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Johns Hopkins University Press The Lazarus Case
Book SynopsisLantos uses these literary examples to further illustrate the ambiguities, misunderstandings, responsibilities, and evasions that plague our decisions regarding life and death, medical care and medical education, and ultimately the cost and value of preserving the lives of the most vulnerable among us.Trade ReviewThis book is a good read for anyone working in modern health care and involved or interested in any way with the difficult and frustratingly ambiguous decisions that must be made daily while caring for the critically ill. -- Jonathan M. Whitfield, M.D. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings This outstanding book is one of the most important on medical ethics in the past ten years... It is authored by a physician who views issues of the day firsthand in a thoughtful, realistic, and consistent style. The result is elegant and highly readable. Lantos examines ethical problems of neonatal intensive care through his depositional testimony regarding a child who unaccountably survived after treatment was stopped; the result was severe neurological deficit. This device allows Lantos to make cogent but never doctrinaire comments on our judicial system and the progress of technology at the expense of humanity... A must read for physicians, health authorities, and all who in desiring justice imbued with moral acceptance recognize that medical certitude is beyond our powers. Choice Lantos presents an eye-opening and thought-provoking discussion in a unique style... Lantos is honest and voices some of the questions that many, if not all, physicians and medical ethicists have probably thought about... A must-read for all physicians, [and] especially important for those interested in pediatrics, neonatology, geriatrics, or any aspect of medicine that involves life-vs.-death decisions. New Physician The Lazarus Case is recommended for anyone who is involved in patient care and clinical decision making, and will be an effective resource for teaching bioethics to undergraduate, nursing, and medical students. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly The very readable text offers a compelling perspective, both personal and professional, on a tragic situation that illuminates how difficult it is to determine whether any treatment decision is right or wrong, despite the law's best efforts to render such verdicts. -- Felicia G. Cohn Religious Studies Review Compelling. Lantos's narrative style makes for pleasurable reading; once you start a given chapter it is difficult to put his book down. He is at his best when sharing his personal experiences in the clinical realm and insights from relevant nonmedical literature. I am confident it will generate important discussions within our group that will benefit each of us and the infants and families we care for. Journal of the American Medical Association Lantos has taken an important practical problem and applied our understanding of moral and ethical theory to the issue of the appropriateness of care. An important message here is that in the context of this particular case, there are no right or wrong answers to questions posed. New England Journal of Medicine A literate, thoughtful, and provocative work... An excellent way for experts and novices in bioethics, health professionals, and the lay public to be exposed to the complexities of ethical dilemmas in medicine. Medical Humanities Review Many books have been written about the ethical dilemmas surrounding premature births, but this title, written in a style that should appeal to general readers, stands out as a solid introduction to these issues. Recommended for public and academic libraries. Library JournalTable of ContentsContents: The Lazarus Case: Life and Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care Chapter 1 Somebody Will Pay Chapter 2 Passing Out In The NICU Chapter 3 Learning about Death and Dying Chapter 4 Standards of Care Chapter 5 Prognostication and Futility Chapter 6 Consent, Communication, Shared Decision Making Chapter 7 Getting Paid Chapter 8 Home Births Chapter 9 Mistakes in Context Chapter 10 Closing Argument
£31.14
Johns Hopkins University Press The Lazarus Case LifeandDeath Issues in Neonatal
Book SynopsisLantos uses these literary examples to further illustrate the ambiguities, misunderstandings, responsibilities, and evasions that plague our decisions regarding life and death, medical care and medical education, and ultimately the cost and value of preserving the lives of the most vulnerable among us.Trade ReviewThis book is a good read for anyone working in modern health care and involved or interested in any way with the difficult and frustratingly ambiguous decisions that must be made daily while caring for the critically ill. -- Jonathan M. Whitfield, M.D. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings This outstanding book is one of the most important on medical ethics in the past ten years... It is authored by a physician who views issues of the day firsthand in a thoughtful, realistic, and consistent style. The result is elegant and highly readable. Lantos examines ethical problems of neonatal intensive care through his depositional testimony regarding a child who unaccountably survived after treatment was stopped; the result was severe neurological deficit. This device allows Lantos to make cogent but never doctrinaire comments on our judicial system and the progress of technology at the expense of humanity... A must read for physicians, health authorities, and all who in desiring justice imbued with moral acceptance recognize that medical certitude is beyond our powers. Choice Lantos presents an eye-opening and thought-provoking discussion in a unique style... Lantos is honest and voices some of the questions that many, if not all, physicians and medical ethicists have probably thought about... A must-read for all physicians, [and] especially important for those interested in pediatrics, neonatology, geriatrics, or any aspect of medicine that involves life-vs.-death decisions. New Physician The Lazarus Case is recommended for anyone who is involved in patient care and clinical decision making, and will be an effective resource for teaching bioethics to undergraduate, nursing, and medical students. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 2005 The very readable text offers a compelling perspective, both personal and professional, on a tragic situation that illuminates how difficult it is to determine whether any treatment decision is right or wrong, despite the law's best efforts to render such verdicts. -- Felicia G. Cohn Religious Studies Review 2003 Compelling. Lantos's narrative style makes for pleasurable reading; once you start a given chapter it is difficult to put his book down. He is at his best when sharing his personal experiences in the clinical realm and insights from relevant nonmedical literature. I am confident it will generate important discussions within our group that will benefit each of us and the infants and families we care for. Journal of the American Medical Association Lantos has taken an important practical problem and applied our understanding of moral and ethical theory to the issue of the appropriateness of care. An important message here is that in the context of this particular case, there are no right or wrong answers to questions posed. New England Journal of Medicine A literate, thoughtful, and provocative work... An excellent way for experts and novices in bioethics, health professionals, and the lay public to be exposed to the complexities of ethical dilemmas in medicine. Medical Humanities Review Many books have been written about the ethical dilemmas surrounding premature births, but this title, written in a style that should appeal to general readers, stands out as a solid introduction to these issues. Recommended for public and academic libraries. Library JournalTable of ContentsContents: The Lazarus Case: Life and Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care Chapter 1 Somebody Will Pay Chapter 2 Passing Out In The NICU Chapter 3 Learning about Death and Dying Chapter 4 Standards of Care Chapter 5 Prognostication and Futility Chapter 6 Consent, Communication, Shared Decision Making Chapter 7 Getting Paid Chapter 8 Home Births Chapter 9 Mistakes in Context Chapter 10 Closing Argument
£20.70
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Habitual Ethics?
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the conditions under which habit – and pre-reflective agency – can remain at the service of our ethical lives. What if data-intensive technologies’ ability to mould habits with unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass disability of profound consequences? What if we become incapable of modifying the deeply-rooted habits that stem from our increased technological dependence? On an impoverished understanding of habit, the above questions are easily shrugged off. Habits are deemed rigid by definition: ‘as long as our deliberative selves remain capable of steering the design of data-intensive technologies, we’ll be fine’. To question this assumption, this book first articulates the way in which the habitual stretches all the way from unconscious tics to purposive, intentionally acquired habits. It also highlights the extent to which our habit-reliant, pre-reflective intelligence normally supports our deliberative selves. It is when habit rigidification sets in that this complementarity breaks down. The book moves from a philosophical inquiry into the ‘double edge’ of habit — its empowering and compromising sides — to consideration of individual and collective strategies to keep habits at the service of our ethical life. Allowing the norms that structure our forms of life to be cotton-wooled in abstract reasoning is but one of the factors that can compromise ongoing social and moral transformations. Systems designed to simplify our practical reasoning can also make us ‘sheep-like’. Drawing a parallel between the moral risk inherent in both legal and algorithmic systems, the book concludes with concrete interventions designed to revive the scope for normative experimentation. It will appeal to any reader concerned with our retaining an ability to trigger change within the practices that shape our ethical sensibility. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Mozilla Foundation.Trade ReviewThe flow of thought is compelling, but it is also a dance of the intellect, where you need to stand back after each section to marvel at where it has taken you and is about to take you. * BJGP Life *Table of ContentsI. What is a Habit? II. The Habitual and the Ethical: Unhappy Marriage? III. Why Does ‘Habitual Ethics’ Matter Today? IV. Chapters Overview PART I HABIT AND INDIVIDUAL AGENCY 1. From Facts to Norms (and Back) I. Defining ‘the Natural’ (and the Role of Science) A. When ‘the Natural’ is Restricted to that which is the Result of Elementary Forces B. Inhabited Nature II. The ‘Motivation Problem’ III. ‘Following a Rule’ A. ‘Primitive Appropriateness’ B. Dispositions, the Possibility of Mistakes and ‘Primitive Inappropriateness’ 2. Habit and Skill Acquisition I. Skilful Coping and Skilful Action II. The Structure of the Environment and its Impact on Skill Acquisition A. The ‘Skilled Intuitions’ Stance B. The ‘Heuristics and Bias’ Stance C. Explaining Divergent Stances on Intuitive Expertise by Reference to the Structure of the Environment III. ‘Tacit’ Learning Attitude(s) A. Automaticity and Availability to Conscious Awareness B. Automaticity and Adaptability i. External Goal Adaptability ii. Adaptability of One’s Self-understanding 3. Routine and Rigidified Habits I. Teleologically Indeterminate Professional Encounters A. The Situational Vulnerability at the Heart of the Lay–Professional Encounter B. The Particular Responsibility that Stems from Lay Situational Vulnerability II. Humility and ‘Sophia’: Pre-Conditions of Habit Plasticity? III. Obstacles to Habit Plasticity in Professional Contexts A. Case Study B. The Emotional and Physiological Costs of Habit Reversal C. Balancing Model Stability and Habit Plasticity within the Learning Process 4. Growing Out of the Habitual I. Growing Out of the Habitual: Habit versus Reason II. When ‘Reason’ Shields Us from Normative Significance 5. Growing within the Habitual I. Responsiveness to Reasons A. Why ‘Reasons’? B. The Gap between ‘Reasons’ and Normative Significance II. Habit and the Work of Attention A. GP Consultation with Seemingly ‘Peripheral’ Child Safeguarding Concerns B. Imposing a Mental Defence in Criminal Law C. Seeing Past Habitual Salience and the Role of Personal Encounters III. Responsiveness to the Other: A Forgotten Capability? A. Selective Responsiveness and the Possibility of Immanent Critique B. A Pervasive – Yet Optimistic – ‘Mode of Being Ethical’? C. Compromised ‘Forms of Life’ PART II COLLECTIVE HABITS AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONS 6. Law and Habits I. The Narrow View: The Step from ‘the Pre-Legal to the Legal’ A. Organically Grown Customs versus ‘Constitutive’ Practices B. Addressing a ‘Defective’ Form of Social Control Through ‘Official’ Rules C. Accounting for the Emergence of Law as a Normative Phenomenon II. Non-Deliberative Components within a Genealogy of Legal Normativity A. Habit Hostility B. Habit Ambivalence i. The Wittgensteinian Take on ‘Custom’ ii. The Weberian Narrative C. From Collective Patterns of Behaviour to Legal Norms III. The Types of Habits Law May Foster A. Qualitatively Different Habits B. Division of Normative Labour and its Moral Risks C. Legal Institutional Structures, Alienation Risks and Habit Rigidification 7. Algorithmic Habits and Social Transformations I. Inferred Traits and Optimisation Endeavours A. Profile-based, Personalised Optimisation Tools B. Manipulation as Hidden and Non-deliberative Interventions II. Precluded Transformations: Alienation Through Reification A. Narrowing of Imaginative Horizons B. Habitats and their Inherent Narrowing of Encountered Worldviews C. Habitat Co-construction and the Possibility of Experimentation III. Ensemble Contestability A. Case Study B. From ‘Passive’ and Individualist Explanations to Ensemble Contestability IV. Bottom-up Data Trusts
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Law and Regulation of Solicitors Management
Book SynopsisDrawing on the author's direct experience as a regulatory decision maker and her subsequent time teaching legal services professionals, The Law and Regulation of Solicitors: Management Skills brings together a broad range of materials based on research and presentations from continuous professional development for law firms.Encompassing a wide range of regulatory and compliance subjects, the texts and materials present the context and expectations of legal regulators such as the SRA and CLC in an easily referenceable format.Each section covers material on different management subjects intended to be used by senior and aspiring management in law firms. With reference to key legislation in the regulation of solicitors and other lawyers; example policies featured within the texts; and an extensive range of template internal AML audits; the book is an important reference guide for those running a law firm.There is a wide range of learning activities in eac
£133.00
American Bar Association Whose Choice Is It? Abortion, Medicine, and the
Book SynopsisWhose Choice Is It? Abortion, Medicine, and the Law, 7th Edition is the definitive book that addresses every aspect of reproductive health and abortion in the United States and worldwide. It also addresses contraceptive and abortion practices, how the world is changing in those regards, and what the future likely holds. No other source provides the comprehensive medical, ethical, and legal analyses in this book. Counsel advising a client about reproductive health or abortion will find the book an invaluable resource that can be used either to learn about specific topics in depth, or as a quick reference guide. Constitutional law in the United States and Canada is explained in depth, and the chapter on comparative law is a unique treatment of applicable laws – both historically and presently – around the world. The contributing authors are experts in their fields, making this edition the “must have” book for anyone with any interest in these subjects.
£116.30
The Law Society COFAs Toolkit: In association with the Law
Book SynopsisThis toolkit will help COFAs and anyone working in the accounts department of a law firm to implement and oversee systems to ensure compliance with the SRA Accounts Rules.
£72.80
The Law Society Assessing and Addressing Risk and Compliance in
Book SynopsisAssessing and Addressing Risk and Compliance in Your Law Firm is essential reading for all law firms to ensure they are compliant and risk averse.
£65.00
The Law Society COLPs Toolkit
Book SynopsisThe COLPs Toolkit contains the essential checklists, forms, policies and other documentation that a COLP needs to perform their role in a handy single volume.
£73.61
The Law Society The Solicitor's Handbook 2022
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the regulations governing the conduct of solicitors. The 2022 edition has been updated to take account of all the key regulatory developments which have taken place since the publication of the 2019 edition.
£95.00
The Law Society Cyber Security Toolkit
Book SynopsisCyber security is a central issue for legal services providers, their insurers and regulators. This second edition of Cyber Security Toolkit has been fully revised and updated to cover current cyber security threats and best practice approaches.
£60.00
The Law Society UK General Data Protection Regulation: A Guide to
Book SynopsisThis essential text explains what the UK GDPR means both for firms' own personal data and the personal data of the clients they advise.
£65.00
The Law Society SRA Standards and Regulations
Book SynopsisThe SRA Standards and Regulations is essential reading for all solicitors to ensure that they are complying with the rules set down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Many of the standards and regulations have been updated since the last edition and this latest book is updated with all the changes approved by the Legal Services Board in December 2023 including: * Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs * Code of Conduct for Firms * Application, Notice, Review and Appeal Rules * Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules * Authorisation of Individuals Regulations * SRA Education, Training and Assessment Provider Regulations * SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules * Indemnity Fund (Enactment) Rules and Indemnity Fund Rules * Indemnity Insurance Rules * SQE Assessment Regulations * Enforcement strategy Changes approved by the Legal Services Board, December 2023: * Authorisation of Individuals Regulations * Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs * SRA Roll, Registers and Publication Regulations * Glossary
£33.25
The Law Society SRA Standards and Regulations May 2025 edition
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£33.25
The Law Society SRA Investigations
Book SynopsisSRA Investigations is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to the law and practice relating to investigations by the SRA.
£76.00
The Law Society Inhouse Lawyers Risk and Compliance Questions and
Book SynopsisThrough a series of questions and answers, this book will assist solicitors employed by non-solicitor employers to understand and manage their regulatory and ethical duties. It provides expert advice on some of the most common issues that are likely to arise for the in-house lawyer.
£70.00
The Law Society Conflicts Confidentiality and Disclosure
Book SynopsisWith an easily accessible Q&A format, this book will provide anyone regulated by the SRA or employed in an SRA-regulated firm with key knowledge about risk management of conflicts of interests and duties that relate to confidentiality and disclosure.
£76.00
The Law Society AntiMoney Laundering Toolkit
Book SynopsisThis new edition of the Anti-Money Laundering Toolkit will provide you with practical know-how about combatting money laundering and contains checklists, forms, policies and other templates to help you demonstrate compliance.
£70.00
The Law Society Risk and Compliance Questions and Answers
Book SynopsisThrough a series of questions and answers, covering common to complex issues, this new edition provides practical guidance on points that those tasked with risk and compliance in their firm or business need to consider and respond to quickly. It also provides invaluable assistance to all managers and fee earners working in the firm.
£80.75
The Law Society Sanctions Handbook
Book SynopsisWritten by specialist Barrister Hugo Lodge, it will guide you on how to comply with sanctions regimes and what to consider when faced with a potential sanctions breach. The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 is considered in detail as well as recent guidance from the courts.
£123.50
The Law Society AntiMoney Laundering Guidance for the Legal
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£38.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Regulating Judges: Beyond Independence and
Book SynopsisRegulating Judges presents a novel approach to judicial studies. It goes beyond the traditional clash of judicial independence versus judicial accountability. Drawing on regulatory theory, Devlin and Dodek argue that judicial regulation is multi-faceted and requires us to consider the complex interplay of values, institutional norms, procedures, resources and outcomes. Inspired by this conceptual framework, the book invites scholars from 19 jurisdictions to describe and critique the regulatory regimes for a variety of countries from around the world. This innovative and provocative analysis of the many different ways that judiciaries around the world are regulated covers common law, civil law and other legal systems, and the developed and developing world. Contributors include a diverse talent pool of established scholars and new voices for a globally inclusive comparative examination of judiciaries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia. The overall conclusion is that the regulation of judges is very much a work in progress, and that a variety of actors bear responsibility for moving the project forward.Scholars in the fields of law, social sciences, regulation theory, and public administration will find Regulating Judges an impactful read, as will regulators, public policy makers and analysts, and judges themselves.Contributors include: D. Aksamovic, G. Appleby, R.W. Campbell, K.-W. Chan, H. Corder, S.M.R. Cravens, T. Dare, R. Devlin, F. Dias Simoes, A. Dodek, M. Fabri, D. Fennelly, G. Gee, R. Goldstone , M.A. Jardim de Santa Cruz Oliveira, F. Klass, S. Le Mire, J.L. Neo, T.G. Puthucherril, A. Trochev, H. Whalen-Bridge, C. Wolf, F. Yulin, L. Zer-GutmanTrade Review‘The book makes a fine addition to comparative legal scholarship, and comparative lawyers interested in courts and judges will find it to be a useful resource. The editors' ambition to encourage a broader view of courts through the application of regulatory theory, and by explicitly considering values, processes, resources and outcomes, is to be applauded as it stands to lead to a richer and more nuanced understanding of the judicial institution.’ -- Lorne Neudorf, Cambridge Law Journal'Too often, the regulation of judges is justified as striking a 'balance' (usually at an arbitrary point) between judicial independence and public accountability. Regulating Judges breaks from this thinking, resetting an analysis of judicial regulation inside a three-dimensional pyramid of processes, resources, values and outcomes. Devlin and Dodek have mustered an impressive team of scholars to re-evaluate judicial regulation in 19 countries - many themselves constitutionally complex. The result is a weighty collection of intellectual depth and unprecedented geographic breadth. Scholars, judiciaries and, above all, governments should read Regulating Judges and learn and digest its insights.' --Reid Mortensen, Legal Ethics'We often use the accountability-independence dichotomy to examine judicial conduct. In their book, Regulating Judges: Beyond Independence and Accountability, Professors Richard Devlin and Adam Dodek illuminate the limitations of this approach, developing a more complete regulatory pyramid to capture the complex and multidimensional environment in which judges function. In judging judges, the pyramid provides a framework for examining current systems and proposed changes for decades to come.' --Susan Saab Fortney, Texas A&M University, School of LawTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Justice Richard Goldstone 1. Regulating Judges: Challenges, Controversies and Choices Richard Devlin and Adam Dodek 2. The Australian Judiciary: Resistant to Reform? Gabrielle Appleby and Suzanne Le Mire 3. Beyond Independence and Accountability: Balancing Judicial Regulation in Brazil Maria Angela Jardim de Santa Cruz Oliveira 4. ‘Fighting Words’: Regulating Judges in Canada Adam Dodek and Richard Devlin 5. Moving Target – The Regulation Of Judges In China’s Rapidly Evolving Legal System Ray Worthy Campbell and Fu Yulin 6. Regulatory Reform in Croatia: An Uphill Battle to Enhance Public Confidence Dubravka Akšamović 7. Judicial Policy in England and Wales: A New Regulatory Space Graham Gee 8. Just ‘The Mouth’ of Statutory Law or More?: The Theory and Practice of Judicial Regulation in Germany Christian Wolf and Fabienne Klass 9. Balancing The Scales Of Justice In India: From Parliamentary Supremacy To Judicial Supremacy And Back? Tony George Puthucherril 10. Reluctant Reformers? Formalizing Judicial Regulation in Ireland David Fennelly 11. Decentralized Regulation: Reconciling Inter-branch Tensions in Israel Limor Zer-Gutman 12. Clash of Visions: Regulating Judges and Prosecutors In Italy Marco Fabri 13. Regulating Judges, Japanese-Style: The Prevalence of Informal Mechanisms Kay-Wah Chan 14. A Judicial Code of Ethics: Regulating Judges and Restoring Public Confidence in Malaysia Jaclyn L. Neo and Helena Whalen-Bridge 15. Discipline and Modernise: Regulating New Zealand Judges Tim Dare 16. The Portuguese Judiciary Amid Old and New Crises Fernando Dias Simões 17. An Internal Code of Ethics: Regulating Judges in Singapore Helena Whalen-Bridge and Jaclyn Neo 18. Regulating Judges in Russia’s Dual State: Between Constitutional and Administrative Regimes Alexei Trochev 19. Struggling to Adapt: Regulating Judges in South Africa Hugh Corder 20. Regulating Judges in The United States: Concerns for Public Confidence Sarah M.R. Cravens Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Insolvency Practitioners: Appointment, Duties,
Book SynopsisThis is an indispensable and practical overview of the functions and liabilities of the insolvency practitioner (IP), bringing together the expertise of insolvency practitioners and specialist lawyers. It considers the circumstances in which IPs are appointed, their duties and their powers, before offering a detailed investigation into their potential professional liabilities, as well as in-depth guidance to practitioners and advisers as to how claims might be framed and defended.Utilising knowledge drawn from decades of practice, Insolvency Practitioners examines both reported case law and unreported cases from the authors’ own experiences to provide unparalleled insight and information. It also discusses unresolved and tendentious matters such as aspects of remuneration, the end of personal IP licensing, and recent changes introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, and provides clarity on the latitude given to IPs in exercising their commercial judgement.This book provides unique and comprehensive coverage of the significant body of case law in this area, and will prove essential reading for all IPs, insolvency and restructuring lawyers, as well as those dealing with matters relating to professional negligence. Its exploration of contentious issues in the field will also be of interest to academics and postgraduate researchers with a focus on insolvency law.Trade Review'This book is a real accomplishment and will make a significant contribution to the existing literature in insolvency law. Given the practical nature of the work it will make invaluable contributions to all those who operate before the Business and Property Courts, assisting IPs, lawyers and judges.' -- John Wood, eurofenix'What should insolvency practitioners do, what can they do and what if they get it wrong? This invaluable book answers those fundamental questions. Its unique perspective, born of the authors' years of experience and their combined breadth and depth of legal knowledge, lays bare the duties, powers and liability of insolvency practitioners. It should be required reading for all insolvency licence holders and merits thorough consultation by both contentious and non-contentious insolvency lawyers.' -- Chris Laughton, Mercer & Hole, UK'This book unpacks the complex backdrop that insolvency practitioners have to navigate when exercising their duties and powers often in highly pressured situations. The balancing act between commercial judgment, compliance with statutory obligations, adhering to codes of practice and ethical guidance and managing conflict is carefully analysed and explored with reference to the large body of case law that has built up over time. The experienced authors offer their insights based on detailed research and own experience and are also prepared to express a view. This book will, no doubt, become a ''go to'' resource both for those insolvency practitioners taking decisions and their advisors, and will be very much welcomed by the profession.'> -- Joanne Rumley, Foot Anstey LLP, UK'I am delighted that this book has been written. Risk is rarely far from the IP's mind. To have all the legal aspects contributing to risk which should be considered by the insolvency Office-Holder, comprehensively referenced and clearly explained by an eminent team, all in one volume, is invaluable.' -- Giles Frampton, Richard J. Smith & Co LLP, UK'Insolvency practitioners generally attract a bad press: they have been described as undertakers, and vultures, necessary to maintain the hygienic working of the market, but otherwise unwelcome spectres at the capitalist feast; they have been accused of ''insolvent abuse'' because they charge, often handsomely, for what they do. Recognition of the work they do saving jobs and businesses receives less attention. Insolvency Practitioners: Appointments, Duties, Powers and Liability, the first comprehensive work on insolvency office-holders, seeks not to generate heat but to shed light on the complex and varied functions they perform. In eight chapters and 300 odd pages, Hugh Sims QC, a team of authors drawn from two sets known for their insolvency expertise, and a respected insolvency practitioner cover every aspect of office-holder functions: from qualification and appointment, to duties and liabilities. No legal text will answer every question that may arise; but this one goes a long way towards doing so. Its first edition is to be welcomed. Further editions are assured.' -- Stephen Baister, Manolete PLC, UK'It is my privilege to endorse this publication, covering an area of law that was crying out for academic commentary. This experienced team of insolvency specialists have written an informative and insightful analysis on the roles and duties of insolvency practitioners in the UK, making it a must-have for all IPs, lawyers and stakeholders. It is up to date and includes recent case law, along with guidance based on the changes brought by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020. A must-buy!' -- Christina Fitzgerald, Moon Beever LLP, UK and Vice President of R3Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1 Introduction PART I QUALIFICATION AND APPOINTMENT 2. Qualification and authorisation of insolvency practitioners 3. Appointment, termination and removal PART II DUTIES AND POWERS IN OFFICE 4. The duties of office-holders 5. Powers of office-holders PART III OFFICE-HOLDER LIABILITY 6. Breaches of duty 7. Remedies for breach of IP’s duty 8. Defences Annex I Table AI.1 Comparison of Schedules 1, 4 and 5 to the Insolvency Act 1986 (numerical order) Annex II Table AII.1 Comparing and contrasting Schedules 1, 4 and 5 to the Insolvency Act 1986 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Disciplining Judges: Contemporary Challenges and
Book SynopsisGlobally, countries are faced with a complex act of statecraft: how to design and defensible complaints and discipline regime. In this collection, contributors provide critical analyses of judicial complaints and discipline systems in thirteen diverse jurisdictions, revealing that an effective and legitimate regime requires the nuanced calibration of numerous public values including independence, accountability, impartiality, fairness, reasoned justification, transparency, representation, and efficiency.The jurisdictions examined are Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, England and Wales, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, and the United States. The core findings are four-fold. First, the norms and practices of each discipline regime differ in ways that reflect distinct social, political, and cultural contexts. Second, some jurisdictions are doing better than others in responding to challenges of designing a nuanced and normatively defensible regime. Third, no jurisdiction has yet managed to construct a regime that can be said to adequately promote public confidence. Finally, important lessons can be learned through analysis of, and critically constructive engagement with, other jurisdictions.The first comprehensive comparative collection on judicial discipline systems, Disciplining Judges, will inspire new conversations among academics, students, judges, governmental officials and political scientists.Trade Review’Disciplining Judges represents a new and important contribution to the fields of Public Law and judicial studies. It positions judicial discipline as an essential component of constitutionalism and the rule of law. This marvellous collection of diverse essays probes the shifting power dynamics through which the judicial, executive and legislative branches interact.’ -- Dean Adam Dodek, University of Ottawa, Canada’The constitutional governance question of how jurisdictions ought to deal with allegations of judicial misbehaviour is one that goes to the heart of foundational public law questions about the judicial role, judicial integrity and judicial independence. Devlin and Wildeman have performed an important public law service in bringing together this collection of critical scholarship, which will be the definitive comparative handbook on the issue going forward.’ -- - Gabrielle Appleby, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: Disciplining judges – exercising statecraft 1 Richard Devlin and Sheila Wildeman 2 Regulation of judicial misconduct in Australia: why, how and where next? 23 Suzanne Le Mire 3 The Canadian Judicial Council’s (elusive) quest for legitimacy 49 Richard Devlin and Sheila Wildeman 4 The long march to professionalizing judicial discipline in China 78 Susan Finder 5 Fighting with the ghosts of the past: the discipline process for judges in Croatian law 107 Dubravka Aksamovic and Sanja Mišević 6 Judicial conduct, complaints and discipline in England and Wales: assessing the new approach 130 Graham Gee 7 ‘Belling the cat’: judicial discipline in India 155 Tony George Puthucherril 8 Why is the complaints procedure still lacking in Italy? The difficult pathway towards a more transparent, inclusive and effective disciplinary system 179 Daniela Cavallini 9 Shifting the balance: public perspective and the Japanese judicial discipline process 204 Sarah M R Cravens 10 Disciplinary control of judges in the Netherlands: a vulnerable system 225 Jonathan E Soeharno 11 The politics of regulating and disciplining judges in Nigeria 254 Olabisi D Akinkugbe 12 Weaponizing judicial discipline: Poland 278 Fryderyk Zoll and Leah Wortham 13 Judge and be judged: judicial discipline in South Africa 308 Hugh Corder and Calli Solik 14 Legal process theory and judicial discipline in the United States 334 Dmitry Bam Index
£114.95
The University of Law Publishing Limited SQE - Solicitors Accounts
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£37.99
Cato Institute,U.S. Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works, Why
Book Synopsis Over the past 50 years, the United States experienced three major medical malpractice (med mal) crises, each marked by dramatic increases in the cost of malpractice liability insurance. These crises fostered a vigorous politicized debate about the causes of the premium spikes, and the impact on access to care and defensive medicine. State legislatures responded to the premium spikes by enacting damages caps on non-economic, punitive, or total damages and Congress has periodically debated the merits of a federal cap on damages. However, the intense political debate has been marked by a shortage of evidence, as well as misstatements and overclaiming. The public is confused about answers to some basic questions. What caused the premium spikes? What effect did tort reform actually have? Did tort reform reduce frivolous litigation? Did tort reform actually improve access to health care or reduce defensive medicine? Both sides in the debate have strong opinions about these matters, but their positions are mostly talking points or are based on anecdotes. This book provides factual answers to these and other questions about the performance of the med mal system. The authors, all experts in the field and from across the political spectrum, provide an accessible, fact-based response to the questions ordinary Americans and policymakers have about the performance of the med mal litigation system.
£17.09
