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The project to consolidate bankruptcy legislation in Scotland
followed a suggestion by the Accountant in Bankruptcy, an executive
agency of the Scottish Government, which supervises and administers
the process of bankruptcy. Although most of the law proposed for
consolidation is already contained in a single Act, the Bankruptcy
(Scotland) Act 1985 (the 1985 Act) that Act has been so heavily
amended, on so many occasions, that it has lost coherence and
rational structure. Many of its provisions (whether sections,
subsections or paragraphs) are inordinately long; and numbering has
become complex and unwieldy. The primary aim of consolidation is to
make the legislation on a particular area of law more accessible
for practitioners and for those affected by it, thereby saving time
and money. The amendments outlined in Chapter 2 are intended to
remove anomalies, to treat like cases in the same way or to omit
provisions that are no longer of any practical utility. The
amendments are given effect in the Commission's draft consolidation
Bill (appendix 2). Considerations of legislative competence and of
giving effect to certain provisions in other jurisdictions of the
United Kingdom require the various provisions to be divided between
a draft Bill of the Scottish Parliament and a draft order of the
United Kingdom Parliament under section 104 of the Scotland Act
1998. A draft order is included at appendix 3.
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Insurance Bill (HL)
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Great Britain Parliament Special Public Bill Committee; Contributions by Harry Kenneth Woolf
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The draft Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures
Bill is intended to be introduced by the Government in response to
"exceptional circumstances" which "cannot be managed by any other
means". It is complementary to, and if introduced will operate
alongside, the existing TPIMs legislation (as set out in the
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011). If
approved by Parliament, this Bill will allow the Government to
impose a series of restrictive measures, broadly similar to those
available under the control order regime, on certain targeted
individuals. The Committee accepted the need for such measures as a
preventative tool against suspected terrorists but raised concerns
about the role of Parliament in approving their introduction and
the threat to security created by "time-limiting" the legislation.
To safeguard and better monitor their use, the Committee further
called on the Government to institute higher standards of legal
review of any use of this legislation.
With the rate of young jobless in the EU still at nearly double its
pre-crisis level, and the UK experiencing exceptionally high levels
of unemployment, this report calls on the Government to rethink the
way it uses European funding. The Government needs to use EU money
to support the introduction of a Youth Guarantee, rather than
putting the funds towards existing domestic measures such as the
Youth Contract. The Youth Contract had underperformed and was not
popular in the private sector, while the Youth Guarantee had been
successful in other European countries. Five regions in the UK were
highlighted in the report as having unemployment levels so high
that they qualified for additional EU funding. These areas were:
Tees Valley & Durham; West Midlands; South Western Scotland;
Inner London; and Merseyside. The Committee is urging the
Government use the European funding to run pilot Youth Guarantee
schemes in these five areas. Other recommendations made in the
report include: a move away from a centralised management of EU
funds and make the most of local authorities and Local Enterprise
Partnerships, who have links to specialist organisations in their
areas; when it comes to careers advice, the Government should use
EU money to fund more traditional face-to-face careers advice,
rather than focusing on online support; and more needs to be done
to address the skills mismatch in the EU - a particular example
being in ICT
With correction slip dated January 2014
Royal assent, 17 July 2014. An Act to grant certain duties, to
alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National
Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in
connection with finance. Explanatory notes to the Act will be
available separately
Scot. Law Com. no. 212. This report follows a discussion paper on
this topic
Corporations Law: Text and Essential Cases is designed as a student
text but will be a useful book for practitioners seeking a good,
current, concise book on corporations law. Author Julie Cassidy is
a proven, successful author and has carefully ensured that the case
extracts in this book are long enough to be useful to lawyers
needing to cite case authorities in opinions and court submissions.
To mark the 15th anniversary of the convention, this book examines
some of the challenges to the international recognition of
qualifications. The convention is an essential legal text, but it
needs to be put into better practice. How can learners use their
degrees and qualifications in a new country, without losing the
real value of those qualifications? The authors, who come from a
variety of backgrounds, review the policies and practice of
recognition, link recognition to the broader higher education
policy debate and consider the role of recognition in enabling
individuals to move freely across borders.
With House of Commons papers 3-xvii 2008-09
The Law Affecting Valuation of Land in Australia provides a
complete resource for practitioners by containing statements of
principle and extensive reference to case law, including the facts
of each case, counsels arguments, and relevant excerpts from the
judgments. This third edition is current to June 11, 2004. The
third edition contains short definitions of land, fixtures, and
improvements; defines various values with reference to the relevant
case law; explains general principles and methods of valuation by
reference to statutory provisions and case law; describes
categories of land together with factors taken into account in
their valuation; gives extensive treatment to valuations for rating
and taxing purposes and compensation following compulsory
acquisition of land by public authorities; and explains the role
and qualifications of a valuer, including the valuers role as an
expert witness and the valuation appeals procedure.
A conservation covenant is a voluntary agreement between a
landowner and responsible body (charity, public body or
local/central Government) to do or not do something on their land
for a conservation purpose. This might be, for example, an
agreement to maintain woodland and allow public access to it, or to
refrain from using certain pesticides on native vegetation. These
agreements are long lasting and continue after the landowner has
parted with the land, ensuring that its conservation value is
protected for the public benefit. Conservation covenants are used
in many other jurisdictions, but do not exist in the law of England
and Wales. Instead, landowners and responsible bodies are relying
on complex and expensive legal workarounds, or the limited number
of existing statutory covenants that enable certain covenants to be
enforced by specified bodies (for example, the National Trust).
This paper considers the following key issues: who should be able
to create a conservation covenant?; what should a conservation
covenants be for?; should there be public oversight of a new
statutory scheme?; how should conservation covenants be created and
recorded?; how should a conservation covenant be managed? ; what
should happen if there is a breach of a conservation covenant?;
when and how should a conservation covenant be modified or come to
an end?; could any existing statutory covenants be replaced by a
system of conservation covenants?; what will be the impact of
introducing a system of conservation covenants? A number of
provisional proposals are presented.
This recommendation draws upon a number of sources as well as on
the practice of the prosecution services of many Council of Europe
member States that enjoy extensive powers outside the criminal
justice system. A report, prepared in 2008 at the request of the
Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) of the Council
of Europe, not only illustrated the diversity among legal systems
but also showed that public prosecutors in most of the Council of
Europe's 47 member States are vested with duties that extend beyond
the criminal justice system of their countries. Such powers are
based on the various branches of law, with the aim of protecting
the public interest as well as the rights and legitimate interests
of individuals, especially members of socially vulnerable
population groups.
This comprehensive business law text which features briefed cases
combines traditional business law coverage with solid treatment of
regulatory topics. It meets both AACSB legal environment and CPA
exam preparation requirements. Rather than stress the mechanics of
law, Clark/Aalberts/Kinder conveys the complexity of the blend of
factors that occurs when law is made and applied in resolving
disputes. An easy-to-read style spares the students the
impenetrable prose of other business law texts. Liberal use of
flowcharts, diagrams, charts, briefed cases, and samples of legal
instruments helps students learn. Cases are followed by insightful
commentaries of sometimes controversial topics and present and
analyze the actual political, economic, social, and ethical forces
that caused the conflict. A new co-author, Robert J. Aalberts, has
been added for the fourth edition. The revision has more chapter
problems and 67 new cases. The chapter on "bailments," which had
been removed in the previous edition, has been returned to Part V
on property. A unique new "A Note to CPA Candidates" at the end of
every chapter provides invaluable insights and perspective on what
the exam's emphasis and trends have been.
Multilateral and bilateral aid agencies now direct much of their
East Asia activities to so-called 'governance' reform. Almost every
major development project in the region must now be justified in
these terms and will usually involve an element of legal
institutional reform, anti-corruption initiatives or strengthening
of civil society - and often a mix of all of these. Most are, in
fact, major exercises in social engineering. Aid agencies and major
multilateral players like the IMF, the World Bank and the Asian
Development Bank, are attempting not just to improve governance
systems and combat corruption but, implicitly, to restructure
entire national political systems and administrative structures.
'Conditionality' puts real weight behind these projects. If
successful, they could transform the face of East Asia. Defining
'governance' and understanding 'corruption' are therefore not minor
issues of terminology. However, a great deal of optimism is
required to believe that social engineering for good governance
will succeed in either Indonesia or Vietnam within the foreseeable
future. In Indonesia, there is neither the political will nor the
mechanism to act, since the legal system is itself utterly
corrupted. Better laws have been passed, but they fail in
implementation. In Vietnam the problems are somewhat different, but
the outcomes are similar. Corruption is widely recognised to be a
major political, social and economic issue - even by the Party
itself - but few cases are ever tried. The bureaucracy (including
the legal system) and the party are so complicit that reform is
impossible. These systemic problems point to the basic flaw in the
good governance agenda and strategy. A politically powerful
alliance of foreign and domestic interests is necessary. Foreign
multilateral agencies, donors and NGOs are able to set the
international policy agenda, but their domestic allies are
politically weak. In the absence of rule of law, the basic
institutions of these transitional societies remain largely as they
were and there is, as yet, no viable alternative system in either
Indonesia or Vietnam. The argument of this book is that more might
be achieved sooner by much better understanding of political,
legal, commercial and social dynamics in Indonesia and Vietnam, not
as they are meant to be but as they are. Multilateral agencies,
donors, NGOs, business firms and scholars on the one hand; and
local politicians, bureaucrats, business people, lawyers,
journalists, academics, and NGOs on the other hand have much
usefully to discuss. Only out of that dialogue, a dialogue between
the world as it is and the world of ideals, can steady progress be
made. This book examines these problems initially in an abstract
theoretical sense before testing the frameworks thus established
through a series of case studies of Indonesia and Vietnam, two very
different Asian states: one (Vietnam) still socialist but in
difficult transition from command economy to a limited market
structure; the other (Indonesia) embracing a market economy and an
emerging democratic system; one with a Confucian legal and
political tradition, the other not; one with a socialist, the other
a civil law, legal system. The book is divided into three parts.
The first, 'Frameworks', establishes some theoretical approaches to
the problem of corruption and governance (including a East European
example). The second part looks at case studies from Indonesia; and
the third part looks specifically at Vietnam. Relevant legislation
and judicial decisions can be found in the table of cases and a
detailed glossary and list of abbreviations will assist readers
unfamiliar with the countries under examination.
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