The IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (the 'Rules') are used in the majority of international arbitration cases, regardless of the administering institution or the legal background of the parties. The updated Rules were adopted in 2010 and provide mechanisms for the presentation of documents, witnesses of fact, expert witnesses, inspections, and the conduct of evidentiary hearings. They are widely accepted by the arbitration community and have become an international applicable standard. That said, the Rules are at times unclear and open to interpretation, leading to potential disputes as to how they should be applied in practice. This book provides a comprehensive, article-by-article commentary on the Rules, pulling together in one volume an in-depth analysis of the relevant case law, reports of the IBA working groups, academic authorities, and the authors' own practical experience. The authors offer practical guidance on issues that frequently arise in practice and advise practitioners on how the Rules can be applied to advance or defend particular propositions. They also analyze how the Rules work in tandem with other applicable provisions, such as the UNCITRAL Model Law, and include practical templates and checklists that practitioners can use to support their daily practice.

Questions relating to anti-suit injunctions arise frequently in commercial practice, as commercial litigation is often disputed in several jurisdictions simultaneously. In these circumstances, a party preferring to conduct its litigation in England would need to determine whether it might be possible and effective to obtain an anti-suit injunction to restrain the other party from conducting its proceedings in another jurisdiction. The second edition of The Anti-Suit Injunction provides a comprehensive update on all relevant changes in the law since the publication of the first edition. The book presents a thorough analysis of the anti-suit injunction in practice and principle, digesting all the case law and explaining the theoretical issues arising from it. Its scope is now extended to include an analysis of Commonwealth case law, which casts a new light on English law. This dedicated and in-depth analysis continues to be the only work to examine in detail the treatment of anti-suit injunctions, examine in detail those effects, and evaluate the case law as it has developed.

The first practical guide to the procedural reforms due to be implemented in April 2013, this essential text explains the wide-ranging recommendations made by Sir Rupert Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs (MoJ, 2009) dealing with the costs of civil litigation. These changes have been described by Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff as representing 'the most significant change to the civil justice system since the Woolf reforms in 1999'. Following the recommendations in the Review, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 was passed and other changes will be implemented through changes to the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions. This is a clear and practical commentary on these extensive reforms, providing valuable guidance and detail on how the changes will operate in practice. It includes useful tables detailing the changes for ease of access and well as selected appendices with the relevant material practitioners will need to refer to.

In recent years, the law relating to entry, search and seizure has undergone major change. Significant legislation, including the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, has led to the amendment and abolition of powers, creating a complex and dynamic legal landscape. What powers are available? Who may use them? And under what circumstances? A practical guide to the powers available in both criminal and civil proceedings, The Law of Entry, Search and Seizure offers comprehensive analysis of the powers available to the police and other officials in light of all the relevant legislation. It contains exhaustive treatment of police powers both at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and subsequent legislation such as the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, including powers of personal search as well as searches of premises. The book also covers the powers of many other officials, such as the HM Revenue and Customs, trading standards officers, and the powers of central and local government officers. Focussing in particular on the most commonly-used powers, but with reference to others which are available, this new edition offers expert analysis of the ways in which powers are typically used, and the constraints which exist in relation to them.

Die Planung und Errichtung von Bauwerken ist ein haftungstrachtiges Abenteuer. Neue verbraucherschutzende Normen erhoehen die rechtlichen Anforderungen an Architekten- und Ingenieurleistungen. Erwartungen zahlreicher Beteiligter mit z.T. kontraren Interessen sind zu erfullen: ein risikoreiches Unterfangen. Birgit Brixius zeigt auf, unter welchen Voraussetzungen, in welchem Umfang und wie lange Architekten und Ingenieure fur eigene bzw. Leistungen Dritter haften. Kurz und leicht verstandlich erlautert die Autorin anhand von Urteilen und Beispielen mit vertiefenden Literaturempfehlungen komplexe zivilrechtliche Haftungsfragen. Hierdurch erleichtert sie es Architekten und Ingenieuren, aber auch Bauherren, Haftungsfallen zu umgehen und einen reibungslosen Bauablauf zu gewahrleisten. Die Autorin: Ass. iur. Birgit Brixius verfugt uber fast zwei Jahrzehnte Erfahrung als Rechtsanwaltin. Heute lehrt sie u.a. oeffentliches und privates Baurecht fur angehende Immobilienmanager an der IUBH, einer internationalen, staatlich anerkannten, privaten Hochschule, in Dusseldorf. Ihr Anliegen ist es, anspruchsvolles juristisches Fachwissen auch Nichtjuristen verstandlich zu vermitteln.

In dem Lehrbuch sind die vertraglichen Schuldverhaltnisse so aufbereitet, dass Leser Zusammenhange herstellen und Hintergrunde erkennen koennen. Schwerpunkte sind das Kauf- und Werkvertragsrecht, wobei ein besonderes Augenmerk den Verknupfungen mit dem allgemeinen Schuldrecht gilt. Klausur- und examensrelevante Probleme werden kompakt dargestellt und durch zahlreiche anschauliche Fallbeispiele und schematische UEbersichten erganzt. Zentrale Aussagen und wichtige Querverweise sind optisch hervorgehoben.

In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the military line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed army officers to arrest and indefinitely detain persons who were interfering with military operations in the area. When John Merryman, a wealthy Marylander suspected of burning bridges to prevent the passage of U.S. troops to Washington, was detained in Fort McHenry, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Roger Taney, declared the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional and demanded Merryman's immediate release. Lincoln defied Taney s order, offering his own forceful counter-argument for the constitutionality of his actions. Thus the stage was set for one of the most dramatic personal and legal confrontations the country has ever witnessed.

"The Body of John Merryman" is the first book-length examination of this much-misunderstood chapter in American history. Brian McGinty captures the tension and uncertainty that surrounded the early months of the Civil War, explaining how Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was first and foremost a military action that only subsequently became a crucial constitutional battle. McGinty's narrative brings to life the personalities that drove this uneasy standoff and expands our understanding of the war as a legal and not just a military, political, and social conflict. "The Body of John Merryman" is an extraordinarily readable book that illuminates the contours of one of the most significant cases in American legal history a case that continues to resonate in our own time.

Der Autor untersucht die Grenzen internationaler Schiedsvereinbarungen im Hinblick auf international zwingende Sachnormen (sog. Eingriffsnormen). Kann die Schiedseinrede mit dem Argument zuruckgewiesen werden, das vereinbarte Schiedsgericht werde eine Eingriffsnorm, die fur nationale Gerichte zwingend sei, nicht beachten? Oder hat das abredewidrig angerufene Gericht die Parteien dennoch auf das schiedsrichterliche Verfahren zu verweisen? Zur Klarung dieser Frage erfolgt eine umfangreiche Analyse zum Umgang mit Eingriffsnormen in der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit sowie eine Auswertung der Schiedspraxis. Auf dieser Grundlage entwickelt der Autor einen detaillierten Loesungsvorschlag aus der Sicht eines deutschen Gerichts und wendet diesen auf praktisch relevante Beispielsfalle an.

Dieses Buch analysiert die praxisrelevante Frage der Verjahrung von Arzthaftungsanspruchen. In einem ersten Teil werden die dogmatischen Grundlagen der Verjahrung dargestellt. Auf dieser Basis erfolgt eine Untersuchung der Voraussetzungen des Verjahrungsbeginns im Allgemeinen. Den Schwerpunkt bildet dabei die Auslegung der Begriffe der Kenntnis und der grob fahrlassigen Unkenntnis des Glaubigers. Zugleich bietet das Buch einen UEberblick uber die Auslegung der Verjahrungsregeln durch die Praxis, insbesondere den BGH. Der dritte Teil des Buches widmet sich den Problemen der Verjahrung im Kontext der Arzthaftung. Es unterscheidet zwischen der Haftung fur Behandlungs- und Aufklarungsfehler und bietet eine umfassende Rechtsprechungsanalyse. Es werden die im Rahmen der Verjahrung zu berucksichtigenden Besonderheiten in Arzthaftungsfallen, auch solche des Prozessrechts, herausgearbeitet und untersucht. Im Wege einer Fallgruppenbildung werden Loesungsansatze fur typische Problemfalle angeboten.

Launching a major new research project examining the principles of succession law in comparative perspective, this book discusses the formalities which the law imposes in order for a person to make a testamentary disposal of property. Among the questions considered are the following. How are wills made? What precisely are the rules - as to the signature of the testator, the use of witnesses, the need for a notary public or lawyer, and so on? Is there is a choice of will-type and, if so, which type is used most often and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each? How common is will-making or do most people die intestate? What happens if formalities are not observed? How can requirements of form be explained and justified? How did the law develop historically, what is the state of the law today, and what are the prospects for the future? The focus is on Europe, and on countries which have been influenced by the European experience. Thus in addition to giving a detailed treatment of the law in Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain, the book explores legal developments in Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, and in some of the countries of Latin America with a particular emphasis on Brazil. It also includes chapters on two of the mixed jurisdictions - Scotland and South Africa - and on Islamic Law. The book opens with chapters on Roman law and on the early modern law in Europe, thus setting the historical scene as well as anticipating and complementing the accounts of national history which appear in subsequent chapters; and it concludes with an assessment of the overall development of the law in the countries surveyed, and with some wider reflections on the nature and purpose of testamentary formalities.

Das Buch bietet eine grundliche, auch ohne Vorkenntnisse gut verstandliche Darstellung des Betreuungsrechts. Es wird durch zahlreiche Falle aus der langjahrigen richterlichen Praxis des Verfassers illustriert. In der Neuauflage sind die AEnderungen, die sich aus dem Inkrafttreten des FamFG am 01.09.2009 ergeben, eingearbeitet und erlautert, ebenso das neue Gesetz uber die Verbindlichkeit von Patientenverfugungen. Insgesamt wurde das Buch aktualisiert und gestrafft. Berufs- wie ehrenamtliche Betreuer, AErzte und Mitarbeiter in pflegenden und sozial beratenden Berufen und in der Behindertenhilfe werden das Buch mit Gewinn lesen, ebenso Betreuungsrichter, insbesondere in der ersten Verwendung, und, last not least, die Angehoerigen von Betreuten.

This book examines the history, principles, and practice of awarding compensation and restitution in investor-State arbitration disputes, which are initiated under investment treaties. The principles discussed may be applied to all international law cases where damage to property is an issue.
The book starts by tracing the roots of the applicable international legal principles to Roman law, and from there follows their evolution through the European law of extra-contractual liability and eventually through the Chorzow Factory case to principles of compensation and restitution in the modern law of international investment.
The greater part of the book is then dedicated to examination of the modern application of these principles, focusing on the jurisprudence of international tribunals under various arbitral rules such as ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules. Monetary compensation as the prevalent form of remedy sought and awarded in investor-State disputes is discussed in more detail, including topics such as the amount of compensation for damage resulting from breach of investment treaties or for lawful expropriation of foreign investor's property, a brief overview of valuation methods, supplementary compensation for moral damages, interest, costs, and currency fluctuations as well as various principles that may limit the amount of recoverable compensation, such as causation. A full chapter is dedicated to the discussion of the theory and practice of awarding restitution in investor-State disputes. The book also covers the general principle of reparation in international law as applied in investor-State arbitrations. The topics discussed cover all the theoretical as well as practical issues which may be raised in awarding compensation and restitution in investment treaty disputes between States and foreign investors.

The rule of law is widely perceived to be a public law doctrine, concerned with the way in which governmental authority conforms to the dictates of law. The goal of this book is to challenge this presumption. The chapters in this volume all consider the idea that the rule of law concerns the nature of law generally and the conditions under which any relationship - that among citizens as well as that between citizens and the state - becomes subject to law. Addressing two major questions, they ask if our understanding of the rule of law is enriched by considering how and to what degree it is expressed or realized in private law, and whether our understanding of the private law is enriched by adding the principles of the rule of law to the traditional list of core private law concepts. Bringing together leading philosophers of private and public law, this volume examines key questions in a little-explored field, and will be essential reading for all those interested in the rule of law and in private law theory.

Die Eigenverwaltung stellt einen Modus des Insolvenzverfahrens dar, bei dem der Schuldner berechtigt ist, die Insolvenzmasse unter der Aufsicht eines Sachwalters selbstandig zu verwalten. Dieses Buch untersucht die Dogmatik der Eigenverwaltung anhand der Begrundung und Durchsetzung von Masseverbindlichkeiten. Dazu stellt der Autor zunachst die Eckpunkte der Eigenverwaltung dar, um anschliessend die Funktionen des Schuldners, seiner geschaftsleitenden Organe und des Sachwalters einzuordnen. Auf dieser Grundlage werden im weiteren Verlauf des Buches zahlreiche praxisrelevante Rechtsfragen eroertert. Insbesondere geht der Autor auf das Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofs vom 26.4.2018 - Az. IX ZR 238/17 - zur Haftung der geschaftsleitenden Organe des Schuldners ein.

Evidence: Text & Materials provides a 'one-stop', readily accessible resource for students studying the law of evidence in the United Kingdom. It offers an exceptionally clear and lucid presentation of the law, effectively introducing and guiding students through this challenging and stimulating subject.
Interwoven with the author's incisive explanatory commentary are extracts from key cases, essential articles, and academic books. Exposure to these materials will help the student to develop a truly in-depth undersanding of the key principles of the law of evidence, and a keen awareness of how these principles are applied in modern practice. Particular attention is paid to the major developments and judgments that have transformed this subject in recent years.
The author uses clear language throughout, in order to ensure the explanation of the law is as clear as possible . A range of textual features encourage the reader to engage with the subject. This exciting and innovative book is the ideal companion for students studying evidence on the LLB, LPC or BPTC.
Online Resource Centre
This book is supported by an Online Resource Centre, which contains the following:
- Regular updates to the text
- A helpful list of web links
- A glossary of key terms
- Guidance on answering some of the problem questions posed in the book

Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit der Problematik der Scheinselbstandigkeit, in deren Fokus jungst auch akademische Berufe, wie die der AErzte, in den Fokus geraten sind. Die Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) geht insbesondere bei Honorararzten regelmassig von einer abhangigen Beschaftigung aus. Hoechstrichterliche Rechtsprechung existiert derzeit (noch) nicht. Die Entscheidungen der Instanzgerichte divergieren, so dass aufgrund des Fachkraftemangels und dem Wunsch der Honorararzte zur selbstandigen Tatigkeit die Lage fur Kliniken besonders prekar ist. Vor diesem Hintergrund arbeitet die Autorin den Unterschied der aktuell im Fokus stehenden Tatigkeiten zur fruheren Diskussion sowie die fur die Tatigkeit pragenden Abgrenzungsmerkmale heraus. Sie untersucht dabei die zahlreiche Einzelrechtsprechung, um zu einer dogmatisch korrekten Statusprufung bei AErzten, insbesondere bei Anasthesisten, zu gelangen.

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive reference to Japanese law with a primary focus on private law, including commercial and business-related laws such as corporate law, contract law, and competition law. It also covers a wide range of related topics, such as the protection of human rights, systems of dispute settlement, and criminal law and procedure. Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition expands on the major reforms and substantial changes Japanese law has gone through since the 1990s and analyses the successes and failures of implemented changes in light of developments since the third edition (2009), by referring to new amendments, judgements, and Supreme Court cases. Providing clear guidance and detailed analysis to help demystify Japanese law, this book is an essential reference work for all who have an interest in Japanese law.

Das Buch befasst sich mit der Teilnahme des Staates als Partei an verwaltungs- und zivilrechtlichen Schiedsverfahren. Nach Darstellung der einfach-rechtlichen Grundlagen wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern gerade die Zunahme von oeffentlich-privaten Partnerschaften in Deutschland auch zu einem Bedeutungszuwachs der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit im Verhaltnis zur oeffentlichen Hand gefuhrt hat. Zu diesem Zweck analysiert der Autor eine Reihe entsprechender Vorhaben und pruft, ob die Parteien fur Konflikte alternative Streitloesungsmechanismen in den Projektvertragen vereinbart haben. Sodann wird untersucht, ob sich die Teilnahme des Staates an Schiedsverfahren im Einklang mit seinen grundgesetzlichen Bindungen befindet. Einen Schwerpunkt der Eroerterungen bilden dabei Probleme der Transparenz.

Die Kontrolle von Allgemeinen Geschaftsbedingungen (AGB) ist bei der Gestaltung von Arbeitsvertragen von erheblicher Bedeutung. Auch nach Inkrafttreten des Schuldrechtsmodernisierungsgesetzes vom 1.1.2002 konnte die vorherrschende Rechtsunsicherheit zu AGB im Arbeitsrecht bislang nicht beseitigt werden. Diese Unsicherheit wird durch das seit dem 1.1.2015 geltende Mindestlohngesetz (MiLoG) noch weiter verstarkt. Das Buch untersucht vor diesem Hintergrund arbeitsvertragliche Formularklauseln nach AGB-Gesichtspunkten und stellt den aktuellen Stand der umfangreichen und sich standig fortentwickelnden Rechtsprechung dar, um hieraus die Wirksamkeitsvoraussetzungen abzuleiten. Aufgrund der Wechselwirkung mit dem MiLoG wurden dabei auch entgeltrelevante Klauseln und Ausschlussfristen neu betrachtet.

This book examines how international investment arbitral awards can be facilitated. It sets out to achieve a fuller conceptualisation and theorisation of awards through a discussion of relevant issues and themes, as well as demonstrating how they can be achieved through a comparative approach that has been conceived and developed with reference to existing deficiencies in the research literature. This contribution is particularly important given the worldwide emergence of investment arbitration as a powerful form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The book ultimately seeks to explore and develop solutions that can be directed to an existing oversight and deficit within the international investment architecture. In considering the advantages and disadvantages of each 'solution', it will work towards an approach best-suited to upholding the interest of the victorious party at the enforcement stage. The enforcement of arbitral awards on a voluntary basis has proven to be insufficient, and this created a real and ongoing shortcoming that needs to be addressed. International Investment Dispute Awards: Facilitating Enforcement therefore seeks to directly influence existing practice on the part of international institutions, with the intention of helping to develop a more effective resolution. The readerships for this book will include arbitration practitioners, policy-makers (including treaty drafters), academics and postgraduate students interested in the enforcement of investment arbitral awards.

Providing a detailed overview of the law of nuisance this book addresses contentious issues such as the distinction between the rule in Rylands v Fletcher and the law of private nuisance; the law that excludes personal injuries from the remit of nuisance, and the relationship between public and private nuisance. The Law of Nuisance also considers statutory nuisance and the extent to which it can be seen to exceed private and public nuisances as well as utility of nuisance as an environmental tort. This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of the law of nuisance, drilling down to distinctions between these different types of nuisance as well as examining in detail the overlaps between them.

Das Buch behandelt den Verjahrungsbeginn nach 199 Abs. 1 BGB bei Anspruchen von AG und GmbH gegen ihre Geschaftsleiter. Ziel ist es, umfassend zu klaren, durch wessen Kenntnis auf Organebene und unterhalb der Organebene der Verjahrungsbeginn bewirkt wird. Der Verfasser kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass fur den Verjahrungsbeginn entgegen der herrschenden Meinung auf die Kenntnis des Organs abzustellen ist, das im Rahmen der internen Willensbildung uber die Geltendmachung des Anspruchs gegen den Geschaftsleiter entscheidet. Daneben ist fur den Verjahrungsbeginn auf sog. Wissensvertreter abzustellen. AG und GmbH unterliegen im Rahmen des 199 Abs. 1 BGB keiner Wissensorganisationspflicht.