Current Legal Problems
Published on 1. December 1993
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-0-19-825870-4 (ISBN)
Description
Containing papers from the "Current Legal Problems" lecture series and a number of other seminar papers presented at University College, London, this book features: two essays on prisons; an essay on fraud and one on pensions; the appointment of judges and the secrecy surrounding judicial activity are dealt with in further papers; EC competition law is examined; two papers on legal theory, one on child welfare, one on contract and restitution; one on treaties and one on public enquiries round off the collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-825870-4 (9780198258704)
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Content
Unpacking the judges, Robert Stevens; The underside of the law - a judicial review and the prison disciplinary system, Martin Loughlin; assisted reproduction and the welfare of the child, Gillian Douglas; trusting in law - legal and moral concepts of trust, Roger Cotterrell; social security for occupational pensions - is the Law of Trusts superannuated?, John Mesher; restitutionary damages for breach of contract and the theory of efficient breach - some reflections, Richard O'Dair; the crime of fraud in the uncodified civil law, Peter Stein; the lack of economic analysis in the decisions on competition of the commission of the European Communities - "Tetra Pak II", Valentine Korah; open justice - publicity and the judicial process, James Michael; public enquiries, Sir Louis Blom-Cooper; why the "critical theorists" miss the point of the human face of law, Stephen Guest; rehabilitation in prisons - a study of Grendon Underwood, Elaine Genders and Elaine Player; the significance of the registration or non-registration of an international agreement in determining whether or not it is a treaty, D.N. Hutchinson.