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Retention of limitation of liability in maritime claims in modern business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
Obuka, U., & Nwafor, N. A. (2022). Retention of limitation of liability in maritime claims in modern business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria. International Journal of Private Law, 10(2-4), 175-190. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPL.2022.129670

This paper examines the relevance of limitation of liability in maritime claims in today’s business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria. The paper finds that the concept is well entrenched in the legislation of many countries especially the ones... Read More about Retention of limitation of liability in maritime claims in modern business environment in the UK, USA, and Nigeria.

Contracts: “Help wanted” to deliver advanced services (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Alves, K., Oliver, S., & West, S. (2022). Contracts: “Help wanted” to deliver advanced services. In Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE 2022) (150-157). https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2057

Technology-supported business models associated with Servitization and digitally-enhanced Advanced Services rely on the co-creation of value that emerges during engagements between customers and suppliers. This value must be clearly identified in ord... Read More about Contracts: “Help wanted” to deliver advanced services.

Developing Deaf Legal Theory (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Wilks, R. (2022, November). Developing Deaf Legal Theory. Presented at University of Birmingham, Language and Law Seminars, Birmingham

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
Gaffney-Rhys, R. (2022). Raising the minimum age for marriage and civil partnerships. Family Law -Bristol-, 52, 1321-1436

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
Wilks, R., & O'Neill, R. (2022). Deaf education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh

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.

Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators (2022)
Book Chapter
Wilks, R. (2022). Developing Deaf jurisprudence: The role of interpreters and translators. In C. Stone, R. Adam, R. Müller de Quadros, & C. Rathmann (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Translation and Interpreting (249-266). Oxford: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003019664-21

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.

The responsibility to protect principle: A comparative perspective on the last decade of implementation (2022)
Thesis
Siboe, N. The responsibility to protect principle: A comparative perspective on the last decade of implementation. (Thesis). University of Portsmouth. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11445681

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.