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Poisons and Poisonings: Death by Stealth - Paperback

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by Tony Hargreaves (Author)Today, there may well be more poisons available to the individual than ever before, but there are also advances in medical examination and forensic analysis that increase the likelihood of the poisoner being caught. This book will examine poisons, both natural and man-made menaces, and cases based on a particular poison as well as information about how forensic analysis is conducted. Appealing to scientists and non-scientists alike, this enthralling book will entert...

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Drafting the Irish Free State Constitution - Paperback

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by Laura Cahillane (Author)Drafting the Irish Free State Constitution challenges the myths surrounding the Irish Free Constitution by analysing the document in its proper historical context, by looking at how the Constitution was drafted and elucidating the true nature of the document. It examines the reasons why the Constitution did not function as anticipated and investigates whether the failures of the document can be attributed to errors of judgement in the drafting process or to subseque...

Understanding Nuclear Regulations - Hardcover

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by Michael Cash (Author)Interpreting nuclear regulations for nuclear power plants is a difficult and complex task. There is no single book that describes a proper method for this purpose, until now. This book describes a complete process for regulatory interpretation and demonstrates its application. This book is not meant as a practice guide for lawyers. This book is intended for individuals with technical backgrounds who want to learn a structured means of interpreting nuclear laws and reg...

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by Alexander MacDonald (Author)Involving over a hundred defendants, the Nuremberg Trials took place between 1945 and 1945 and broke new ground. Twenty-one Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity--and with having a common plan or conspiracy to commit those crimes. It was the first time judges and members of the judiciary had been charged with enforcing immoral laws. Doctors too stood in the dock for the many hideous medical experiments condu...

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by John Emsley (Author)How can a plant as beautiful as the foxglove be so deadly and yet so useful to treat heart disease? What will kill a rat may also kill a human so it is not, necessarily, surprising to find that murderers have resorted to rat poison but what happens when the rat poison doesn't work? Eight years after the highly acclaimed Molecules of Murder, John Emsley is again applying his winning formula to writing a book about crimes of murder and attempted murder carried out with na...

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by John Emsley (Author)How can a plant as beautiful as the foxglove be so deadly and yet for more than a century be used to treat heart disease? The same is true of other naturally occurring molecules as will be revealed in these two books from award-winning author and chemist, John Emsley. Molecules of Murder and More Molecules of Murder deal with potential poisons from man-made and natural sources. Both books investigate the crimes committed with them, not from the point of view of the murd...

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Horse Who Came to Dinner: The First Criminal Case of Food Fraud - Paperback

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by Glenn Taylor (Author)Science is at the forefront of uncovering some of the century's biggest food scams and this book details food fraud over many years giving unique insights from an enforcement point of view. Following Horse-gate, the substitution of beef with horse, the enforcement world has changed. There is now a team focussing on food fraud and a desire to put the perpetrators behind bars. This book will be timely, bringing the literature right up to date, and aimed at food professio...

Critical Jurisprudence: The Political Philosophy of Justice - Paperback

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by Costas Douzinas (Author), Adam Gearey (Author)Jurisprudence is the prudence of jus, law's consciousness and conscience. Throughout history, when thinkers wanted to contemplate the organisation of society or the relationship between authority and the subject, they turned to law. All great philosophers, from Plato to Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Weber had either studied the law or had a deep understanding of legal operations. But jurisprudence is also the conscience of law, the exploration ...

The Constitution of Vietnam: A Contextual Analysis - Paperback

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by Mark Sidel (Author)This new book examines constitutional debate and development in one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing societies in Asia, and will be of use to scholars and students of comparative law, comparative constitutional law and Asian law, and practitioners interested in Asia or in Vietnam. The book discusses and analyses the historical development, principles, doctrines and debates which comprise and shape Vietnamese constitutional law today, during a time of reform and d...

Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy - Paperback

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by Andreas Von Hirsch (Editor), Andrew J. Ashworth (Editor), Julian Roberts (Editor)This new, third edition of Principled Sentencing offers students of law, legal philosophy, criminology and criminal justice a wide-ranging selection of the leading scholarship on contemporary sentencing. The volume offers readers critical readings relating to the key moral, philosophical and policy issues in sentencing today. It contains many new readings on subjects that have recently emerged and which have c...

The Constitution of Finland: A Contextual Analysis - Paperback

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by Jaakko Husa (Author)This book deals with the living Constitution of Finland, with an emphasis on constitutional history, culture, and practice. 'Culture' here refers to the cognitive long-term social or mental structure which makes it possible for politicians, civil servants, judges, and lawyers to grasp the constitutional environment in which they exist. Finland is a small modern, democratic Nordic country with a politically stable welfare system and a constitutional history dating back t...

An Introduction to the Law of the United Nations - Paperback

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by Robert Kolb (Author)This work aims to fill a gap in the existing legal literature by presenting a compact, concise but nevertheless panoramic view of the law of the United Nations. Today the organisation is at the centre of all multilateral international relations and impossible to avoid. And of course the UN Charter is a foundational document without which modern international law cannot be properly understood. In spite of its importance, this pre-eminent world political organisation is p...

Scottish Contract Law Essentials - Paperback

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by Tikus Little (Author)The law of contract forms the basis of our civil society. Without the law of contract we could not buy food, clothing or a place to live, nor could we book holidays, run a business or manage a football club. But contract law is complex and intricate, and disputes over contracts have led to a wealth of court cases over the years. This updated third edition gives you a clear and concise guide to the basics of the law of contract as it pertains to Scotland, from what a co...

Do You Need a California Living Trust? - Paperback

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by Susanne Lee Jenkins (Author)People don't plan because of lack of knowledge, procrastination, and fear. Basically, we don't want to think about this topic. This book explains what you need to know about estate planning concepts and documents in order to make an informed decision about whether you need a Living Revocable Trust. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.27 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: July 27, 2006

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Law and the Idea of Liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the Present - Hardcover

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by Peter Crooks (Editor), Thomas Mohr (Editor)Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive, and unjust rule--in a word, on tyranny. The fame of Magna Carta spread as England, and later Britain, came to girdle the globe in its power. This volume is the first to examine the importance of Ireland in the story of Magna Carta's dissemination. Four centuries before Magna Carta crossed th...

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by Harsha Walia (Author), Andrea Smith (Foreword by)"Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America's most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. ...

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A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity ACT 2005: Putting the Principles of the ACT Into Practice - Paperback

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by Matthew Graham (Author), Jakki Cowley (Author), Alex Ruck Ruck Keene (Foreword by)This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers. Informative and accessible, it provides a clear depiction of the ethos behind the Act and offers instruction for its effective, lawful and person-centred application. This practical guide describes how to assess capacity and what a good assessment of capacity shou...

Family Law, Gender and the State: Text, Cases and Materials - Paperback

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by Alison Diduck (Author), Felicity Kaganas (Author)The third edition of this work on family law, comprising text, cases and materials, provides not only an explication of legal principle but also explores, primarily from a feminist perspective, some of the assumptions about, and constructions of, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture that underlie the law. It examines the ideology of the family and, in particular, the role of the law in contributing to and reproducing that ideology. ...

The Constitutional Systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Contextual Analysis - Paperback

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by Derek O'Brien (Author)The Commonwealth Caribbean comprises a group of countries (mainly islands) lying in an arc between Florida in the north and Venezuela in the south. Varying widely in terms of their size, population, ethnic composition and economic wealth, these countries are, nevertheless, linked by their shared experience of colonial rule under the British Empire and their decision, upon attaining independence, to adopt a constitutional system of government based on the so-called 'We...

The Law and Governance of Mining and Minerals: A Global Perspective - Hardcover

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by Ana Elizabeth Bastida (Author)This book explores a disciplinary matrix for the study of the law and governance concerning mining and minerals from a global perspective. The book considers the key challenges of achieving the goals of Agenda 2030 and the transition to low-carbon circular economies. The perspective encompasses the multi-faceted and highly complex interaction of multiple fields of international law and policy, soft law and standards, domestic laws and regulations as well as lo...

Law in a Complex State: Complexity in the Law and Structure of Welfare - Paperback

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by Neville Harris (Author)Approximately half of the total UK population are in receipt of one or more welfare benefits, giving rise to the largest single area of government expenditure. The law and structures of social security are highly complex, made more so by constant adjustments as government pursues its often conflicting economic, political and social policy objectives. This complexity is highly problematic. It contributes to errors in decision-making and to increased administrative cos...

Free Country: Selected Lectures and Talks - Hardcover

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by Sydney Kentridge (Author)For decades Sydney Kentridge QC has been admired as a brilliant advocate, an outstanding lawyer and, during the apartheid years in South Africa, a courageous defender of the individual against an oppressive state. His advocacy at the inquest of Steve Biko came to the attention of a wider audience when he was portrayed on stage and screen by Albert Finney. He has since pursued a second, equally celebrated career as a barrister in England. In 1999 he was knighted 'fo...

Blackstone and His Commentaries: Biography, Law, History - Paperback

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by Wilfrid Prest (Editor)Among the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) is currently attracting renewed scholarly interest. Whilst the Commentaries no longer dominate legal education, they continue to be regularly cited in superior courts throughout the common law world, besides providing a remarkably comprehensive account of public and private law in England on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. The...

Discrimination as Stigma: A Theory of Anti-discrimination Law - Hardcover

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by Iyiola Solanke (Author)This monograph reconceptualises discrimination law as fundamentally concerned with stigma. Using sociological and socio-psychological theories of stigma, the author presents an 'anti-stigma principle', promoting it as a method to determine the scope of legal protection from discrimination. The anti-stigma principle recognises the role of institutional and individual action in the perpetuation of discrimination. Setting discrimination law within the field of public he...

Lawyers' Ethics and Professional Responsibility - Paperback

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by Andrew Boon (Author)This book aims to produce lawyers who can debate, criticise and change professional ethics as well as understand their underlying rationale. Written by the author of the leading work on the subject, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales, this book is aimed at the undergraduate or postgraduate student taking a half or full course in the subject. The book is divided into four parts dealing with the professional and regulatory framework for delivering lega...

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Becoming British: UK Citizenship Examined - Paperback

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by Thom Brooks (Author)Migration to the United Kingdom receives widespread attention, but less attention is paid to the major increase in the number of people becoming British citizens. UK citizenship has undergone substantial changes in recent decades and a clear up-to-date examination of what UK citizenship actually means, who has access to it and on what terms, is long overdue.Thom Brooks is Professor of Law and Government at Durham University, and one of the United Kingdom's leading exper...

On Global Citizenship: James Tully in Dialogue - Paperback

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by James Tully (Author), David Owen (Editor), Tony Laden (Editor)In his lead essay, Tully applies his distinctive philosophy to the global field of citizenship. The second part of the book contains responses from influential interlocutors including Bonnie Honig and Marc Stears, David Owen and Adam Dunn, Aletta Norval, Antony Laden, and Duncan Bell. These provide a commentary not just on the ideas contained in this volume, but on Tully's approach to political philosophy more generally, thus ma...

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A Judgment Too Far: Judicial Activism and the Constitution - Paperback

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by David Gwynn Morgan (Author)Should national policy be made via the courts rather than by politicians? The author argues that trends towards using the courts as a means of deciding controversial policy issues is fundamentally undemocratic. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: January 31, 2002

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by Charles Barrow (Author)This book provides a clear, comprehensive and critical account of the industrial relations law that governs the relationship between workers, trade unions, and employers. It aids in understanding the contemporary framework and functioning of industrial relations law.Author BiographyCharles Burrow Senior Lecturer in Law, University of North London Number of Pages: 448 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 08, 2005

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory - Paperback

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by Ian Ward (Author)Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucault and Dworkin. At the same time, it impresses the interdisciplinary nature of critical legal thought, introducing the reader to the philosophy, the economics and the politics of...

Comparative Law in a Changing World - Paperback

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by Peter de Cruz (Author)Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the legal approach to key areas of law within different legal systems, this book offers a blueprint for comparative legal study by evaluating the current epistemological debate on comparative law and comparative legal research methods. Substantive law, the law of obligations, commercial and corporate law within the major legal systems of the world are all examined and compared. While France and Germany are generall...

Interpreters and the Legal Process - Paperback

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by Joan Colin (Author), Ruth Morris (Author)Interpreters and the Legal Process is intended for people interested in language, communication, interpreting and translation as they affect legal matters - including for interpreters and legal personnel. The book provides explanations and guidance to law practitioners, administrators and interpreters to help them cope effectively in a range of legal settings. While focusing on England and Wales, it provides examples of international good practice a...