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The South African Street Law programme is designed to teach law to learners from a variety of backgrounds, including law students, school learners, school educators, police and correctional services officers, security officers, trade unions, workers, women's organisations, children's organisations, youth groups, NGOs, CBOs and people involved in training such persons and organisations.
The Learner's Manual provides information about the law and practical advice, as well as problems, case studies, mock trials and other exercises designed to encourage active learner participation.
Written on the occasion of copyright's 300th anniversary, John
Tehranian's Infringement Nation presents an engaging and accessible
analysis of the history and evolution of copyright law and its
profound impact on the lives of ordinary individuals in the
twenty-first century. Organized around the trope of the individual
in five different copyright-related contexts - as an infringer,
transformer, pure user, creator and reformer - the book charts the
changing contours of our copyright regime and assesses its vitality
in the digital age. In the process, Tehranian questions some of our
most basic assumptions about copyright law by highlighting the
unseemly amount of infringement liability an average person rings
up in a single day, the counterintuitive role of the fair use
doctrine in radically expanding the copyright monopoly, the
important expressive interests at play in even the unauthorized use
of copyright works, the surprisingly low level of protection that
American copyright law grants many creators, and the broader
political import of copyright law on the exertion of social
regulation and control.
Drawing upon both theory and the author's own experiences
representing clients in various high-profile copyright infringement
suits, Tehranian supports his arguments with a rich array of
diverse examples crossing various subject matters - from the
unusual origins of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the
question of numeracy among Amazonian hunter-gatherers, the history
of stand-offs at papal nunciatures, and the tradition of judicial
plagiarism to contemplations on Slash's criminal record, Barbie's
retrousse nose, the poisonous tomato, flag burning, music as a form
of torture, the smell of rotting film, William Shakespeare as a man
of the people, Charles Dickens as a lobbyist, Ashley Wilkes's
sexual orientation, Captain Kirk's reincarnation, and Holden
Caulfield's maturation. In the end, Infringement Nation makes a
sophisticated yet lucid case for reform of existing doctrine and
the development of a copyright 2.0."
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Law
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Robert Spicer
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R702
Discovery Miles 7 020
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Law is a radical and accessible look at the English legal system.
It aims to set out a highly critical examination of the English
legal system and legal profession. The politicised nature of the
critique distinguishes the book from others and provides an
alternative approach currently lacking from legal publications. Its
aims are: To illustrate the central role of money in the English
legal system. To explain the ongoing presence of class justice. To
revisit dissenting voices of English law. To discuss law as an
industry. To continue to emphasise the illegality of the Iraq war.
To argue for the demystification of English legal rules. To put
forward realistic suggestions for alternative legal practice.
This book is for anyone in middle or old age (or anyone caring for
others of similar age). For the first time, in one publication, the
reader is taken through all the essential aspects which arise when
considering the onset of one's later years, and eventual death. It
explains, in easy lay terms, the important legal, financial, and
personal considerations which demand attention when old age
beckons, and offers simple and appropriate means of dealing with
them - from Making a Will through to financing and planning a
Funeral. LifeHolder is backed up by a supporting website -
www.lifeholder.co.uk. Together these make for a practical and
valuable reference point.
Tony Robbins, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power has created a 7-step blueprint for securing financial freedom.
Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with more than 50 of the most legendary financial experts in the world - from Carl Icahn, to Warren Buffett, to Jack Bogle and Steve Forbes.
Robbins has a brilliant way of using metaphor and story to illustrate even the most complex financial concepts - making them simple and actionable. With expert advice on our most important financial decisions, Robbins dispels the myths that often rob people of their financial dreams.
Money: Master the Game contains expert advice for readers of every income level, providing guidance through the steps to become financially free by creating a lifetime income plan. This book delivers invaluable information and essential practices for getting your financial house in order. It's the book millions of people have been waiting for.
Regsalmanak: 100 stories uit ons regserfenis is ’n keur uit die rubriek Regsalmanak wat Gustaf Pienaar sedert 2012 op gereelde grondslag vir LitNet lewer. Die 12 hoofstukke se titels is die 12 maande van die jaar, en elke maand het datumverwante verhale, telkens met ’n regsinhoud. Pienaar put uit gepubliseerde hofverslae vir hierdie vermaaklike dog leersame verhale.
Regter Burton Fourie, wat die voorwoord tot die boek skryf, beskryf Regsalmanak as volg: “Vir almal – jonk en oud – behoort hierdie publikasie van groot waarde te wees, veral om die implementering van regsbeginsels op praktiese vlak te ervaar. In hierdie opsig is die skrywer werklik ’n meester. Regsbeginsels word deur die gebruik van keurige Afrikaans verduidelik en toegepas. Daardeur word soms ingewikkelde regsbegrippe vir almal toeganklik gemaak. Derhalwe is die werk ’n hoogs genotvolle reis deur ons regsgeskiedenis.”
The South African Street law programme is designed to teach law to
learners from a variety of backgrounds, including law students,
school learners, school educators, police and correctional services
officers, security officers, trade unions, workers, women's
organisations, children's organisations, youth groups, NGOs, CBOs
and people involved in training such persons and organisations. Two
texts covering the programme are available: a Street Law South
Africa Learner's Manual and a Street Law South Africa Educator's
Manual. The Learner's Manual provides information about the law and
practical advice, as well as problems, case studies, mock trials
and other exercises designed to encourage active learner
participation. The Educator's manual explains how to conduct the
exercises in the Learner's Manual and provides solutions to the
problems.
A volume in Educational Policy and Law Series Editors: Kevin G.
Welner and Wendy C. Chi, University of Colorado at Boulder
Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably
implicate legal issues. Policy debates about testing and school
choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and
mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus
safety, speech and religion rights, as well as the teaching of
immigrant students. Written for a general audience, this new
twelve-chapter book explores these compelling educational policy
issues through that legal lens, building an understanding of both
law and policy. The book's editors are Kevin Welner, associate
professor of educational policy at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. Both
Welner and Chi are lawyers as well as educational scholars.
How to plan and implement tax-efficient investment strategies,
incorporating all the latest budget amendments
Mack explains criminal law in an easy-to-read format, complete with
numerous examples that clarify some of the more difficult concepts.
It is designed for anyone interested in exploring the basics of
criminal law for personal, academic, or professional reasons.
High-profile criminal trials have placed criminal law in the
national spotlight. While these trials may contain straightforward
factual circumstances, often the legal issues surrounding the
criminal charges and defenses are complex and confusing. This book
explains the basics of criminal law in an easy-to-understand format
designed especially for the nonlawyer who has an interest in
criminal law. The book approaches criminal law by discussing basic
crimes and their elements to help readers understand the necessary
requirements for charging and prosecuting crimes. To aid in
understanding many of the concepts, the book includes numerous
hypothetical situations that place some of the more difficult
concepts in an "everyday" context, thereby making them more
understandable. Criminal law defenses are also explored, in order
to give readers an awareness of how and why some of the more
popular defenses are presented in the criminal justice system. The
book also provides an overview of the criminal trial process, from
the arrest to the final verdict. Mack succeeds in demystifying
criminal law by presenting it in an understandable format designed
for the nonlegal scholar.
Knowing how to post bail and get out of jail in fifteen minutes is
darn handy for almost everyone. For a disoriented 18-year-old who's
found himself in a pinch, it's downright necessary. College kids
are naive, eager, and prone to trouble, and whether they're
funneling beer or fighting sweatshop labor, they need to know their
rights. Just logging onto the university computer system, for
example, opens a student to a host of legal questions about whether
the school can monitor her email or her surfing habits or her
blogs. But the amount of practical legal information available to
the nation's 15 million college students is extremely limited and
most students don't have ready access to lawyers. What they need is
a handbook that will cover the issues they're likely to confront, a
guide that is informative, easy to read, and not embarrassing to
have on their shelves. With a retro look and a humorous,
approachable tone, THE COLLEGE STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE LAW provides
legal explanations, strategies for steering clear of problems, and
detailed instructions about how to deal with the authorities both
educational and municipal when trouble can't be avoided. The book
is divided into sections for easy access to information: "The Law
in the Classroom" offers guidance on academic dishonesty, grading
grievances, and professor-student relations. "The Law On Campus"
discusses problems outside the classroom but on university turf,
from privacy rights (whether in the dorms, on a hard drive, or in
the Registrar's Office) to interactions with campus security. "The
Law Off Campus" provides advice on dealing with legal issues that
are endemic to university life such as underage drinking policies,
landlord-tenant disputes, and credit-card use and abuse. THE
COLLEGE STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE LAW ranks with the shower caddy, the
extra-long twin sheet set, and the mini fridge as an absolutely
indispensable item for every college freshman. And every returning
student who might contest a grade, plan a campus protest, or sign
an apa
An updated edition of the first-ever consumer guide to
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newest edition of The Whistleblower’s Handbook brings the most
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includes a new “Toolkit” for international whistleblowers. This
essential guide explains nearly all federal and state laws
regarding whistleblowing, and in the step-by-step bulk of the book,
presents more than twenty must-follow rules for
whistleblowers—from finding the best federal and state laws to
the dangers of blindly trusting internal corporate “hotlines”
to obtaining the proof you need to win the case.
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