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Digital Inheritance in the United Kingdom
Harbinja, Edina (2017-11-21)This article is assessing the UK's approach to digital inheritance and digital assets. It analyses the state of play and critically looks into the reform proposal initiated by the Law Commission in the area of law of wills. ... -
Discounting Fiscal Privilege - A More Charitable Solution to the Public Benefit Question : Lord MacDermott's Dissent in Oppenheim v Tobacco Securities Trust Co. Ltd [1951] AC 297
Geach, Neal; Dugdale, Tara (Wildy, Simmons and Hill, 2012) -
Dissenting Judgments in the Law
Geach, Neal; Monaghan, Christopher; Law; Office of the Vice-Chancellor; Centre for Future Societies Research; Centre for Learning, Access and Student Success (Wildy, Simmons and Hill, 2012)In this text an expert law team of contributors re-examine nineteen cases deriving from differing areas of law. These each potentially could have influenced how law developed, to drastically varied directions. These cases ... -
Do Corporations Have an Immortal Part? The Need to Prove Damage in Corporate Libel : Baroness Hale's Dissent in Jameel v Wall Street Journal Sprl [2006] UKHL 44
Geach, Neal (Wildy, Simmons and Hill, 2012)Argues that the opinion of Baroness Hale in the case of Jameel v Wall Street Journal Sprl [2006] UKHL 44 should have prevailed in the case so that corporations have to prove special damage, or the likelihood of it occurring, ... -
Do people with intellectual disabilities understand their prescription medication? A scoping review
Smith, Megan; Adams, Danielle; Carr, Claudia; Mengoni, Silvana (2019-11-01)Background: People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to experience poor health than the general population and are frequently prescribed multiple medications. Therefore, it is important that people with ... -
Does same-sex marriage show Church and state cannot sing from the same hymn sheet?
Bourne, Craig; Caddick Bourne, Emily (University of Hertfordshire, 2013)One important conflict between Church and state in which there is much contemporary interest centres on same-sex marriage. More and more states are reforming marriage law to allow for same-sex marriage in the secular ... -
Does the EU Data Protection Regime Protect Post-Mortem Privacy and What Could Be the Potential Alternatives?
Harbinja, Edina (2013)This article aims to shed some light on post-mortem privacy, a phenomenon rather neglected in the legal literature. Acknowledging the quite controversial nature of the phenomenon and certain policy and legal arguments pro ... -
The Early Ground Offensives in Internet Governance
Rogers, Kevin M. (2007-01)This article highlights the political and legal implications of the Internet governance debate. -
Editorial: BILETA 2016 conference special issue
Harbinja, Edina (2017) -
Editorial: European Journal of Law and Technology BILETA Special Issue 2021
Romero Moreno, Felipe; Bosher, Hayleigh (2021-06-30)This collection of papers from the BILETA 2020 conference addresses exciting new developments in both law and technology, from smart homes and cities to artificial intelligence and copyright laws looking to regulate online ... -
Editorial: European Journal of Law and Technology BILETA Special Issue 2023
GH Griffin, James; Romero Moreno, Felipe (2023-05-15)It is with great pleasure that we write this introduction to the EJLT BILETA special issue for 2023.Dr Xiaochen Mu, of Nottingham Ningbo, China, has provided a paper looking at virtual property. Xiaochen proposes a new ... -
Electronic and mobile commerce law : an analysis of trade, finance, media and cybercrime in the digital age
Wild, C.; Weinstein, S.; MacEwan, N.; Geach, N. (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2011)This text is unique in bringing together the many disparate aspects of what is variously called internet law, cyber law or electronic commerce ('e-commerce') law. Included is the law relating to online contracts and payment ... -
Enhancing student performance and employability through the use of authentic assessment techniques in extra and co-curricular activities (ECCAs)
Berger, Dan; Wild, Charles (2017-10-02)The paper advocates the use of authentic assessment techniques, delivered in extra and co-curricular activities (ECCAs), to augment and improve student performance on academic law degree programmes. A combination of formative ... -
Equality and diversity in the work of the Sentencing Council
Chen, Qi; Vuk, Mateja; Kuppuswamy, Chamundeeswari; Kirsh, Diana (The Sentencing Council for England and Wales, 2023-01-10)This report is commissioned by the Sentencing Council for England and Wales. It examines whether the guidelines published by the Council have the potential to cause disparities in sentencing, and whether the guideline ... -
Ex ante governance controls on non-executive director self-interest: empirical evidence on multiple directorships 2006-2010 in the UK
Gibbs, David (2016-09-01)Formal independence of non-executive directors should not be used as a mask for a potential problem of self-interest, as it can occur in many forms. While laws regulate more severe forms of self-interest, little attention ... -
Fatalism and the Future
Bourne, Craig (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011-04) -
Fictional Branching Time?
Bourne, Craig; Caddick Bourne, Emily (Springer Nature, 2013)Some fictions seem to involve branching time, where one time-series ‘splits’ into two, or two time-series ‘fuse’ into one. We provide a new framework for thinking about these fictional representations: not as representations ... -
Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace and the Coroner’s and Justice Act 2009
Johnson, Maureen (2010)The focus of this paper is pornography. More specifically anti pornography law in the UK and more specifically still, law that prohibits pornographic images of children. For many people, this is a not a controversial area. ... -
The Future of Assisted Dying in the UK
Carr, Claudia (2015-07-14)