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Gender neutrality, rape and trial talk (2008)
Journal Article
Rumney, P. (2008). Gender neutrality, rape and trial talk. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 21(2), 139-155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-008-9071-7

This article examines the notion of gender neutrality in rape, its meaning and why rape definitions that include females and males as potential victims of rape have become influential in those jurisdictions that have engaged in significant levels of... Read More about Gender neutrality, rape and trial talk.

Credit Union legislative frameworks in the United States of America and the United Kingdom - A flexible friend or a step towards the dark side? (2008)
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Ryder, N. (2008). Credit Union legislative frameworks in the United States of America and the United Kingdom - A flexible friend or a step towards the dark side?. Journal of Consumer Policy, 31(2), 147-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-007-9053-2

This article questions the findings of several studies which have concluded that the Credit Unions Act 1979 was a factor limiting the growth of credit unions in the United Kingdom (UK). The author's conclusions are based upon an analysis of the amend... Read More about Credit Union legislative frameworks in the United States of America and the United Kingdom - A flexible friend or a step towards the dark side?.

An unhappy coupling (2008)
Journal Article
Ryder, N. (2008). An unhappy coupling. New Law Journal, 158(7319), 609

Policing male rape and sexual assault (2008)
Journal Article
Rumney, P. (2008). Policing male rape and sexual assault. Journal of Criminal Law, 72(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2008.72.1.478

This article examines an issue that has been largely ignored in the growing literature on the treatment of sexual offences within the criminal justice system, i.e. the treatment of adult male rape and sexual assault complainants by the police. This a... Read More about Policing male rape and sexual assault.

A tortured debate (2008)
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Rumney, P., & O'Boyle, M. (2008). A tortured debate. New Law Journal, 158(7305),

Accountability for Human Rights abuses: Taking the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human rights seriously (2008)
Journal Article
Grant, E. (2008). Accountability for Human Rights abuses: Taking the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human rights seriously

In spite of the endorsement by the vast majority of states of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and its affirmation of the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, the weak implementation of social and economic rights remains p... Read More about Accountability for Human Rights abuses: Taking the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human rights seriously.

The next stage of devolution? A (d)evolving criminal justice system for Wales (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, J. (2008). The next stage of devolution? A (d)evolving criminal justice system for Wales. Crimes and Misdemeanours : Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective, 2(1), 1-39

The coalition government in Wales has committed itself to seriously consider devolving the criminal justice system for Wales. It is seen as the next possible step in the devolution process. To some extent many of the structures for a devolved crimina... Read More about The next stage of devolution? A (d)evolving criminal justice system for Wales.

The next stage of devolution? A (d)evolving criminal justice system for Wales? (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, J. (2008). The next stage of devolution? A (d)evolving criminal justice system for Wales?. Crimes and Misdemeanours : Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective, 2(1), 1-39

It is argued that the next stage of devolution may well be a devolved criminal justice system for Wales.

The influence of constitutional law on family forms in Germany and Spain (2008)
Journal Article
Merino-Blanco, E., & Jones, J. (2008). The influence of constitutional law on family forms in Germany and Spain. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 20(1), 23-44

This article examines the influence of constitutional norms on family forms in Germany and Spain. Marriage, cohabitation, children and how same-sex unions fit in those three themes are looked at in both jurisdictions. While similar constitutional pro... Read More about The influence of constitutional law on family forms in Germany and Spain.

Law, privacy and information technology: A sleepwalk through the surveillance society? (2008)
Journal Article
O'Brien, M. (2008). Law, privacy and information technology: A sleepwalk through the surveillance society?. Information and Communications Technology Law, 17(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830801887214

The Surveillance Studies Network report of 2006 on the ‘surveillance society’, highlighting the omnipresence of information technology in British society, once again brought into sharp focus concerns about the types and levels of technological survei... Read More about Law, privacy and information technology: A sleepwalk through the surveillance society?.

Hidden money (2008)
Journal Article
Ryder, N. (2008). Hidden money. New Law Journal, 158(7348), 36-37

Bursting the mortgage bubble (2008)
Journal Article
Ryder, N., & Chambers-Jones, C. (2008). Bursting the mortgage bubble. New Law Journal, 158(7326), 882-883