Книги издательства Oxford University Press
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 1992
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This is a collection of contributed essays on the social history of the English language. It will be the second volume in the Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics series, edited by Edward Finegan. Linguists are increasingly aware that external social contact can be as significant as internal grammatical structure in instigating and determining the direction of changes within a language's syntax, phonology, and lexicon. Despite this fact, however, existing textbooks on the history of English give scant attention to this sociolinguistic perspective. The present work is designed to serve as a much needed supplement to such texts. The essays in the volume, written by recognized authorities in their fields, address each of the traditional periods of English. Topics covered include: the social status and uses of English, the relations between English and co-existent languages, the relations between varieties of spoken and written language, language as a political and socio-economic instrument, and attitudes towards varieties of English. The book should attract supplementary use in courses in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics as well as in the history of the English language.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
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- Develops a coherent and consistent theory that integrates different approaches to the study of international cooperation and the environment — Provides information on over 300 treaties — Analyses a number of case studies (e.g. depletion of the ozone layer, whaling, pollution of the Rhine, acid rain, over-fishing, pollution of the oceans, and global climate change) — Puts forward policy prescriptions for negotiating better treaties Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do. A few treaties, such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, succeed. Most, however, fail to alter the state behaviour appreciably. This book develops a theory that explains both the successes and the failures. In particular, the book explains when treaties are needed, why some work better than others, and how treaty design can be improved. The best treaties strategically manipulate the incentives states have to exploit the environment, and the theory developed in this book shows how treaties can do this. The theory integrates a number of disciplines, including economics, political science, international law, negotiation analysis, and game theory. It also offers a coherent and consistent approach. The essential assumption is that treaties be self-enforcing-that is, individually rational, collectively rational, and fair. The book applies the theory to a number of environmental problems. It provides information on more than three hundred treaties, and analyses a number of case studies in detail. These include depletion of the ozone layer, whaling, pollution of the Rhine, acid rain, over-fishing, pollution of the oceans, and global climate change. The essential lesson of the book is that treaties should not just tell countries what to do. Treaties must make it in the interests of countries to behave differently. That is, they must restructure the underlying game. Most importantly, they must create incentives for states to participate in a treaty and for parties to comply.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Theoretically and historically informed analysis of an increasingly important legal mechanism — Case studies illustrate practice and purpose of using environmental assessment — Broad coverage of topics including land use, pollution control, habitat protection, and policy making — Was a runner up for the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks' Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship Environmental Assessment is an inherently interdisciplinary mechanism which is concerned with the input and quality of information about the likely effects of development upon the environment. It is a useful tool for examining aspects of the relationship between law, governance, and the regulation of decision making, which have been central to the development of environmental law. In this volume, the procedural mechanism of environmental assessment is analysed. The author argues that, notwithstanding its procedural nature, environmental assessment is highly material to the outcome of a decision. A major focus of this analysis is the enhanced role of the developer in shaping the outcome of a decision by assuming responsibility for providing information on which a decision will be based, in accordance with a broader agenda of expanding the roles and responsibilities of participants in environmental decision making. The author draws upon several contemporary projects as case studies of assessment: a global port, an offshore windfarm, a flood defence strategy, and a recreation centre. In analysing these sites of decision making from a legal perspective, the author touches upon the key determinants of environmental assessment: discretion, the significance of environmental effects, alternative options, and participatory rights. Finally, the volume looks to the future development of environmental assessment: as an avenue for protest, and, alternatively, as a standardized component of international contracts for development.
Название: Environmental Law and Compliance Methods
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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Focuses on the practical tasks required to stay in compliance with U.S. environmental laws
Название: Equity
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Introduces the basic principles of equity, emphasising contemporary views and modern issues, thereby providing students with a guide to key topics — Considers the impact equity has had on the modern legal landscape, and the controversial questions that arise from our dual system of law and equity, helping students to think critically about the subject — The clarity of the language ensures that legal debates in this area are readily accessible to all readers New to this edition — The second edition will be thoroughly updated to include significant Court of Appeal and House of Lords cases, that are material to the legal ideas discussed — Selective references to the key cases and commentary have been incorporated to provide guidance for students wishing to pursue the issues in more detail — Includes footnotes and references to leading cases This second edition of Sarah Worthington's Equity maintains the clear ambitions of the first. It sets out the basic principles of equity, and illustrates them by reference to commercial and domestic examples of their operation. The book comprehensively and succinctly describes the role of equity in creating and developing rights and obligations, remedies and procedures that differ in important ways from those provided by the common law itself. Worthington delivers a complete reworking of the material traditionally described as equity. In doing this, she provides a thorough examination of the fundamental principles underpinning equity's most significant incursions into the modern law of property, contract, tort, and unjust enrichment. In addition, she exposes the possibilities, and the need, for coherent substantive integration of common law and equity. Such integration she perceives as crucial to the continuing success of the modern common law legal system. This book provides an accessible and elementary exploration of equity's place in our modern legal system, whilst also tackling the most taxing and controversial questions which our dual system of law and equity raises. The second edition now includes footnote references to the leading cases in the area. Each chapter also provides a short list of key cases, and a selective biography chosen for its ability to provoke debate about the principal controversies exposed in the chapter. These additions are designed to guide and stimulate students and practitioners in their engagement with the subject.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
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Topics include: — Folk Etymology — Borrowed Words — The Methods of Etymology — Change of Meaning in Language History — The Origins of the Earliest Words and Ancient Roots — The State of English Etymology «Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books attempt to satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually digested like pills: the user is interested in getting well, not in the chemistry of the prescribed medication. Those who send letters to the Editor also want a straight answer without bothering about how «editors» come by their knowledge. Therefore, they fail to realize that etymologies are seldom definitive and that the science of etymology is intensely interesting. Perhaps if someone explained to them that, compared to the drama of words, Hamlet is a light farce, they might develop a more informed attitude toward philological research and become students of historical linguistics rather than gullible consumers of journalists' pap.» This is how Anatoly Liberman begins Etymology for Everyone , the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, a world-renowned etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Etymology for Everyone invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Written by authoritative specialists in the field including the President of the Community Plant Variety Office — Systematic explanation of the Community plant variety system and of the interrelation of plant variety rights with other IP rights, with guidance on the appropriate form of protection — Covers enforcement under the Plant Variety Protection Regulation and under national laws — Includes time-saving references for further information on national, Community and international plant variety protection and enforcement This book is intended as a practical guide to the European Community plant variety protection system under Council Regulation (EC) 2100/94. This system was introduced to enable breeders to protect in Europe new varieties of plants with a tailor-made intellectual property right. The plant breeding industry is an important sector in the European Community with an increasingly competitive atmosphere forcing breeders to protect their products and enforce their IP rights against competitors. This book provides a systematic approach to the Community plant variety protection system. The authors explain how to obtain plant variety protection and how to enforce rights to that protection. They also consider various interpretations of the provisions of the Regulation as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the system. The book covers the world's largest system for plant variety protection, and will be the only comprehensive up-to-date resource on Community Plant Variety Rights.
Название: The European Court of Justice
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- New edition of a leading single volume treatise on the jurisprudence of the ECJ — Discussion of key issues of the Court's jurisdiction, direct effect, remedies, and fundamental freedoms — Analyses the role reserved for the Court under the Union's new Constitutional Treaty The European Court of Justice is a controversial institution. Its supporters see it as having played a central and positive role in shaping a polity which has given its Member States an unprecedented degree of peace, stability and prosperity. To its detractors, it has ignored the Treaties from which it derives its powers in order to pursue an agenda of its own about the political shape of Europe. This book analyses the Court's place in the institutional architecture of the European Union and its contribution to the constitutionalization of the Union and the development of the Union's substantive law. Questions examined include the jurisdiction of the Court; the relationship between Union law and national law; the impact of Union law on national laws concerning remedies; and the protection of fundamental rights. The book also looks at certain key areas of substantive law which have to a large extent been judicially constructed. In the final section, some overarching themes relating to the Court's overall approach are addressed. To what extent has it evolved with the development of the Union? What has been the Court's relationship with the other institutions of the Union and the national courts of the Member States? Should we regard the central role the Court has undoubtedly played in the development of the Union as legitimate? What is the nature of the role reserved for the Court under the Union's Constitutional Treaty, signed by the Member States in Rome on 29 October 2004? The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the development of the European Union and the role of the Court in that process.
Название: European Court of Justice
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- New edition of a leading single volume treatise on the jurisprudence of the ECJ — Discussion of key issues of the Court's jurisdiction, direct effect, remedies, and fundamental freedoms — Analyses the role reserved for the Court under the Union's new Constitutional Treaty
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
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- Charts evolution of EU Employment Strategy and outlines its implications for labour law and industrial relations — Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of European social law and employment policy — Examines aspects of the 'new governance' — such as whether states or the EU should regulate labour and the harmonization versus competition debate Labour law and social policy have long provided an arena within which key debates over the depth and pace of European integration have taken place. Increasingly, as the European Union's employment policy has matured, employment and economic policy discourses have come to displace discourses around social policy and social law, a displacement which has occurred in tandem with a shift from legislative harmonisation to the use of 'soft law' and governance by means of guidelines. This book charts the evolution of the European Employment Strategy and the new forms of governance to which it has given rise, in particular the 'open method of coordination'. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of European social law and employment policy, scrutinizing the law and economics of labour market regulation in the European context and responding to the economic critique of traditional notions of social protection. Through a detailed examination of the legal and economic underpinnings of the European Employment Strategy, the author outlines the implications of this strategy for labour law, social protection and industrial relations within the EU. Using the open method of coordination in the European Employment Strategy as a case study, the book also provides a timely contribution to the growing literature on 'new governance' in the EU. This innovative form of governance has the potential to forge a middle course through the regulatory choices facing the EU: the choice over the appropriate level of regulation in the EU, whether national or supranational; that over the legitimate role for the state in regulating or deregulating the labour market; and ultimately, the choice between centralised harmonization and regulatory competition.
Название: European Tort Law
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Brings together French, German and English tort law, European Community tort law and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights — Gives a concise and up to date account of how the various tort law systems work and how they are intertwined — Examines the relationships between cultures and policies of the different systems This is the first textbook on European tort law. It provides insight into the differences and commonalities between the tort law systems of various European jurisdictions, bringing together national tort law, comparative law, Community law and human rights law. The author shows that European tort law is still a matter of diversity rather than harmony, particularly at policy level. However, he also underlines that Community law and the European Convention on Human Rights are powerful engines for harmonization. For this reason, European tort law is of growing importance for practitioners and academics as European integration progresses. The first part of the book (Systems of Liability ) provides an overview of the state of affairs of the tort law systems of France, Germany and England, and of the European Union. In a concluding chapter the author compares the various rules, cultures and policies of the legal systems and demonstrates the need for a European policy discourse. The second part (Requirements of Liability ) analyzes and compares the requirements for liability in the various tort law systems: protected interests, intention and negligence, breach of statutory duty, stricter rules of liability, causation, damage, damages, and contributory negligence. The final part (Categories of Liability ) also assumes a comparative and supranational point of view. It shows how national and European rules are applied in a number of categories, such as liability of public bodies, liability for defective products, motor vehicles, employees, children, premises and highways, and for environmental damage. The book is written in a concise yet clear style. Brief accounts of numerous cases elucidate the breadth and depth of European tort law.
Название: Exam Skills for Law Students
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Provides practical guidance on the skills and techniques needed to successfully answer essay and problem-style questions so that students can reach their full potential — Includes numerous examples of model answers, both good and bad, with author commentary so that students can understand how, by approaching questions in different ways, they can best demonstrate their knowledge of the law — Emphasises the need to develop skills and techniques throughout law modules including how to gather appropriate materials, and formulate ideas, so that early on students are in the best possible position to produce work that reflects their abilities New to this edition — New coverage on the best techniques students could adopt in writing their coursework, including extended essays and dissertations — There will be an expanded section on answering essay questions — An improved and clearer page layout to aid navigation This book deals with the major hurdles that all students must face: examinations. To overcome this barrier, it is important that the exam process is fully understood by students and that the techniques used by successful examinees are thoroughly mastered. Written in a clear, accessible style, Exam Skills for Law Students demonstrates how good students can do themselves justice in examinations by using the knowledge that they have acquired to full effect. The authors suggest ways in which legal arguments can be marshalled and identify methods by which both essay and problem questions can be tackled. Examples are drawn from the core subjects of contract, criminal law, public law and the law of torts, although techniques illustrated can be applied to many other areas of law. This will be an invaluable aid to any students taking academic law examinations.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
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- Accountability of executive power is highly topical in the wake of the Iraq war, and the Guantanamo Bay detainees — Uniquely approaches the issue of the nature of executive power from a comparative legal perspective — Addresses the question of the correct delimitation of executive power, and how best to hold it politically and legally to account For most of the past two hundred years or more — the grand era of national constitution-making — founding fathers and constitutional scholars alike seem to have focused more sharply on questions of legislative power than they have on executive power. Executive power, by contrast, they worried much less about and sought to delimit less thoroughly. The scope of executive power and its accountability are however endemic problems, which arise within federal and non-federal states. Nor are these issues unique to common law constitutional orders. Problems concerning the nature and delimitation of executive power also arise in civil law jurisdictions and in the European Union. Despite the historical constitutional focus on legislative power, it is executive authority which seems in the early 21st-century to be the more threatening. This book addresses two sets of questions that are under-researched in constitutional scholarship. What is the proper scope of executive authority, how is executive power delimited, and how should it be defined? How is executive authority best held to account, politically and legally? These questions are both descriptive and normative and they are addressed accordingly in each of the chapters by leading public lawyers from a variety of jurisdictions. The book examines executive power in the United Kingdom from a British and from a distinctively Scottish perspective. There are chapters on the four common law jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States; on the four civil law jurisdictions of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain; and on the European Union. This insightful comparative perspective allows themes to be drawn together, and lessons extracted on the nature of executive power and its accountability.
Название: Experts in the Civil Courts
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Comprehensive new guide to the controversial area of expert evidence in civil litigation — An authoritative first port-of-call for civil litigation practitioners, the judiciary, and professionals who act as expert witnesses — Provides detailed commentary to the new procedures under Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules — Contains practical guidance to the key issues that arise in practice, including accreditation, the solicitor/expert relationship, experts' reports and privilege, court management of expert evidence, the single joint expert, and experts' immunity from liability — Also looks at the historical background to expert testimony, and discusses the future development of the law, with reference to developments in the courts and other tribunals — Written by a leading multidisciplinary contributor team, many of whom were involved in the Working Party on the Code of Guidance for Expert Evidence — Edited by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC, a past Chair and Governor of the Expert Witness Institute Expert evidence in the civil justice system remains a controversial area, and one which continues to develop in the context of the changes in civil litigation brought about by the Woolf reforms. In June 2005 the Civil Justice Council's Protocol for the Instruction of Experts was launched to provide guidance to legal professionals and those acting as experts. The recent disciplinary case taken against Sir Roy Meadow by the General Medical Council relating to his expert evidence in a criminal trial — while not directly a civil matter — served to highlight a number of the key problems faced by experts in giving opinion evidence to courts. This new title is a comprehensive guide and reference book for all who are concerned with the quality of expert evidence in the courts. The text focuses on civil practice and looks in detail at the impact of the Civil Procedure Rules on expert evidence. It concentrates on the practical aspects of having experts give evidence, and looks at areas which have caused particular confusion, or on which case law is gradually emerging. Coverage will include the accreditation of experts, the litigant solicitor/expert witness relationship, experts' reports and privilege, court management of expert evidence, the single joint expert, and experts' immunity from liability. The book also includes an illustrative account of one expert's experience in a complex class action relating to a pharmaceutical product. In addition to practical guidance, the book also provides a historical background to expert testimony and discusses the future development of the law, with reference to developments in the courts and other tribunals. Written by a team of leading practitioners, many of whom were members of the Working Party on the Code of Guidance for Expert Evidence, the book is an authoritative first port-of-call for civil litigation practitioners who use experts or come across them regularly in their work, the judiciary, and for experts themselves.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Includes a contribution from Dworkin himself, in which he restates his position and responds to the preceding essays — Expert contributors, cutting edge in their fields of inquiry — Comprehensive coverage, therefore suitable as a companion volume to Dworkin's main works Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays by leading legal theorists and philosophers who have been invited to develop, defend, or critique Ronald Dworkin's controversial and exciting jurisprudence. The volume explores Dworkin's critique of legal positivism, his theory of law as integrity, and his writings on constitutional jurisprudence. Each essay is a cutting-edge contribution to its field of inquiry, the highlights of which include an introduction by Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court, and a concluding essay by Dworkin himself. This final chapter responds to the preceding essays and lays out Dworkin's own vision for the future of jurisprdence over the coming years.
Название: Export Control and Embargo Handbook
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Complete and up-to-date guide to today's complex export and embargo regulation New to this edition — Contains hundreds of updates in regulations since first edition
Название: Family Law and Personal Life
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Offers a fresh examination of the fundamental questions at the heart of family law — how should the state govern people's intimate relationships? Should it encourage a model of 'proper' family life in the interests of stability, or allow people to make their own decisions? — Analyses the impact of human rights on the ideas of family law, showing how the traditional power structures that shaped family life have been shaken by the values of the rights of the child, and the rights of minorities to determine their future. — Presents a thorough theoretical groundwork for the understanding of family law in the twenty-first century, based on respect for personal intimacy How should our most intimate personal relationships be governed in a liberal society? Should the state encourage a particular model of family life, or support individuals in their pursuit of personal happiness? To what extent do people have the right to shape the lives of their offspring? This book examines the questions at the heart of family law, rethinking the ideas that shape our understanding of the family as a social unit, its purpose, and the obligations and rights that belong to family members. The book explores how the governance of personal relationships has depended on the exercise of power, from the traditional assumptions of patriarchy, where the male head of the family enjoyed full control over his dependents and descendents, to the ideology of welfarism, where state institutions protect the interests of the vulnerable at the expense of their close relations. Emerging from these conflicting ideologies comes today's rights-based culture, where traditional expectations for behaviour within a family sit within a new emphasis on the ability of minorities and traditional dependents to determine the shape of their own lives. Against this background of shifting power relations, the book explores the interrelationship between the legal regulation of people's personal lives and the values of friendship, truth, respect and responsibility. In doing this, a variety of controversial issues are examined in the light of those values: including the legal regulation of gay and unmarried heterosexual relationships; freedom of procreation; state supervision over the exercise of parenthood; the role of fault in divorce law; the way parenthood is allocated; the rights and responsibilities of parents to control their children; the place of religion in the family; the rights of separated partners regarding property and of separated parents regarding their children. Throughout, the book offers a new picture of the intimacy at the centre of personal relationships and argues that only by understanding this intimacy, and its role in human happiness, can we arrive at a true framework for respecting, and governing, the personal lives of other people.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2007
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- The new edition of a leading practitioner work on EC competition/antitrust law — A unique insider's view of the subject, it is written entirely by current and former members of DG Competition — A practical reference tool that puts particular emphasis upon how law and policy apply in practice — Forward-looking analysis provides guidance on areas that are still undecided or evolving — Even more dependable and rigorous than the previous edition: the coverage is expanded and enhanced — New chapters on modernization, cartels, state aids, and vehicle distribution agreements, and expanded analysis of mergers — Full analysis of the key substantive, procedural and interpretative changes being introduced during 2004, as well as the latest case-law New to this edition — New chapters on modernization, cartels, state aids, and vehicle distribution agreements, and a more detailed analysis of mergers — Full analysis of the key substantive, procedural and interpretative changes being introduced during 2004, as well as the latest case-law The new edition of this leading work builds upon the success of the first edition by adding new chapters on modernization, cartels, state aids, and motor vehicle distribution agreements, as well as expanding the analysis of mergers. The existing strengths are also reinforced, and the book will be fully up to date with all of the key substantive, procedural and interpretative changes introduced up to autumn 2006, as well as the latest case law. The author team is entirely drawn from current or former members of the EC Commission's Directorate General for Competition, ensuring a uniquely in-depth working knowledge of the legislative regime and its application in practice.
Название: Media Freedom Under the Human Rights Act
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2006
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- Offers comprehensive coverage of major media law topics, including privacy, contempt, copyright, official secrecy and freedom of information, content regulation of broadcasters, and political defamation — Takes a comparative approach to consider the impact of the Human Rights Act on these areas, written by leading experts on the Act — Includes detailed discussion of recent key cases and legislative developments to early 2006 Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the impact of Article 10 ECHR, as received through the Human Rights Act 1998, on the substantive law governing freedom of expression in the media. Fully up to date, the book provides extensive coverage of crucial recent developments in this field; these include: the key cases of Ashworth and Punch in the area of contempt; the ground-breaking privacy decisions in Von Hannover v Germany and Campbell v MGN ; full consideration of theoretical approaches to explicit speech and blasphemy, including a detailed critique of Strasbourg case-law in the area; detailed discussion of the new offence of incitement to religious hatred; the new scheme for content regulation of broadcasting under the Communications Act 2003 in the light of Prolife Alliance ; a full survey of recent domestic and Strasbourg caselaw in the areas of copyright and political defamation, and analysis of the early impact of the Freedom of Information Act. The authors — both leading academics in the field — have drawn on significant comparative decisions to formulate a coherent and provocative critique of the relationship between media law and freedom of expression, and suggested principles which make a significant contribution to the legal discourse surrounding media freedom in the Human Rights Act era. The result is a book which provides a scholarly and theoretically informed analysis of this very topical subject, of interest to those studying at all levels and practising in this area of law.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2007
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- Unique professional negligence focus within financial services — Considers all types of claims against financial services providers from those under FMSA to the more traditional contract and tort cases — Regular updates (one in the first year, two thereafter) ensuring readers are kept up-to-date with the latest developments — Includes legislation from FSMA 2000, secondary legislation from RAO and FPO, handbook rules from COB, ICOB, MCOB New to this edition — Now in loose-leaf format — New chapters on conduct of business rules on mortgages (MCOB) and insurance (ICOB) — Changes to financial promotion regime The new edition of Financial Advice and Financial Products now comes as a looseleaf service. This comprehensive guide covers the legal and regulatory environment in which claims arising in the financial services context are brought and defended. Since 2001 legislative activity in the field of financial regulation has grown considerably and the rate of development in regulation and case law shows no sign of slowing. This exciting new looseleaf text considers the applicable regime including the regulatory framework and statutory claims under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, together with traditional 'professional negligence' claims based on contract and tort against financial advisers, brokers, other intermediaries, and product providers. There are now two new chapters dedicated to the FSA's extension in regulatory powers to include the conduct of mortgage business (MCOB) and general insurance business (ICOB), written by experts from Burges-Salmon Solicitors. In addition, the authors look at the FSA's increasing focus on financial promotion, together with the new Financial Promotion Order 2005 and updated FSA guidance. The text incorporates recent case law (such as Beary v Pall Mall Investments, Seymour v Caroline Ockwell & Co) and the impact of more recent financial scandals, including the continuing fall-out of Equitable Life's collapse, endowment mortgage complaints and 'precipice bonds' or SCARPS. Development in the case law on limitation and causation, and the approach of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to cases within its jurisdiction are also considered. Accompanied by two regular updates per year, this looseleaf volume is an invaluable source of reference to all those in the field of financial services.
