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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"House of Lords"”.
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Divisions, debates and `dis-ease': the Rockingham Whig Party and the House of Lords, 1760-1785.
This thesis is a study of the political party led by the second Marquess of Rockingham, from the perspective of the Upper Chamber of Parliament. The historiography of the Rockingham Whigs is extensive but underplays the House of Lords, while the literature on the House of Lords is growing, but …
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Assessment of contractual damages : developments in the test for remoteness in contractual damages under English and South African law, with particular regard to the 2008 House of Lords judgement in The Achilleas
The test for remoteness of damages laid down in Hadley v Baxendale has survived more than a century and a half with comparatively little meddling from the English courts. That is not to say there has been no attempt at refinement or clarification. The recent decision in The Achilleas saw five Law …
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The Church, the Constitution, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Role of the Church of England in Developing British Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy
The Church of England (CoE) has multiple avenues to influence British policy regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Constitutionally, the CoE is represented by the Lords Spiritual, in the House of Lords, who raise moral and ethical considerations with respect to British WMD policy. Outside of …
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The Times and the Manchester Guardian’s editorial perspectives on Irish Home Rule and the adoption of referendum debates during the British constitutional crisis: December 1910-August 1911
This thesis is a critical examination of the editorial coverage of referendum and Irish Home Rule issues as reported by both The Times and the Manchester Guardian during the closing stages of the British constitutional crisis of 1911. The traditional and conventional constraints on the House of …
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Overpayment of tax: when does a taxpayer have a right to repayment
A recent decision of the House of Lords in England, Woolwich Building Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners (No 2) (1), is of great importance for taxpayers and has impact in the fields of constitutional, public and tax law. Although a decision of the courts of England, it has great significance …
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Appellate Recruitment Patterns in the Higher British Judiciary: 1850 - 1990
This study seeks to advance the understanding of appellate promotion in the senior judiciary of Great Britain . It describes the population and attributes of judges who served in the British High Courts, Court of Appeal, and Appellate Committee of the House of Lords (i.e., Law Lords) from 1850 to …
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The fraud exception in international documentary credit transactions seen from an English and German perspective
… conduct affects the rules and principles of international documentary credit transactions particularly the issuing or confirming bank's legal position of vis a vis the beneficiary. The inquiry will be taken from the perspective of English and German law, with the main focus on that very …
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Attitudes of nurses to euthanasia
… remains unlawful in the UK, but several high profile cases, such as that of Cox (Regina v Cox, 1992) and Pretty (House of Lords, 2001) have maintained interest in the subject. Attempts were also made to change the law in February 2003, when Lord Joffe introduced an assisted suicide bill in the …
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The Legislature in Immigration Policy-Making: A Liberal Constraint?
… years, research on the immigration policy-making of liberal democratic states has been preoccupied with the puzzle of why migrant inflows have reached unprecedented levels in Western countries, despite popular calls for restrictionism. A common response of scholars to this puzzle is that whilst …
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Strasbourg Jurisprudence in Domestic Courts under the Human Rights Act
Section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 enjoins UK domestic courts to ‘take into account’ Strasbourg jurisprudence but does not bind them to it. Neither does s.2 oblige domestic courts to follow it, imitate it or restrict themselves to it. However, judicial guidance to ‘follow’ the ‘clear and …
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The anisminic revolution in Australia : the reception of the doctrine of extended jurisdictional error in Australia
… revolution" in Australia, that is, the reception of the doctrine of extended jurisdictional in this country, and explores the reasons why a case which has had such a profound impact upon English law - a "legal landmark" - has been almost totally ignored by Australian superior courts. The seeds of …
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Media, politics and penal reform: the problem of women's imprisonment
… been limited empirical focus on the activities of the penal reform network in England and Wales, and less still concerned with those campaigning to reform women’s penal policy. Investigating the under-researched interrelationship between the women’s penal reform network, journalists, and …
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Creating Virginia: The role of John Lederer in the transition of western Virginia from a wilderness into a colony
This thesis seeks to explore and explain the role of John Lederer, a German physician and expedition leader, in the creation of the colony of Virginia. Lederer led three expeditions into the western mountains of Virginia in the years 1670-71, and was the first European to document his expeditions …
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Facultative reinsurance and the full reinsurance clause
… depends upon resolving the fundamental question of whether reinsurance is either a further insurance on the subject matter insured or is a reinsurance of the liability of the reinsured under the direct policy. The interpretation of the clause had not been settled until the recent House of Lords …
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Perspectives on Property and Unjust Enrichment
It is now almost a truism that the mysteries of the inter-relationship of property and unjust enrichment will soon be solved, and, in particular, that there will be a stable set of principles on which to base proprietary remedies for unjust enrichment. This confidence is engendered in part by two …
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Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720
… the socio-economic hierarchy to the crown, House of Lords, and quarter sessions courts in England and Wales between 1660 and 1720. These petitions reveal the every-day and in extremis situations that mothers of the early modern period faced, including soliciting poor relief, requesting …
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The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837
… examines the various ways in which the Church of England engaged with English politics and society from c. 1800 to 1837. Assessments of the early nineteenth-century Church of England remain coloured by a critique originating in radical anti-clerical polemics of the period and reinforced by the …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
This dissertation examines the political career of Scottish-born John Buchan (1875-1940) who, through the avenue of the British Empire, formed political alliances that enabled him to enter into the power circles of the British government. Buchan's involvement in governmental service is illustrative …
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From use to law: the judicial recognition of community customary rights in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The subject of the submitted works and synthesis is the history of the adjudication by the central courts of England and Scotland of legal claims that local custom, established by community praxis, creates legal rights over land that inure to the fluctuating members of local communities. The thesis …
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CHILDREN: Non-Accidental Death and the Lacuna of Prosecution. A Critical Analysis of the Law Commission's Proposals and a Re-evaluation of the Underlying Case Law
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the Law Commission's proposals in respect of their final report on CHILDREN: Non-Accidental Death and Serious Injury, Law Com 282 and to determine whether the proposals are capable of meeting the criteria set by the Law Commission; i.e. that any …
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