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Acting in matrimonial finance matters requires a precise and focused approach to the preparation of documents and evidence. This toolkit contains over 30 template documents, with guidance on how to tailor each one for different types of cases.

The fifth edition of Button on Taxis completely updates the text to take account of changes to legislation, case law and Guidance since the publication of the fourth edition. Key features of Button on Taxis include: - Proposed new taxi law for Wales - The Court of Appeal position on hackney carriage and private hire licence fees in R (on the application of Rehman) v Wakefield City Council and The Local Government Association [2019] EWCA Civ 2166 [2020] RTR 11 CA - Alterations to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and associated regulations and guidance. - Proposals under the levelling up scheme to move hackney carriage and private hire licensing from district councils to counties and combined authorities.- Supreme Court decision on costs in licensing appeals in Competition and Markets Authority v Flynn Pharma Ltd and Pfizer [2022] UKSC 14 - Pedicab licensing powers in London This new edition provides a timely update to what is acknowledged as an essential handbook for the taxi licensing practitioner. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Licensing online service.

A truly original contribution to the longstanding debate on the difference between socio-economic and political and civil rights, which argues that this traditional differentiation is no longer valid.

This book explores the relationship between copyright law, online anonymity, and creative user-generated content (CUGC). Presenting original empirical findings, the book evaluates the co-existence of copyright law and normative systems regulating a CUGC landscape made up of artists, photographers, and writers, and makes novel recommendations for copyright reform. It takes a multi-jurisdictional approach across Anglo-American and EU legal systems, using the UK, USA, and Germany as representative jurisdictions for legal analysis. Qualitative findings are drawn from creators and communities on Reddit and 4chan.Copyright subsists in much CUGC, but pervasive anonymity makes it difficult for the law to regulate it effectively. Simultaneously, anonymity offers creative benefits in a way that highlights flaws in traditional justifications of copyright. Comparisons between community norms and copyright law identify practical differences but also fundamental compatibilities in terms of ownership expectations. However, the simultaneous existence of legal and normative enforcement mechanisms complicates matters for creators and potential users, with negative implications for creativity and copyright law. While existing reform efforts have made suggestions to create a UGC exception, these overlook and undermine the role of CUGC creators as copyright holders. This can be remedied by the inclusion of supplementary provisions.This valuable resource for researchers and students provides a distinct perspective in framing CUGC creators as copyright holders, examining online anonymity as a pivotal factor influencing regulation.

Introduces readers to the major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.

This book responds to the need to distinguish human creations from those produced by AI.It does so by tracing the human attributes of authorship and inventorship in the requirements for protection and ownership in European copyright and patent laws. Its main contribution lies in exposing shortcomings in how the laws are applied in the UK, Germany, and France. It shows that the human origin of creations is traditionally inferred from their expressive form or technical character. Given the advancements in AI, such inferences are no longer legitimate. What is more, these shortcomings may eventually lead to granting copyright or patent protection where none is lawfully permitted or sufficiently justified.To remedy the situation, this book offers doctrinal solutions such as refining the concepts of authorship and inventorship to better reflect the human creativity underpinnings of copyright and patent laws. It also proposes law reforms addressing the disruptive role of AI, eg making disclosure duties more robust.This book guides authorities, practitioners, and students to better understand the problem of copyright and patents for objects entirely or partly generated by AI. It also advances the ongoing academic and policy debates on AI and intellectual property law.

Looks at interactions between UK public sector officials and researchers/innovators to shed light on barriers to data access and use.

The third volume of the Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy series focuses on one of the most fiercely contested issues in contemporary legal philosophy: the question of the importance of legal reasoning and how to properly engage with it.This book considers legal reasoning from two different angles: it revolves, on the one hand, around debates concerning interpretation and balancing, but it also asks, on the other, whom we ought to entrust with decision-making based on legal reasoning and how this relates to the very concept of law.The book approaches these underlying problems from a variety of perspectives and against the backdrop of different academic traditions, showcasing the rich landscape of critical debates around contemporary legal reasoning.

This book explores accountability from a range of perspectives, crossing traditional disciplinary, thematic, and professional boundaries. It asks fresh questions about accountability and its place and importance in democratic societies. Accountability matters. It matters because it connects the governors with the governed, and for this reason it is a hallmark of democratic governance. And yet, amidst a backdrop of concerns about democratic back-sliding, the rise of populism, the role of algorithmic governance, moral barbarism, and post-truth politics - to mention just a few issues - a number of potentially far-reaching questions of accountability have been asked. It is for exactly this reason that this book explores the concept of accountability from a range of perspectives, crossing traditional disciplinary, thematic, and professional boundaries. It asks fresh questions about accountability and its place and importance in democratic societies.The book considers the questions raised by the shifting architecture of accountability. Whilst some scholars suggest that accountability processes have never been so effective -trumpeting the rise of monitory democracy with its dense array of watchdogs, sleaze-busters, auditors, legislative committees, statutory supports, and investigative mechanisms - others express concern about the risk of 'overloads', 'gaps', and 'traps'. This has led to a focus on fuzzy accountability and diagonal accountability, pointing to increasing conceptual confusion. Bringing together world-leading scholars and former politicians and public servants, the book cuts through this confusion and provides the reader with the answers to the most debated issues, including rarely discussed 'pathologies of accountability', post-human governance, and a novel focus on balance and proportionality.

This book provides the first comprehensive appraisal of the paradigm shift towards mandatory sustainability requirements in EU public procurement law.Traditionally, EU public procurement law focused on 'how to buy', dictating procedural rules so that public buyers in the Member States did not discriminate against suppliers and service providers from other Member States. Mandatory green and social requirements mean that, with a view to achieving sustainable development goals and mitigating climate change, the EU will limit this discretionary power for public buyers, pushing them to acquire more sustainable goods and services.Based on legal analysis informed by economic perspectives, the book aims to contribute to an understanding and critical discussion of the EU legislator's move towards regulating 'what to buy'. The book discusses the role of the Public Procurement Directives in relation to this paradigm shift, as well as various other sectoral legislative instruments that have been revamped or newly introduced in light of the European Green Deal.The paradigm shift is analysed from different perspectives, including subsidiarity, alternative regulation, economics and public purchasing. The book includes novel sectoral studies on transport, food, clothing, and construction, discussing how change is taking place and what its major challenges are for the future. Chapters on Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and more, offer case studies of Member States that have already introduced mandatory requirements and highlight lessons learnt.This is an essential book for professionals working with public procurement law in academia and practice, and to those engaged in achieving public policy objectives in light of climate change and social injustice.

"Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business."

Originally published in 1922, Juvenile Delinquency was written while the author was Director of the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Research. He believed that juvenile delinquency could be prevented and therefore a large part of adult criminality could be eradicated.

Black Dogs features over 50 stunning portraits of photographer Fred Levy’s Canine Noir series alongside heartwarming profiles about each dog and their loving companionship.

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking riskBanks in America are private institutions with private shareholders, boards of directors, profit motives, customers, and competitors. And yet the public plays a key role in deciding what risks are taken as well as how, when, and to what end. Public-private negotiations over financial governance has evolved into an essential ecosystem of banking risk management. In Private Finance, Public Power, Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta offer a new history of finance and public policy in the United States by examining the idiosyncratic way the nation manages financial risk across the public-private divide. Covering two centuries, from the founding of the Republic to the early 1980s, Conti-Brown and Vanatta describe the often-contested, sometimes chaotic, engagement of bankers, politicians, bureaucrats, and others in the overlapping spaces of the public-private system of bank supervision. Conti-Brown and Vanatta trace the different supervisory frameworks that evolved over time, from the imposition of private liability on bank shareholders to the development of the central bank to the creation of federal deposit insurance. Negotiations took place at federal and state levels, but, over time, the federal government assumed most of the responsibility for managing financial risk. Moreover, federal supervisory officials began to undertake more varied tasks, including monitoring racial discrimination and managing financial concentration. Conti-Brown and Vanatta introduce a diverse cast of characters-bankers, politicians, bureaucrats, and others-and show how they navigated two hundred years of financial panics, scandals, and crises to build the system that structures modern America's banking system.

This volume provides a historical and comparative study of how and by whom the estates of deceased persons are administered, drawing upon the legal traditions of Europe and beyond. The authors examine a representative sample of countries, and offer an overall assessment of the different systems of estate administration.

Drawing on original French, German, and English publications, Crime and Civilization explores the rise of data-based criminology as an intellectual field in continental Europe in the early nineteenth century, spanning from Enlightenment philosophers to the general rise of science in society.

On Theocratic Criminal Law explores the roots and structures of the criminal law system of the world's most prominent constitutional theocracy, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The book offers a critical analysis of the way criminal law functions as the centrepiece of this theocratic mode of political domination.

"It's an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue." - Publishers Weekly Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system-from foster care to incarceration-that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families. Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where she was committed to helping keep children safe. In the book, she walks alongside her close friends and even her family as they navigate the system, while sharing her own reckoning with the requirements of her job and her role in the systemic harm. Through poignant narratives and introspection, readers witness the harrowing effects of a well-intentioned workforce that has lost its way, demonstrating how separations are often not in a child's best interests. With a renewed commitment to strengthening families in her role as activist, Pryce invites the child welfare workforce to embark on a journey of self-reflection and radical growth. At once a framework for transforming child protective services and an intimate, stunning first-hand account of the system as it currently operates, Broken takes everyday scenarios as its focus rather than extreme child welfare cases, challenging readers to critically examine their own mindsets and biases in order to reimagine how we help families in need.

This 2-volume set on EU landmark cases discusses the most iconic judgments developed by the European Court of Justice since 1957.The European Court of Justice has played a fundamental role in the construction of the European Union in the past 70 years. Its 'landmark' decisions have often been controversial; yet no-one could deny that they have been crucial in 'constituting' the Union legal order as we find it today. From Van Gend en Loos and Costa v ENEL to Cassis de Dijon and Kadi, Landmark Cases in EU Law explores the most important and well-known cases in two volumes. Volume 2 introduces the 'substantive cases' that have shaped the Union's internal market and internal or external policies. Each case is placed in its historical and doctrinal context, and each chapter presents the history of its reception by the Court and academia.

This two-volume work on EU landmark cases discusses the most iconic judgments developed by the European Court of Justice since 1957.It considers the way in which The European Court of Justice has played a fundamental role in the construction of the European Union in the past 70 years. Its 'landmark' decisions have often been controversial yet no-one could deny that they have been crucial in 'constituting' the Union legal order as we find it today.From Van Gend en Loos and Costa v ENEL to Cassis de Dijon and Kadi, Landmark Cases in EU Law explores the most important and well-known cases in two volumes. Volume 1 explores the 'constitutional cases' that have come to define the legal nature and competences of the Union.

This covers mandatory minimum Level 1 training for officers and key ratings under Regulation V/1, paragraph 1.2 of STCW-95: safety and pollution-prevention, layouts of tankers, types of cargo, their hazards and handling equipment, and operational sequence and terminology.

Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a rock-solid reputation for accuracy, reliability, and authority, they remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a careful selection of up-to-date legislation for exams and course use.

Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With arock-solid reputation for accuracy, reliability, and authority, they remain first-choice for students and lecturers, providing a carefulselection of all the up-to-date legislation needed for exams and course use.

Die Dissertation untersucht die Entwicklung des Verantwortungseigentums insbesondere anhand der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung unter Ernst Abbe. Der Begriff des Verantwortungseigentums wird seit einigen Jahren in der rechtspolitischen Debatte zu alternativen Unternehmens- und Eigentumsformen diskutiert. Dabei wird die Einführung einer eigenen Gesellschaftsform gefordert. Die Dissertation widmet sich diesen Forderungen und den Entwicklungen des Verantwortungseigentums anhand der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung und ihrer Stiftungsbetriebe Zeiss und Schott.Dort wurde bereits Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts eine Form dessen, was Jurist:innen heute unter Verantwortungseigentum verstehen, kautelar-juristisch eingeführt und geprägt. Ziel und Zweck der Arbeit war es, die Überschneidungen, Parallelen und Unterschiede der Rechtssubjekte zu untersuchen und der Frage auf den Grund zu gehen, ob das Verantwortungseigentum einer längeren Rechtstradition folgt oder eine rein zeitgenössische Idee ist.