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ONCE UPON A COUNTRY. A PALESTINIAN LIFE
Get PDFSari Nusseibeh (with Anthony David) (London: Halban, 2009 (2nd edn) 534 pp ISBN 9781905559145This is the autobiography of an academic whose enthralling story is about far more than merely himself. Sari Nusseibeh is a philosopher who is President of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His family have been in that city for well over a thousand years – there are stories here about the (female) ancestor who was a first follower of the Prophet and the 7th century relative who was installed by Caliph Omar as the first Moslem high judge of Jerusalem and given custody of the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This key has mattered a lot to the Nusseibehs; give or take the occasional Crusade, they have held it through the centuries, the Moslem doorkeeper to the fighting Christians on the site of Christ’s crucifixion. Nusseibeh is hilarious on this as he is on so much else in the first half of the book. Dominating these early pages is his extraordinary father: lawyer; tennis player of renown; Cambridge graduate; fighter for the Palestinians (he was shot in the 1948 war and lost a leg); and then (during the Jordanian hegemony that followed that national catastrophe) governor of Jerusalem, Jordan’s Ministry of Defence and her Ambassador to the United Kingdom. His funeral in 1986 ‘turned into the largest political demonstration in Jerusalem since the occupation’ – the ‘crowd like water from a fire hose aimed into a maze’
RAISING OUR HEADS ABOVE THE PARAPET? SOCIETAL ATTITUDES TO ASSISTED SUICIDE AND CONSIDERATION OF THE NEED FOR LAW REFORM IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Get PDFDeath has been described as the last taboo. It is unsurprising therefore that those individuals who openly proclaim to desire death find themselves headline news. In October 2008, Debbie Purdy, who suffers with multiple sclerosis, challenged the legality of the failure of the Director of Public Prosecutions to issue guidance as to the circumstances in which individuals will or will not be prosecuted for assisting another person to commit suicide. The judgment was pronounced barely two weeks after injured rugby player Dan James travelled with his parents to Switzerland, to secure his death with the help of the local group, Diginitas. James was reportedly the youngest of the 100 Britons who have travelled to Dignitas to find the ‘sanctuary of death.’ However, Sky TV’s screening of the assisted death of Craig Ewert in December was no doubt the most controversial event of the year in this respect.
R v Clinton and others
Get PDFSEXUAL INFIDELITY AND LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL: CONTEXT OR CAMOUFLAGE?R v Clinton and others involved three appeals from trial on various matters concerning the “loss of control” partial defence to murder created by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 („the Act‟).1 This case commentary is concerned with the appeal of Jon Jacques Clinton, as it addressed the ambit of the Act‟s controversial exclusion of sexual infidelity from the grounds upon which a defendant can base her loss of self-control.2 The Court of Appeal‟s decision (Lord Chief Justice, Henriques J, Gloster J) is not uncontroversial itself, since it has significantly reduced the potential ambit of this exclusion
The Challenges Facing the Law Commission in the 1990s
Get PDFThe Challenges Facing the Law Commission in the 1990
THE NATURAL LAW FOUNDATIONS OF LORD DENNING'S THOUGHT AND WORK
Get PDFTHE NATURAL LAW FOUNDATIONS OF LORD DENNING'S THOUGHT AND WOR
COMBATING CORRUPTION: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE USE OF THE OFFENCE AND THE TORT OF MISCONDUCT/MISFEASANCE IN A PUBLIC OFFICE
Get PDFAfter several years of controversy and uncertainty, on 8 April 2010 the Bribery Act 2010 received the Royal Assent. The Act swept away the unsatisfactory, fragmented and complex corruption offences at common law and under the Prevention of Corruption Acts 1889-1916 and in their place created two general corruption offences (the offence of bribing another person and the offence of being bribed, each of which may be committed in the public or private sector), a discrete offence of the bribery of a foreign public official and an entirely new offence of failure by a commercial organisation to prevent a bribe being paid
The Family Law Reform Act 1987 - Useful Reform but an Unhappy Compromise?
Get PDFThe Family Law Reform Act 1987 - Useful Reform but an Unhappy Compromise
DOUBLE INVOICING IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: THE FRAUD AND NULLITY EXCEPTIONS IN LETTERS OF CREDIT – ARE THE AMERICA ACCORD AND THE UCP 500 CROOKS’ CHARTERS!?
Get PDFThis article: First, (a) re-examines the fraud exception rule in letters of credit transactions with specific reference to the United City Merchants v Royal Bank of Canada (the American Accord) and against the background of a recent commonwealth decision accepting nullity as a new exception; (b) evaluates its impact on over/under invoicing under the WTO Agreement on Pre-shipment Inspection of Goods in International Trade (PSI); and (c) assesses its implication on the IMF Agreement on Exchange Control implemented in the UK by the IMF Agreement Regulations 1946 made under the IMF Agreement Acts 1945 as amended. Secondly, it argues that the current UCP 500 is outmoded and inadequate to meet current needs and is therefore in need of urgent revision. Thirdly, it recommends, inter alia, that in accordance with the said commonwealth decision, fraud by third parties should be recognised by English law as an independent and separate nullity exception. Fourth, and finally, it concludes that the status-quo acts as an unwitting Crooks’ Charter for money launderers, documentary fraudsters and other white collar crimes
