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Only Fools and Horses; Strict Liability and Doping in the Context of Olympic Equestrian Sport

In equestrian sport there are three sets of drug controls. There human athlete doping control rules, equine anti-doping rules and also equine controlled medication rules. All of these rules are heavily based on the WADA ...

Options between legislative intervention and judicial collaboration: improving the effectiveness and coherence of EU law.

Kenny, Mel (Article)

Orchestrating sub-prime consumer protection in retail banking: Abbey National in the context of europeanised private law

Kenny, Mel (Article)

Abbey National contains a knot of domestic, doctrinal and European legal issues and provides a valuable insight into how the Common law deals with the ‘Europeanization’ of private law. The case concerned the extent of bank ...

Organ donation as end-of-life care: Ante-Mortem treatment of the potential organ donor.

Price, David P. T. (Book chapter)

Organ shortage: Ethics, law and pragmatism.

Price, David P. T.; Farrell, Anne-Maree; Quigley, Muireann (Book)

Paradoxical invitations: challenges in soliciting more information from child witnesses.

Childs, C.; Walsh, D. (Article)

This article provides an analysis of the ‘closure phase’ of investigative interviews with children reporting their being victim of alleged sexual offenses. Our focus is on how interviewers ask witness if they would like ...

Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

Parpworth, Neil (Book chapter)

Patient safety is a major challenge for the acute care sector. This chapter considers recent public policy initiatives designed to enhance safety such as the NRLS, PALS, clinical governance, and risk management strategies ...

Payment for ‘ecosystem services’ and the ‘green economy’: green-washing or something new?

Wilkinson, Kate (Article)

Using an ecofeminist critical analysis, this paper examines the extent to which two forest-related payments for ‘ecosystem services’ (PES) schemes maintain a mainstream anti-nature and exploitative conceptualisation of ...

Perceptions of Psychological Coercion and Human Trafficking in the West Midlands of England: Beginning to Know the Unknown

Dando, C.; Walsh, D.; Brierley, R (Article)

Modern slavery is less overt than historical state-sanctioned slavery because psychological abuse is typically used to recruit and then control victims. The recent UK Draft Modern Slavery Bill, and current UK government ...

A phenomenological study of moral discourse, social justice and CSR

Shaw, Julia J. A. (Book chapter)

Although many stakeholder perspectives are concerned with the moral responsibility of business in relation to creating social benefits, evidence suggests that there is a lack of consensus on the nature of those responsibilities ...

A Philosophical Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from Kant's Transcendental Idealism as an Exercise in Life Against Kelsen's Formalistic Legal Theory as an Exercise in Logic.

Shaw, Julia J. A.; Shaw, Hillary J. (Book chapter)

Purpose The modern social and political order is characterised by a range of disparate moralities which lead to a plethora of interpretations and competing perspectives as to what ought to be the appropriate ethical ...

Planning Ahead? An Exploratory Study of South Korean Investigators Beliefs About Their Planning for Investigative Interviews of Suspects

Kim, J.; Walsh, D.; Bull, R.; Bergstrom, H. (Article)

Preparation and planning has been argued to be vitally important as to how effectively investigators undertake their interviews with suspects. Yet, it has also been found in previous research that investigators admit ...