Comments on: Libraries are more than about culture, Mr Vaizey: have a look at Newcastle, Gateshead and Liverpool https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/libraries-are-more-about-culture-mr-vaizey-have-a-look-at-newcastle-gateshead-and-liverpool.html What's happening to your library? Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Frank Daniels https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/libraries-are-more-about-culture-mr-vaizey-have-a-look-at-newcastle-gateshead-and-liverpool.html#comment-5621 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:40:54 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=3734#comment-5621 Actually, Ms Burnham, you are correct: nonfeasance is the correct term and it is a tort; an official who does not carry out his/her duties (any of them, any of the time) can be accused of nonfeasance.

]]> By: Frank Daniels https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/libraries-are-more-about-culture-mr-vaizey-have-a-look-at-newcastle-gateshead-and-liverpool.html#comment-5618 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:14:51 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=3734#comment-5618 Ms Burnham: surely the term you are looking for is “malfeasance”:
i.e. a failure by an official to do his/her official duties, or to do only some of them some of the time or none of them all of the time. Or, of course, some of them none of the time, or none of them some of the time. By now I should think that Mr Vaizey is quite exhausted don’t you know!!!

]]> By: Shirley Burnham https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2013/01/libraries-are-more-about-culture-mr-vaizey-have-a-look-at-newcastle-gateshead-and-liverpool.html#comment-5615 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:56:26 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=3734#comment-5615 The Minister, Ed Vaizey, could or should be acused of ‘nonfeasance’ in respect of his statutory duties. He is a time-server, nothing more.

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