Mary Kane

A collection of little stories that brim with the tiny, specific details of a moment -- the cups, the shoes, the scarves, the books -- and the humor, tenderness, uneasiness, sadness, and wisdom that define entire lives.

Are you involved in making decisions in court, a tribunal, or another formal decision-making environment? This book gives guidance in the skills required to reach and deliver well-structured judicial decisions.The authors (all of whom have extensive judicial and quasi-judicial experience across England and Wales) guide the readers on the skills required at each stage of a hearing, including: ensuring there is a fair hearing; standards and conduct for decision-makers; successful communication; taking into account the needs of vulnerable participants and litigants in person; case management; assessing evidence; and reaching and delivering a well-structured decision.The book includes practical guidance, examples, and short exercises to help the reader engage with the issues discussed and understand the skills required. Having this book to hand will enable you to make effective and fair decisions that inspire confidence.

Are you involved in making decisions in court, a tribunal, or another formal decision-making environment? This book gives guidance in the skills required to reach and deliver well-structured judicial decisions.The authors (all of whom have extensive judicial and quasi-judicial experience) instruct the readers on the skills required at each stage of a hearing, including:- ensuring there is a fair hearing process;- standards and conduct of decision-makers;- successful communication;- taking into account the needs of vulnerable participants and litigants in person;- case management;- assessing evidence; and- the process of reaching and then delivering a well-structured decision.The book includes practical guidance, examples, and short exercises to help the reader engage with the issues discussed and understand the skills required. Buy this book and you will have the confidence you need to make great decisions.

'Door' is the first collection of poems by Mary Kane. In the words of one reviewer, "The title poem in Mary Kane's collection, 'Door, ' ends with the line, "I only have to change / utterly to enter." As a reader, I changed utterly by the time I reached the last poem in the collection. At least that's how I felt: suffused with understanding deeper than mere language. Kane is a deft word-weaver who is able to create this mysteriously wordless effect. Objects are concretely themselves, and yet, visited again, become doorways to another way of seeing the physical world or to another state of being....Indeed, if 'Door' leads us anywhere, it is to the heart of the unendurable-grief, despair, loneliness-and then back, somehow, to a window."