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Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic
This is a more practical than theoretical book about the relationship between public health and human rights in HIV/AIDS. Using a human rights impact assessment method, the authors provide a critical evaluation of public health policies on many troublesome issues like testing, partner notification, isolation, and criminalization.
Author:
Larry O. Gostin & Zita Lazzarini,
Jose Ayala Lasso & Peter Piot
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195114423
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price: $110.95
Online Price: $97.08
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Services and Free Movement in EU Law
EU services law is an emerging area of scholarship. This book contributes to the analysis and the development of the right to provide services. It is authoritative and represents different views on many of the pressing problems of the area.
Author:
Mads Andenas & Wulf-Henning Roth,
Lord Slynn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198299387
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price: $404.95
Online Price: $354.33
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Seafarers' Rights
'Seafarers' Rights' provides the reader with a systematic analysis of the rights of seafarers in the context of the international shipping industry, showing how they are made up of a combination of national and international laws, drawn from a number of sources including maritime law, labour law and international human rights law.
Author:
Deirde Fitzpatrick & Michael Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199277520
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price: $230.00
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Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights
Offers coverage of the practice and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. This book provides guidance on the Court procedure and includes a concise analysis of the substantive law of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Author:
Philip Leach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199275281
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $290.00
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The Supreme Court in Conference
In public, Supreme Court Justices are not known for their candor while ruling upon a case. In private, however, a few days after hearing oral arguments, before deciding upon the case, the Justices openly discuss their views in what is known as the "Conference." Here, for the first time, are the transcriptions of those conference notes-taken by the Justices themselves-to more than two hundred landmark cases from 1945 to 1985, including such landmark decisions on civil rights, abortion, privacy, and Presidential power. The Supreme Court in Conference is the first book to presents the notes to the conference meetings-so private that only the Justices are present-with annotations and introductions by Del Dickson. Two lengthy essays on the conference notes put them into perspective and draw out the some of the patterns, tendencies, and personalities. Volume I covers cases involving the separation of powers and federalism, including such areas as Congressional authority, the Presidenvy, and foreign affairs. Volume II covers cases in civil rights and liberties: free speech, free press, religion, equal protection, privacy, reproductive rights, affirmative action, and many more.
The full transcriptions are accompoanied with full notes, and citations. There is an extensive bibliography and index. he Supreme Court in Conference will become an essential reference work for scholars, lawyers, law students and the interested lay person.
Author:
Del Dickson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195126327
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price: $310.00
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The Governance of Close Corporations and Partnerships
Examines the limited liability business forms, and seeks to identify the forces that have led to the emergence of new business forms for small and medium-sized businesses. Focusing on the US, UK, and continental Europe, this book analyzes the Limited Liability Company and the Limited Liability Partnership.
Author:
Joseph A. McCahery & Theo Raaijmakers Erik P.M. Vermeulen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199264353
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price: $488.95
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Defend Yourself
Defend Yourself is designed for those who wish to defend a charge in court. It is particularly for those who want to represent themselves but also for those represented by a lawyer who want to better understand the criminal process. It is a signpost guide, which alerts to first principles, then encourages research. This new second edition has been fully revised and the scope of the content has also been widened beyond NSW. The previous edition of this book was written to New South Wales - its laws, institutions and procedures. This second edition has been broadened to apply generally across Australia, but retains New South Wales as a reference point for names of institutions and details of procedures. The position in other States and Territories may be identical and will probably be very similar - but readers in those other jurisdictions should check this out for themselves. Defend Yourself provides a wide range of information about court procedure, trials and sentencing. It will be of interest to those who find themselves in the strange and often intimidating environment of the courtroom.
Author:
Tim Anderson
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862876866
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $29.95
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Retirement Nightmare
Dr. Armstrong, who was forced to battle her own siblings in a million-dollar court battle to place her competent mother in an involuntary conservatorship, reveals how these arcane conservatorship and guardianship codes function in our courts today unfortunately, as the author learned firsthand, the actual application of these codes is determined almost solely by the competence and attitudes of individual judges and investigators. She highlights the key problem areas common to the codes that should be changed and recommends ways that seniors can protect themselves to preserve their personal and financial freedom in their retirement years. She also suggests alternatives to conservatorships and guardianships that exist in every state to help the elderly with various aspects of daily living, such as balancing cheque books, paying bills, grocery shopping, preparing meals, etc. This breakthrough book exposes the secretive world of involuntary 'protective proceedings' and more importantly gives seniors the tools they need to protect themselves from this predatory litigation.
Author:
Diane G. Armstrong
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 9781573927963
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $39.95
Online Price: $34.96
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Mine Safety
Historically, the mining industry has had a high incidence of work related injury and disease, and of disasters involving multiple fatalities. It also faces OHS challenges far exceeding those confronting most other industry sectors. Mine safety legislation can play an important role in meeting those challenges. Although regulation is never likely to be the entire answer, good regulation not only brings laggards up to a minimum legal standard, it also encourages, rewards and facilitates leaders in going beyond them. Bad regulation, in contrast, constrains good enterprises from taking the initiative to improve OHS, while failing to deter bad ones. This book describes mine safety legislation in the mining states and analyses its strengths and weaknesses. It also examines the broader policy questions of how best to design, implement and enforce mine safety regulation. It argues that substantial reform will be necessary not only in setting standards, but also in their implementation, if further OHS improvements are to be achieved.
This implies substantial changes in the way the mine safety inspectorates go about their tasks: in how they administer and enforce the law and in the circumstances in which they choose to prosecute. It also requires the nurturing of a degree of trust between employers and workers (individually and collectively) and between both these parties and the mines inspectorates, that has been substantially lacking in recent years.
Author:
Neil Gunningham
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875661
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $75.00
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Problem of Prisons
For more than 160 years New Zealand has struggled to find a formula for dealing with criminals in a humane, workable and effective way.Arthur Hume, the first Inspector of Prisons, presided over a regime of hard physical labour and severe discipline under austere conditions. Changing philosophies over the decades meant policies of flogging and punishment diets gave way to homely touches such as budgies, potplants and radios in prisoners' cells. Hardening public attitudes to increasingly violent crime in recent years have brought tougher controls on parole, and, recently, the longest non-parole sentence ever handed down. But, under all regimes, reoffending rates have remained disappointingly high.Newbold provides a comprehensive history of the legislative and administrative changes in corrections and interweaves descriptions of the day-to-day realities of prison life as well as more occasional dramas such as the notorious prison escapes by Maori Mac, George Wilder and John Gillies, and the 1965 inmate riot that left Mt Eden almost uninhabitable for days.The Problem of Prisons is the first analysis of the history of the corrections system in New Zealand.
It weighs the complex factors that have driven New Zealand's correctional philosophy and practice since 1840.
Author:
Greg Newbold
Publisher: Dunmore Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781877399213
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $60.00
Online Price: $52.50
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Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice - The Empowerment Model presents a powerful challenge to many current accounts of the criminal justice system. Charles Barton gives a clear and insightful analysis of current restorative justice philosophy and theory. He uses a unifying and overarching principle of empowerment to provide a distinct conceptual framework for restorative justice theory and practice. He puts forward a step-by-step implementation process, which includes restorative meeting facilitation, complete with seating plans and scripted prompts for mediators, keepers, and facilitators. There will also be two sample role plays in the book and additionally there will be four complete role plays available on our website, closer to publication. Barton emphasises the importance of each participant in a restorative justice meeting - the victims, offenders and their supporters as well as professionals such as police, social workers and legal advocates. Successful programs must consistently and reliably achieve maximally restorative outcomes for all of them. Practitioners need always keep this objective in mind.Barton's book will strengthen their comprehension and facilitate application of the practical process.
Author:
Charles Barton
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781876067168
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $49.50
Online Price: $43.31
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Acting from the Heart
In recent years, thousands of Australians from all walks of life have been moved to act in support of asylum seekers and refugees and against the Australian government's immigration policy and practice. In Acting from the Heart, over 50 people who reflect the diversity of this movement describe how and why they became involved. The contributors shared a sense of disbelief and outrage that 'Australian values' suddenly appeared to include callous self-interest and a disregard for human suffering. The detention of over 4000 children could not easily be seen as necessary or 'a fair go'. The experiences described in this collection speak to the profound emotional impact of involvement in this movement. Advocates have undergone extremes of sadness, anger, frustration and joy. There is sadness at the loss of Australia's moral innocence and of identity; anger about the pain and damage inflicted on vulnerable individuals; and the frustration of dealing with a political and bureaucratic machine intent on detention at all costs, and operating within a punitive model where all are guilty. And, occasionally, all this is leavened with the joy of a detainee being released.For some, the 'refugee issue' has become a defining personal stance, one which has engaged and divided families and communities. Acting from the Heart shows the hardship and commitment behind this extensive grassroots political movement. Stories, poems and political cartoons by Australia's foremost, award-winning cartoonists, make up this powerful and provocative book. The refugee question has become a moral debate and, for some, a way of reasserting our essential human values. Acting from the Heart represents a powerful contribution to the ongoing debate about the ethics of our nation and the politics of institutionalised inhumanity worldwide.
Author:
Louise Newman & Sarah Mares
Publisher: Finch Publishing
ISBN: 9781876451783
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $26.95
Online Price: $23.58
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Introducing Criminology
Criminology, or the study of crime, has developed rapidly as a subject in recent years, while crime and the problem of how to respond to it have become major concerns for society as a whole. This book provides a succinct and highly readable - and much needed - introduction to criminology for those who want to learn more, whether they are already studying the subject, thinking of doing so, or just interested to discover what criminology is about. Introducing Criminology begins by asking basic questions: what is crime? what is criminology?, before examining the ways in which crime has been studied, and looking at the main approaches and schools of thought within criminology and how these have been developed. The authors focus particularly upon attempts to understand and explain crime by the disciplines of psychology and sociology, and consider also the impact of feminist and postmodern thought on the development of the subject.
In the second part of the book the authors take three very different topics to illustrate some of the themes raised in the first half of the book, exploring the particular issues raised by each topic, and showing how criminologists have gone about their work: serial murder - the attempt to understand a particular type of crime policing - key issues in the study of the criminal justice process CCTV - how we can tell what works in crime prevention, and what are the wider issues raised by the use of CCTV?
Author:
Clive Coleman & C. Norris
Publisher: Willan Publishing
ISBN: 9781903240090
Format: Paperback Book
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Policing, Ethics and Human Rights
The publication of this important book coincides with the implementation of the Human Rights Act, one of the most significant constitutional changes since the 1688 Bill of Rights...it fills a gap by providing a framework for the debate about ethics in policing and linking it to developing and ensuring an ethical policing culture. It benefits greatly from the authors' strong combination of operational and academic experience and their obvious commitment to the practical application of human rights.From the Foreword by the Rt Hon Jack Straw, MP Home Secretary Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the assumptions about how policing is carried out. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the key issues surrounding ethics in policing, linking this to recent developments and new human rights legislation.
It sets out a powerful case for a modern 'ethical policing' approach. Policing, Ethics and Human Rights argues that securing and protecting human rights should be a major, if not the major, rationale for public policing.
Author:
Peter Neyroud & Alan Beckley
Publisher: Willan Publishing
ISBN: 9781903240151
Format: Paperback Book
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The New Politics of Crime and Punishment
This book provides a critical overview of recent government initiatives in the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies themselves, the perceived problems and issues they seek to address, and the broader social and political context in which this is taking place. The underlying theme of the book is that a qualitative change has taken place in the politics of crime control in the UK since the early 1990s. Although crime has stabilized, imprisonment rates continue to climb, there is a new mood of punitiveness, and crime has become a central policy issue for the government, no longer just a technical matter of law enforcement. There are many parallels with the changing nature of crime control in the USA, and the contributors draw on international comparisons in their respective chapters. The book brings together a team of contributors based at Middlesex University, one of the leading criminology schools in the UK. This book should be valuable reading for anybody seeking an understanding of why crime and criminal justice policy have risen to the top of the political agenda.
Author:
Roger Matthews & Jock Young
Publisher: Willan Publishing
ISBN: 9781903240915
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $55.00
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Business Law
Business Law is a clear and accurate statement of the foundations of the Australian legal system, the law of contract and the major topics in commercial law. Known for facilitating a sound and comprehensive grasp of the subject, Business Law has a strong following amongst the business and legal communities. Company directors and others in business value it as a tool to understand legal concepts involved in everyday dealings and business agreements. Legal practitioners with diverse commercial practices find it valuable as a first resource for themselves, and ideal for their clients' use. Contents include: the nature, sources and structure of Australian law detailed coverage of the law of contract business structures, such as companies, partnerships, trusts and agencies negligence and liability restrictions on trade practices, and consumer protection banking and financial transactions law real and intellectual property law, including copyright, patents and trade marks insurance credit law and bankruptcy.
Author:
Peter Gillies
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875142
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $85.00
Online Price: $74.38
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The Constitution of New South Wales
The Constitution of New South Wales provides for the first time a detailed analysis of all the provisions of the Constitution Act 1902 (NSW), including their legislative history and examples of their use. It covers the constitution, operation and interaction of the State legislature, executive and judiciary, as well as the relationship between the State and the Commonwealth in the federal system. Most importantly, it deals with all the issues necessary to determine the validity of State laws, including: the legislative power of the State Parliament limitations on legislative power derived from different sources including express and implied limitations in the Commonwealth Constitution the effectiveness of State manner and form constraints and the consequences of their breach legislative procedure and the technical rules concerning the passage of taxation and appropriation bills.Whilst the book uses the Constitution Act 1902 (NSW) as its focus, it addresses constitutional issues arising in all Australian States, such as parliamentary privilege, electoral law and disputes about the qualification and disqualification of Members of Parliament, money bills and parliamentary procedure.
It deals with these issues from a State perspective, raising important distinctions that are not addressed in texts on Commonwealth constitutional law. The Constitution of New South Wales places the constitutional framework of the State in its historical and political context. Using previously unpublished government material, it provides a fundamental reassessment of the relationship between the States, the Commonwealth and the United Kingdom, and the first detailed analysis of the negotiation and application of the Australia Acts 1986, which now form a significant part of State constitutions. It explains how the Parliament, the Executive Council and the Cabinet operate in practice, rather than theory, and gives practical examples to illustrate the operation of constitutional provisions...
Author:
Anne Twomey
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875166
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price: $135.00
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Compelling Engagements
After decades of rape law reform, it is still being argued that the criminal justice system fails rape victims, that too few cases are prosecuted and too few prosecutions result in conviction. Compelling Engagements is a ground-breaking work which investigates the narratives of rape law and of romance fiction, and explores the outmoded and strikingly similar depictions of their normative female subjects. These are women who are not only vulnerable but also evidently worthy of the protections or rewards promised: punishment of the rapist or the hero's love. Larcombe's analysis explores: the definitions of rape in the criminal law and romance in Harlequin Mills and Boon fiction the feminine subjects represented in the texts of rape law and romance fiction the feminised subject positions the texts produce: the rape complainant and the romance reader particular fictionalisations of the rape complainant and the romance reader: the false rape complainant and the ideal romance consumer and how these fictionalisations serve the interests of the criminal justice system and the romance publishing industry.
Larcombe shows how the legal construction of gender and subjectivity in rape law is still working to disempower victims. She suggests feminism's failure to accommodate women's investment in heroines of romance fiction has limited their effectiveness in transforming rape law. Compelling Engagements is an original and engaging analysis, and fascinating reading for anyone who deals with rape as part of the criminal justice system.
Author:
Wendy Larcombe
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875258
Format: Paperback Book
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Refugees and State Crime
In the aftermath of World War II, in the shadow of the Holocaust, the countries of the world signed on for a Convention giving rights and safeguards to refugees. Forced migration was a humanitarian not a criminal concern. Being a refugee involved discussion of human rights and protection rather than developing processes of criminalization and law enforcement. Sharon Pickering documents how this has changed. Refugees and asylum seekers are dressed in the clothes of criminals, and national sovereignty has become the focus of the response of the Global North to forced migration. Pickering adopts a State Crime framework, emerging out of a critique of law and order refugee politics, to explain policy responses. The roles of the administration, the justice system and the media are analysed to highlight the discourses of criminality which have come to dominate discussion of refugee and asylum issues. She shows how the spectacle of the refugee as criminal allied to the rise of transnational policing, has led to the opening up of extra-territorial, extra-legal spaces, how contradictions have emerged as to national borders and how the rule of law has been debased.
Author:
Sharon Pickering
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862875418
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price: $55.00
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The Anatomy of Corporate Law
This is a concise analytical overview of the field of corporate law. The authors start from the premise that corporate (or company) law across jurisdictions addresses the same three basic agency problems: the opportunism of managers vis-a-vis shareholders the opportunism of controlling shareholders vis-a-vis minority shareholders and the opportunism of shareholders as a class vis-a-vis other corporate constituencies, such as corporate creditors and employees. Every jurisdiction must address these problems in a variety of contexts framed by the corporation's internal dynamics and its interactions with the product, labour, capital, and takeover markets. The authors' central claim, however, is that corporate (or company) forms are fundamentally similar and that, to a surprising degree, jurisdictions pick from among the same handful of legal strategies - although not always the same strategy - to address the three basic agency issues. This book explains in detail how (and why) the principal European jurisdictions, Japan, and the United States sometimes select identical legal strategies to address a given corporate law problem.
Author:
Paul Davies, Henry Hansmann & others Reinier Kraakman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199260645
Format: Paperback Book
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