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The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note (2013)
Journal Article
Platsas, A. E. (2013). The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, 2013(2), 333-337

The Rule of Law as a concept in contemporary Europe is not one which has the exact same connotations as the connotations which the concept used to have decades ago. It grew to become a significantly wider concept than traditionally perceived. Its val... Read More about The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.

The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Platsas, A. E. (2013). The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.

The Rule of Law as a concept in contemporary Europe is not one which has the exact same connotations as the connotations which the concept used to have decades ago. It grew to become a significantly wider concept than traditionally perceived. Its v... Read More about The rule of law in the modern European context: A critical note.

Inside police custody: An empirical account of suspects' rights in four jurisdictions (2013)
Book
Blackstock, J., Cape, E., Hodgson, J., Ogorodova, A., & Spronken, T. (2013). Inside police custody: An empirical account of suspects' rights in four jurisdictions. Mortsel and Cambridge: Intersentia

This empirical study of the procedural rights of suspects in four EU jurisdictions - France, Scotland, the Netherlands and England and Wales - focuses on three of the procedural rights set out in the EU Roadmap for strengthening the procedural rights... Read More about Inside police custody: An empirical account of suspects' rights in four jurisdictions.

Workplace partnership and professional workers: 'about as useful as a chocolate teapot'? (2013)
Journal Article
Danford, A., Durbin, S., Richardson, M., Stewart, P., & Tailby, S. (2014). Workplace partnership and professional workers: 'about as useful as a chocolate teapot'?. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(6), 879-894. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2013.852606

The labour processes and employment relations that characterise the working conditions of many professional workers might be expected to generate the high-trust environment required for cooperative, partnership-style management-union relations. Howev... Read More about Workplace partnership and professional workers: 'about as useful as a chocolate teapot'?.

Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010 (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, October). Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010. Paper presented at IUS Chicago 2013, Chicago, USA

In the UK, women are excluded from ground combat roles and other specific close quarter specialities. There have been two assessments of this position by the Ministry of Defence (2002 and 2010) with both concluding that the restriction should remain... Read More about Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010.

Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, October). Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military. Paper presented at IUS Chicago 2013, Chicago, USA

The principle of equality, and its legal rights to non-discrimination, has had a considerable impact on all aspects of society, the military included. The latest evidence of this in the US are the repeal of DADT and the abolition of the restriction o... Read More about Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military.

To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article
Ryder, N. (2013). To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Journal of Business Law, 8, 767-798

The origins of the international community’s policy and legislative measures towards confiscating the proceeds of crime can be traced back to the instigation of the ‘War on Drugs’. The scope and remit of these confiscation powers were extended follo... Read More about To confiscate or not to confiscate? A comparative analysis of the confiscation of the proceeds of crime legislation in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Blackstone's criminal practice 2014 sections D1 and D2 (2013)
Book Chapter
Cape, E. (2013). Blackstone's criminal practice 2014 sections D1 and D2. In D. Ormerod, & A. Hooper (Eds.), Blackstone's Criminal Practice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

A standard text on criminal practice published annually, with three supplements.

Customary law and human rights (2013)
Book Chapter
Grant, E. (2013). Customary law and human rights. In S. Sheeran, & N. Rodley (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on International Human Rights Law. Routledge

The exploitation of offshore financial centres: Banking confidentiality and money laundering (2013)
Journal Article
Young, M. A. (2013). The exploitation of offshore financial centres: Banking confidentiality and money laundering. Journal of Money Laundering Control, 16(3), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMLC-01-2013-0004

© 2013, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. PurposeThe paper aims to highlight the relationship between money laundering and banking confidentiality in offshore financial centres – particularly following the recent publicity and BBC expose surrounding... Read More about The exploitation of offshore financial centres: Banking confidentiality and money laundering.

Agriculture, food security and the environment: Policy and regulatory challenges (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Grant, E., & Das, O. (2013, June). Agriculture, food security and the environment: Policy and regulatory challenges. Paper presented at Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) International Conference "Ecological Integrity, Globalization and Radical Social Change: From the UN to the Earth Charter, San Jose, Costa Rica

Cyber economic crime and commonwealth laws (2013)
Journal Article
Chambers-Jones, C. (2013). Cyber economic crime and commonwealth laws. International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 6(1-2), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIPM.2013.053451

The aim of this paper is to discuss the legal issues affecting commonwealth countries in terms of virtual/cyber financial crime. Virtual financial crime or cyber financial crime is where acts of fraud money laundering, etc., take place over the inter... Read More about Cyber economic crime and commonwealth laws.

The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements (2013)
Journal Article
Pontin, B. (2013). The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements. Journal of Law and Society, 40(2), 173-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00619.x

This article examines the environmental benefits arising from compliance with common law nuisance injunctions during the British industrial revolution. It argues, based on the outcomes of industrial nuisance actions involving allegations of serious a... Read More about The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements.