CHAPTER TWO – CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY Corporations and Organisations There are competing principles of attribution of criminal liability, which are themselves not exclusive of each other, namely the ‘identification doctrine’ (following the principles set out in Meridian Global Funds Management Asia Ltd v Securities Commission1) and the doctrine of vicarious […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION A defining characteristic of the criminal law is the way in which its rules of evidence fundamentally change the facts of a case. This is because of the unique role of the jury: it is the sole arbiter of facts, but has no say in the law […]
CHAPTER ONE HISTORY OF LOCAL AUTHORITY LEISURE CONTRACTS AND CURRENT PROVISION Introduction In this chapter the following will be considered: the Beginnings of local authority leisure; compulsory Competitive Tendering and the Development of the local authority trust; the Legacy of the Past and the Current Marketplace The Beginnings of Local […]
CHAPTER TWO PRIVATE TENANCIES The Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (the “2006 Order”) has been a key element in the growth of the private rented sector in Northern Ireland. It was not the only driver of that growth, which began in the 1990s as the peace dividend and the […]
CHAPTER ONE CREATION OF LEASE OBLIGATIONS A lease, at its very basic level, is a contract between the heritable proprietor of land and a third party, regulating the use and possession of a property, subject to certain conditions. It would make sense, in my mind, to set out the essential […]
CHAPTER ONE EUROPEAN UNFAIR COMMERCIAL PRACTICE DIRECTIVE 2005/29/EC Though by no means the first relevant piece of legislation in time, a useful starting point in the consideration of the legislative evolution in this area is the EU directive on unfair commercial practices from 2005. The Directive was the culmination of […]
CHAPTER TWO THE LAW PRIOR TO 1997 The heart of this work concerns the duties which are incumbent upon a lender where they take a guarantee or other security from a third party for the debts of a business or person closely connected to that party. The law of Scotland […]
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Why were the Regulations introduced? What do they try to achieve? The short answer to the first question is, the Regulations were introduced because an EU law (Directive) forced the UK to do so. The short answer to the second question is, the Regulations try to achieve […]
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