Hart Publishing imprint: 910 books

by Veronika Fikfak, Hayley Hooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

The invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Coalition Government's failure to win parliamentary approval for armed intervention in Syria in 2013, mark a period of increased scrutiny of the process by which the UK engages in armed conflict. For much of the media and civil society there now exists a constitutional...

Lord Kilmuir

A Vignette

by Neil Duxbury
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

This short book examines the career and achievements of Lord Kilmuir (David Maxwell Fyfe), a British politician and former Lord Chancellor who is mainly remembered for some poor and unpopular decisions but who nevertheless made a considerable mark on twentieth-century legal development. After the...

Protecting Personal Information

The Right to Privacy Reconsidered

by Andrea Monti, Professor Raymond Wacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019

The concept of privacy has long been confused and incoherent. The right to privacy has been applied promiscuously to an alarmingly wide-ranging assortment of issues including free speech, political consent, abortion, contraception, sexual preference, noise, discrimination, and pornography. The conventional...

Previous Convictions at Sentencing

Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldestquestions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence? Although there is an extensive literature on the definition and use of criminal history information,...

Predictive Sentencing

Normative and Empirical Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019

Predictive Sentencing addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices. Predictive sentencing has become so deeply ingrained in Western criminal justice decision-making that despite early ethical discussions about selective incapacitation, it currently attracts little critique....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017

In recent years, an increasing number of clients and third parties have filed claims against banks such as for mis-selling financial products, poor financial advice, insufficient disclosure of and warning about financial risks. The scope of a bank's duty of care seems to expand, not only to include...
by Dr Richard Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

Modern international law is widely understood as an autonomous system of binding legal rules. Nevertheless, this claim to autonomy is far from uncontroversial. International lawyers have faced recurrent scepticism as to both the reality and efficacy of the object of their study and practice. For the...
by Dr James Plunkett
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

This book aims to provide a detailed analysis and overview of the duty of care enquiry, drawing on both academic analyses and judicial experience in leading common law systems. A new structure through which duty problems can be analysed is also proposed. It is hoped that the book provides some fresh insights and clarity of the concept to the reader.
by Dr David McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014

Competition is recognised as a key driver of growth and innovation. Competition ensures that businesses continually improve their goods and services whilst striving to reduce their costs. Anti-competitive conduct by businesses, such as price-fixing, causes harm to the economy, to other businesses...

Carter v Boehm and Pre-Contractual Duties in Insurance Law

A Global Perspective after 250 Years

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018

Revisiting Carter v Boehm, the collected papers in this book are intended as a catalyst for rethinking the pre-contractual duties in insurance law and the related principle of utmost good faith at a critical time for insurance law. In so doing, it endeavours to provide insurance law students, academics,...

Human Rights Acts

The Mechanisms Compared

by Kris Gledhill
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through mechanisms such as strong interpretive obligations, quasi-tort actions and obligations on legislatures to consider whether statutes are felt to breach human rights obligations....

The Quistclose Trust

Critical Essays

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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2004

The so-called Quistclose trust probably represents the single most important application of equitable principles in commercial life. (Lord Millett in the foreword to this book). The decision of the House of Lords in Twinsectra v Yardley has refocused attention on the Quistclose trust. Although accepted...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019

The EU public procurement regime has recently undergone an overhaul and now allows Member States and their contracting authorities to pursue strategic goals via public procurement, including environmental and social objectives. The extent to which such interests may be accommodated in the procurement...

Protecting Vulnerable Groups

The European Human Rights Framework

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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

The concept of vulnerability has not been unequivocally interpreted either in regional or in universal international legal instruments. This book analyses the work of the EU and the Council of Europe in ascertaining a clear framework or a set of criteria suitable to determine those who should be considered...
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