CHAPTER TWO – DEVELOPMENT OF ARTICLE 3 HEALTHCARE CASES Article 3 provides: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” This is an absolute right which makes no provision for exceptions and no derogation from it is permissible, even in the event of a […]
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION All businesses are ultimately defined by the people who work in them. What makes family businesses different are the ties between members which extend beyond the typical commercial and business relationships. This can make resolving disputes between the members of the business more difficult and also has […]
CHAPTER ONE AN INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS This is a book about technology and artificial intelligence – more specifically one that is designed to assist the non-scientifically minded legal practitioner to understand the implications of this new and exciting technology: to demystify, and hopefully provide clarity around the issues […]
CHAPTER ONE WHAT MUST I PAY? This chapter outlines the principal financial obligations under commercial leases. While there are a considerable number of Acts of Parliament which regulate the landlord and tenant relationship, the most important source of the parties’ rights and obligations is the terms of the contract, i.e. […]
CHAPTER TWO WHAT IS “NEW BUILD CONVEYANCING”? Paul Sams Many people in life claim to be a specialist. Few ever are. I will make a confession. Really I am a generalist. I do a little bit of everything when it comes to property. Acting for buyers and sellers of existing […]
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 […]
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