legitimacy and exequies in medieval England / Anna Duch -- The exaltation of the "holiness" of the Bragança dynasty as a legitimating strategy in the seventeenth century / Paula Almeida Mendes -- Consolidating authority in seventeenth-century Morocco: Sultan Moulay Ismail's strategies for legitimacy / Fatima Rhorchi -- Dominae imperiales: Ottonian women and dynastic stability, strength and legitimacy in tenth-century Germany / Penelope Nash -- Legitimacy represented through court entertainment: La Estatua de Prometeo and the power struggle between Queen Regent Mariana and Don Juan José of Austria / Caitlin Brady Carter -- Catherine the Great: how the question of legitimacy influenced her politics / Elena Teibenbacher.

As a new institution, the International Criminal Court needs to gain legitimacy not just with states, but also in global civil society. This article surveys current debates in civil society about whether the interests of the victims are being served and whether justice is being done, in relation to the ICC's current investigations. It will discuss the most salient sources of debate and controversy under four headings: perceived selectivity or even bias of the Court, whether ICC investigations are detrimental to peace-building efforts, the detachment of the Court from the lived reality of local populations and victims, and the issue of compensation to victims.