Legal systems: civil procedure, litigation and dispute resolution

In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall.

Class arbitration first developed in the United States in the 1980s as a means of providing large numbers of individuals with the opportunity to assert their claims at the same time and in the same proceeding.

How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das deutsche und internationale Schiedsverfahrensrecht - ein Gebiet, welches nicht nur im internationalen Geschäftsverkehr, sondern auch in der juristischen Ausbildung zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt.

This book critically analyses the availability of environmental counterclaims in investment arbitration presented by the respondent host state against the claimant investor.

This book offers contemporary assessment of the challenges facing international investment law and proposes innovative solutions for reform.

Transnational Construction Arbitration addresses topical issues in the field of dispute resolution in construction contracts from an international perspective.

Sudden Deaths and Fatal Accident Inquiries in Scotland: Law, Policy and Practice considers the unique Scottish system of sudden deaths investigations leading to Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAIs).

Keeping up-to-date and informed about the changes to the Civil Procedure Rules is important to practitioners and students alike.

This book offers a timely and detailed examination of the reality of criminal legal practice today.

Trade liberalization has shaped international economic relations since the conclusion of the GATT 1947.

A sound understanding of legal professional privilege provides practitioners with a strategic advantage not to be underestimated.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the environmental issues raised in the South China Sea Arbitration Awards, which have not attracted as much attention in the Philippines as the "e;nine-dash line"e;.

How do ordinary people access justice?

The Fraud Act 2006 presented a wholesale reform of the pre-existing deception offences under the Theft Act 1968 and Theft Act 1978.

This edited volume presents research and policy insights into the theory and practice of dispute systems reform in diverse jurisdictions.

Caroline Henckels examines how investment tribunals should balance competing state and investor interests in determining state liability in regulatory disputes.

The Law of Evidence in Ireland explores the development of a particular Irish dimension to evidence scholarship, grounded in the constitutional concept of fairness and influenced by the case law of the ECHR.

This comprehensive volume explores the impact of emerging technologies designed to fight crime and terrorism.

Provides academics and practitioners with a detailed analysis of the interface between foreign investment and environmental law.

Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes.

Underpinned by a hybrid methodology (ranging from social sciences to human sciences), this book parses mediation in four perspectives, which stands as an unparalleled methodological approach so far.

Die Konzeption:Schellhammer erläutert auf Grund langjähriger Erfahrung als Ausbilder von Rechtsreferendaren den Zivilprozess praxisnah und verständlich und führt seine Dynamik klar vor Augen.

This book goes behind the closed doors of the garda station, providing a contemporary account of the role of criminal defence lawyers who represent those arrested, detained and questioned therein.

The most comprehensive and reliable guide for consumers--by the nation's preeminent bankruptcy attorney.

Die von Johann Julius Goldmann verfasste Dissertation "Mediation in Übergangsstaaten - Entwicklung des Mediationsrechts in Serbien und Kroatien" beleuchtet die Besonderheiten für den Rechtsimport von Mediationsrecht in Gesellschaften im Umbruch.

Se aborda en este trabajo la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos en torno al art.

This book discusses how UNIDROIT principles are viewed and interpreted in different countries, presenting various perspectives and practical lessons learned.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive institutional analysis of online dispute resolution (ODR), with a focus on the developments in China as well as their doctrinal and practical implications globally.

The book focuses on some of the most pressing issues in international investment law in Asia, such as the role of developing countries, the rebalancing between the investors' rights protection and the host states' right to regulate, the ISDS reform, among others.

This book examines the international investment agreements and the dispute settlement mechanisms contained therein, which bind the Gulf Cooperation Council member States.

Giving the reader an in-depth understanding of DNA evidence in criminal practice, this text explains in clear language how DNA evidence is obtained and how it can be successfully challenged in court to minimize its impact or even dismiss it completely.

Challenging Sports Governing Bodies covers the decision to challenge the actions of a sports governing body and considers the causes of action that form a basis for them.

Dialogue can be an effective response to group and community conflict.

Investment arbitrators rely on sovereignty for their legal status just as investor-state disputes usually stem from disagreements about the role of the state in society.

This volume presents pioneering research for the purpose of developing a common analytical foundation and framework for the emerging interdisciplinary research field of investment control and national security.

Demonstrates the enormous impact that the use of technology is having, and will continue to have, on arbitration.

Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave is a comprehensive and practical text for solicitors, barristers and in-house lawyers practising in employment law, and human resource professionals.

This book focuses on the tactics and strategies used in business-to-business contract negotiations.

This book analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria and China and their enforcement in international supply chain arbitrations.

A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the law of sale of goods with reference to UK and Commonwealth authorities and relevant UK and EU legislation.

The book deals with confidentiality as one of the most controversial issues in international commercial arbitration.