Outputs (152)

Developing Deaf Legal Theory (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is Rob Wilks' first lecture on Deaf Legal Theory in which he presents a summary of Bryan and Emery's (2014) seminal chapter, attempts to develop a model through which Deaf Legal Theory can be applied, and applies it to four different areas of la... Read More about Developing Deaf Legal Theory.

Raising the minimum age for marriage and civil partnerships (2022)
Journal Article

The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022 will raise the minimum age for marriage and civil partnerships in England and Wales from 16 to 18, when it comes into force on a date to be determined by the Secretary of State. The number of... Read More about Raising the minimum age for marriage and civil partnerships.

Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh (2022)
Report

Having conducted a review of the impact of the Scottish national BSL plan on deaf education, in particular its issues, failures and successes, during Phase 1 of this project, the purpose of this report was to ascertain whether there is an appetite at... Read More about Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh.

Professional enablers and the facilitation of mortgage fraud (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To understand the facilitating role of professional enablers in financial crime a deeper examination is needed to identify the extent by which their actions, whether directly complicit or through contrived ignorance, supports the commission and ultim... Read More about Professional enablers and the facilitation of mortgage fraud.

Stop and Search Powers in England & Wales: The Commissioner, The Home Secretary, The Media and The Public (2022)
Book Chapter

Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators (2022)
Book Chapter

The aim of this chapter is to contextualise the role of sign language interpreters and translators within a Deaf jurisprudence framework. Several critical issues and topics are discussed: the disparity between the Deaf identity and the laws that prov... Read More about Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators.

Access to protection for women seeking asylum in the UK (2022)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we explore how the changes to UK asylum law, policy and process adopted in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 will impact women seeking asylum in the UK.

The organisation of mortgage fraud and its relationship to the governance, control and regulation of financial services in England and Wales (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper adopts a critical realist approach to examine how mortgage fraud is organised in England and Wales, what the crime-commissioning processes are for its occurrence and what exogenous conditions and influences support its existence and its ca... Read More about The organisation of mortgage fraud and its relationship to the governance, control and regulation of financial services in England and Wales.

The responsibility to protect principle: A comparative perspective on the last decade of implementation (2022)
Thesis

The central task of this thesis is to question how the international community and particularly, the United Nations Security Council, has or failed to invoke the principle of Responsibility to Protect and how this has elicited different reactions an... Read More about The responsibility to protect principle: A comparative perspective on the last decade of implementation.

The political question and litigating loss and damage: Any hope for victims of climate change induced impacts in Nigeria? (2021)
Journal Article

There is the urgency in finding solutions to this global problem and this requires bold actions from governments, the private sector and civil societies. This paper conducts an x-ray of political questions relating to climate change issues. This can... Read More about The political question and litigating loss and damage: Any hope for victims of climate change induced impacts in Nigeria?.