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Written by practitioners for practitioners, this definitive handbook covers all of the main aspects of costs and funding issues encountered in the Scottish Civil Courts. It covers the routes to funding, when expenses may be sought, the court's powers in awarding expenses and provides detail on issues including Success Fee Agreements, Qualified One Way Cost Shifting, Pre-Action Protocols, Pursuers' Offers and Tenders, party Litigants, Amendment, Abandonment, Caution and Simple Procedure. It bring...

Betriebsratswahlen sind aufgrund des rechtlich komplizierten und logistisch anspruchsvollen Wahlverfahrens ausserst fehleranfallig. Die Folge von Rechtsverstoessen koennen Anfechtbarkeit oder Nichtigkeit der Wahl sein. Dabei ist die zwischen diesen Fehlerfolgen verlaufende Grenze bislang nur unzureichend definiert, was in der Praxis haufig zu Unsicherheiten fuhrt. Dieses Werk bietet deshalb erstmalig eine umfangreiche Untersuchung der fehlerhaften Betriebsratswahl. Im ersten Teil werden die bei...

This book examines the ethical development of American lawyers against a historical, cultural, and religious backdrop. Goes beyond the rules and statements of professional organizations, such as the American Bar Association, and considers how lawyers actually perceive their responsibility for their communities and the ethical standards of their profession.

This is a book focusing on international and cross border property finance. International Mortgage lending is a particularly complicated procedure because two basic fields of law are involved: the law of loans and local mortgage law. Each depends on the other but they can have different sources of law. Mortgage law contains the basic rules in order to ensure the repayment of the loan. Banks have to be sure that their mortgages are safe, which means that there is a system of land and mortgage reg...

This book provides an expert introduction to audio forensics, an essential specialty in modern forensic science, equipping readers with the fundamental background necessary to understand and participate in this exciting and important field of study. Modern audio forensic analysis combines skills in digital signal processing, the physics of sound propagation, acoustical phonetics, audio engineering, and many other fields. Scientists and engineers who work in the field of audio forensics are calle...

How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons-9 1/2 of them on death row-for a murder he did not commit. This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at societ...

Insolvenzverfahren uber das Vermoegen von Unternehmen sind haufig grenzuberschreitender Natur. Die anwendbaren Vorschriften jedoch waren lange Zeit nationalen Ursprungs. Diese Arbeit untersucht die wesentlichen Modellregelungen zum Insolvenzrecht, die auf internationaler Ebene bestehen, und ausgewahlte nationale Rechtsordnungen. Dies soll allgemeine Prinzipien aufzeigen, die fur grenzuberschreitende Insolvenzen von Unternehmen gelten. Schwerpunkte sind die Europaische Insolvenzverordnung aus dem...

Why are women still at a disadvantage in Chinese divorce courts? Despite the increase of gender consciousness in Chinese society and a trove of legislation to protect women, why are Chinese women still disadvantaged in divorce courts? Xin He argues that institutional constraints to which judges are subject, a factor largely ignored by existing literature, play a crucial role. Twisting the divorce law practices are the bureaucratic incentives of courts and their political concerns for social stab...