686 research outputs found
Splitting Hairs?
No full textIs it discrimination? James Marson & Katy Ferris examine the different approaches of the court to mistreatment on grounds of nationality & immigration status
Landscape in Spatial Planning: Some Evidence on Methodological Issues and Political Challenges
No full textIn recent decades, the landscape has given a new impulse to the renewal of spatial planning. This process has nevertheless raised several methodological issues about how to deal with sensitive non-functional aspects in spatial planning tools and procedures, as well as new challenges for policy design. Placemaking, landscape urbanism, and landscape planning do not differ just in scale but in their very idea of public/collective interest and the action that is required to reach them. Reflecting on some evidence from the recent Italian experience of landscape plans and policies, based on direct involvement in practice and academic debate, the author will highlight several main issues at stake today in this field. The conclusions will argue some potentially promising innovation perspectives, on both processes and contents regarding landscape-based spatial planning and policies, as well as some critical conditions of an institutional context
Business Law
No full textMarson & Ferris provide a thorough account of the subject for students. Essential topics are introduced by exploring current and pertinent examples and the relevance of the law in a business environment is considered throughout. This pack includes a supplement which considers the effects of the Consumer Rights Act 2015
Business Law Concentrate: Law Revision and Study Guide
No full textMarson and Ferris' Business Law demonstrates the real applicability of the law to the business world, packed full of up-to-date and relevant examples and case law. Designed for non-lawyers,Business Law is written in a clear and easy-to-follow style which avoids excessive legal terminology and presents the need-to-know facts and cases. Would-be entrepreneurs and those looking to a career in management will find that this book provides the solid base needed to make confident business decisions in the future. Fully referenced throughout and with an accompanying Online Resource Centre, Business Law combines accurate legal detail with strong learning tools such as self-test questions, chapter summaries and key definitions, helping students successfully navigate their way through this often complex subject
Splitting hairs? Is it discrimination? James Marson & Katy Ferris examine the different approaches of the court to mistreatment on grounds of nationality & immigration status
No full textIn Brief: In Taiwo v Olaigbe and another: Onu v Akwiwu and another the Supreme Court had to decide whether the appellants suffered mistreatment on the basis of their nationality (protected by s13(1) of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010)) or due to their vulnerable immigration status (not protected).
The case of Taiwo v Olaigbe and another: Onu v Akwiwu and another [2016] UKSC 31, [2016] All ER (D) 134 (Jun) involved the mistreatment of migrant domestic workers by their employers and whether such action amounted to direct or indirect race discrimination
Cultural and gender politics in a neglected archive of Jamaican women's poetry : Una Marson and her Creole contemporaries
No full textThis thesis considers the gender and cultural politics of selected Jamaican
women's poetry published during the first half of the twentieth century and
seeks to establish that an approach to this poetry sensitive to these issues will
illuminate aspects of their work previously neglected by canonical and colonial
modes of interpretation. The central interest of this thesis is the poetry of Una
Marson, a black woman poet whose work has been critically neglected and
devalued to date. My project is to read Marson's work in some detail, and to
explore to what extent her poetry, which often works within colonial models and
with conventional notions of feminine fulfilment, employs received aesthetic
and ideological paradigms both strategically and subversively. In the belief
that critics of Jamaican women's writing should be as attentive to the gender
and cultural politics of their ways of reading, as of the texts they wish to read,
the first chapter of this thesis engages in a sustained analysis of theoretical
positions and attempts to map out the various problems and possibilities
which critical discourses present in relation to this material. The second
chapter examines the various social and literary contexts in which Jamaican
poetry was produced and received during this period, and the third chapter
looks in more detail at contemporary notions of aesthetic and cultural forms.
The fourth and fifth chapters are structured aromd close textual readings
which explore the variety and complexity of Marson's, and her Creole
contemporaries', poetic engagement with the issues of cultural and gender
identities. The thesis concludes that Marson's poetry questions dominant
notions both of identity and of aesthetics, and consequently that her poetry
offers an example of Jamaican literary expression which moves beyond the
nationalization of consciousness which has come to mark the literary
achievement of this period
Governance Codes and Charity Law in England and Wales
No full textA thesis to consider whether the development of voluntary governance codes of
practice for the registered charity sector in England and Wales has had any material
effect on charity law.
The thesis reviews the development of the codes since their first publication in 2005,
and how they relate to the legal duties of charity trustees, primary legislation that
applies to charity governance, the regulators of the registered charity sector, and
relevant case law. It also looks forward to potential changes in the law and the codes in
the near future.
Good governance has been codified in the corporate sector but remains voluntary for
charities. With public trust in charities remaining steady at a historic 2016 low point, the
codes of practice could be a mechanism to measure and evidence good governance, and
to provide charity trustees with certainty that they have fulfilled their duties.
The thesis considers what amounts to governance, and how governance relates to the
charity trustees’ legal duties and obligations. It reviews the evidence that the codes have
been used by legislators, regulators and the judiciary. The thesis concludes that
voluntary codes of practice have made little difference to date and suggests that the
codes are not seen as a necessary tool for good charity governance
The developments of minimum wage legislation in the United Kingdom
No full textThis thesis presents an examination of the legal developments made in wage
regulations within the United Kingdom. The period that has been chosen for
examination spans from the 18th to the 21st century. This period was chosen for
examination due to the huge social, political, economic and legal changes that took
place within the United Kingdom during these years. These changes saw major
developments made within the field of employment law and worker’s rights in general.
This period also saw the enactment of the first piece of legislation that regulated wages
in the industrial world – the Trade Boards Act of 1909.
This thesis examines the journey that the United Kingdom took since the enactment
of the 1909 Act that lead to the current system of wage regulation – The National
Minimum Wage Act 1998.
This thesis has also touched on various campaigns that have called for a Living Wage
and has assessed what impact these have had on Government policy. It looks at the
National Living Wage, that was introduced in 2016, and examines whether this is a
living wage in the sense of the word
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