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‘Palm Tree Justice’: The Inherent Jurisdiction in Adult Welfare Cases

The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 6, Page 1358-1389, November 2023., 2023
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides the legal framework governing what practitioners can do, and when, where it is believed someone's capacity to make decisions is compromised by a disturbance in the functioning of the mind or the brain. In 2012 the Court of Appeal in the case of DL v A Local Authority identified a lacuna in that no legal regime ...
Laura Pritchard‐Jones
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Promises in Equity and at Law: Proprietary Estoppel after Guest v Guest

The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 6, Page 1504-1516, November 2023., 2023
Under the doctrine of proprietary estoppel, a promise made to another that they will acquire a right in the promisor's land can give rise to a legal remedy, if the promisee has detrimentally relied on that promise. In Guest v Guest, the Supreme Court was asked to settle a long‐running debate about how judges should go about fashioning that remedy.
Alexander Waghorn
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Exploring Sovereignty in Scotland

The Political Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page 26-35, January/March 2023., 2023
Abstract It is often said that sovereignty is ever less meaningful in the modern world. Yet, sovereignty claims continue to proliferate. There are two elements: the subject of self‐determination (sovereignty) claims and the object. Scottish independence and Brexit are two examples, yet they differ in important ways.
David McCrone, Michael Keating
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Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability Byers v Saudi National Bank

The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 276-288, January 2023., 2023
In Byers v Saudi National Bank [2022] EWCA Civ 43 the Court of Appeal examined a seemingly straightforward question: where rights are dissipated in breach of trust, is it a necessary condition of the recipient being liable for ‘knowing receipt’ that the dissipation did not extinguish the beneficiary's rights?
Alexander Georgiou
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Proof of Foreign Nationality and Citizenship Deprivation: Pham and Competing Approaches to Proof in the British Courts

The Modern Law Review, Volume 85, Issue 6, Page 1301-1328, November 2022., 2022
This paper analyses competing approaches to proof of foreign nationality in the British courts, in the context of challenges to deprivation of citizenship. I argue that prevalent British approaches to proof, as on display in the Pham litigation and subsequent cases, are in unproductive tension with a fundamental principle of nationality law, namely ...
Rayner Thwaites
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Suing the European Union in the UK: Tomanović et. al. v. the European Union et. al.

European Papers, 2019
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 345-357 | European Forum Insight of 13 May 2019 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Background. - III. The issue of legal personality. - IV.
Stian Øby Johansen
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Liability of shipowners and classification societies for environmental damage and unsafe working conditions at recycling yards

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 468-482, November 2022., 2022
Abstract This article deals with two liability issues that are highly relevant for value chain responsibility in the maritime sector, in particular for safe and environmentally sound recycling of ships: liability of shipowners and ship managers for unsafe downstream value chains for end‐of‐life ships and liability of classification societies in their ...
Carola Glinski
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La ratio decidendi en el derecho colombiano

Via Inveniendi Et Iudicandi, 2016
¿Cómo se puede construir la ratio decidendi de una sentencia judicial? El escrito propone una metodología de lectura de sentencias individuales en Colombia a partir de la discusión de las tesis del profesor Diego López Medina sobre el origen y función de
Yhomny Urrea
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False Beliefs and Consent to Sex

The Modern Law Review, Volume 85, Issue 5, Page 1191-1217, September 2022., 2022
When, if ever, do mistaken beliefs render sexual activity non‐consensual despite a person's seeming consent? I suggest that existing answers can be improved upon by paying due attention to two things, (1) that valid consent is often given through exercises of sexual autonomy that are, to different extents, unreflective rather than considered; and (2 ...
Mark Dsouza
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El precedente: un concepto

Revista Derecho del Estado, 2016
En este trabajo propongo un concepto de “precedente”, a partir de una teoría analítica del derecho. La hipótesis del trabajo es la siguiente: el “precedente” es una creación de la interpretación que hace un operador jurídico a partir de la lectura de una
David Sierra Sorockinas
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