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Written by specialist Barrister Hugo Lodge, it will guide you on how to comply with sanctions regimes and what to consider when faced with a potential sanctions breach. The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 is considered in detail as well as recent guidance from the courts.

This book examines the impact of artificial intelligence on competition and antitrust in today's global digital economy. It scrutinizes the economic and legal ramifications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), addressing the challenges it presents to competition and the law.Beginning with an analysis of AI's developments across various economic sectors, the book highlights the need for updated legislation. It focuses on the digital economy, emphasizing digital platforms' role in shaping competition. Econometric investigations and a novel index assess competition's influence on foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. Comparing competition practices across jurisdictions like the EU, US, Germany, and China, the book uncovers commonalities and differences in competition law principles. It also explores various theories on competition and competition law, seeking convergence or divergence.This book is an essential resource for scholars, legal professionals, policymakers, and anyone seeking a better understanding of how AI is reshaping competition and antitrust in the digital age.

Taxwise II will continue to assist tax students with their revision for exams and practitioners who rely on the worked examples and explanations in advising their clients. In particular the book covers IHT, taxation of trusts and taxation of estates.

The first part of this two-volume set is a highly practical text on how to best approach real-life computations. Coverage includes IT, NIC, Corporation Tax, CGT, Stamp Taxes and VAT. Useful guidance tools

'Can a planet have legal rights? Could it be defended in a court of law?' A revolution is taking place. Around the world, ordinary people are turning to courts seeking justice for environmental damage. At the forefront of this movement, pioneering barrister Monica Feria-Tinta advocates not only for the people fighting for their homes and livelihoods, but also for those who have no voice: for rivers, forests and endangered species. In A Barrister for the Earth, Monica takes us behind the scenes of ten real cases - as she argues against the destruction of cloud forests in the world's first Rights of Nature case, to holding Sovereign states to account for inaction in addressing climate change in a landmark win for the Torres Strait Islanders. Each of these hopeful stories are landmarks signalling that we are at an important juncture, in which the law can be a powerful tool for the lasting change that we need.

This book offers a sophisticated and yet fully accessible account of modern lawmaking by appellate courts. It highlights the many ways in which the current approach to this important societal task is incompatible with the practices and procedures that have remained in place from an earlier era.

The first comprehensive analysis of domestic and international law defining and prohibiting torture and other forms of ill-treatment, this groundbreaking work reviews the law on torture in countries around the world. It considers how international law governs the use of force by police against suspects held in custody and during protests, and the practice and outlawing of torture both in peacetime and during armed conflict. The analysis also includes the application of universal jurisdiction, which is used in the attempt to prosecute and punish torture committed anywhere in the world. The application and execution of the death penalty are also discussed in detail.

A bad incident or frivolous lawsuit--even if you're ultimately exonerated--can result in the kind of exorbitant legal fees and devastating publicity that destroys innovative and disruptive platforms like yours.In Bulletproof Your Marketplace, veteran technology lawyer and trusted platform business advisor Jeremy Gottschalk lays out effective ways to identify, predict, prevent, and respond to the risks that come with launching, operating, and scaling marketplaces and digital platforms.

Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change.

This book argues that the frequent use of unilateral acts by the executive, exacerbated in times of emergency, can lead to a process of serious democratic erosion. It holds that the unlimited expansion of unilateral action is incompatible with the principle of separation of powers and the basic elements of a constitutional democracy.

This book comprises an in-depth ethnographic study of daily life in two local Danish probation offices. It explores the interactions between probation officers and citizens on probation, assessing the potential for manual-based or 'scripted' rehabilitative interventions to inspire participatory citizenship among disenfranchised clients.

This book will be of value to students and researchers in the fields of international law, international investment law, international relations, and political science. It will also be of particular interest to students and researchers interested in Asia because it examines the impact of international treaties on governance in Asia.