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Housing rights - the new benchmarks for housing policy in Europe?
(American Bar Association, 2005-11)Rights to housing are regularly proposed as the solution to poor housing and homelessness by advocates and campaigning organizations. This approach is viewed as having the critical international acclaim and legal clarity ... -
Challenges in Applying Human Rights Law to Armed Conflict
(International Review of the Red Cross, 2005-12)The debates over the relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, have often focused on the question of whether human rights law continues to apply during armed conflict, and if ... -
A Flood of Light: Comments on the Interpretation Act 2005
(Judicial Studies Institute, 2006)The Interpretation Act 2005 consolidates previous legislation and contains some new provisions inspired by a Law Reform Commission report. These may bring about a subtle but significant change in the methods of statutory ... -
Review of the Legal Framework Applicable to Marine Protected Areas as a Tool for Ecosystem Conservation & Fisheries Management
(2006)This chapter reviews the legal basis in a number of international and European legal instruments underpinning the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a tool for ecosystem conservation and fisheries ... -
The European approach to integrated management: are there lessons for the China Seas region?
(Martinus Nijhoff, 2006)The terrible events and human tragedy of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, brought home to the world the unpredictable nature of the ocean in relation to affairs of mankind. It was a timely reminder ... -
Review of the legal framework applicable to MPAs as a tool for ecosystem conservation & fisheries management
(AREA, 2006-02)A review of the legal basis in a number of international and European legal instruments underpinning the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a tool for ecosystem conservation and fisheries management. The ... -
Charging for public participation: fees for submissions or observations on Environmental Impact Assessment
(SAGE Publications, 2007)In case C-216/05, Commission v Ireland, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Irish legislation which required the payment of a fee by those making submissions regarding an environmental impact assessment (EIA) ... -
Corr v IBC - Civil liability and employee suicide
(Clarus Press, 2007)The English Court of Appeal decision in Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd1 held that an employer could be found liable for the suicide of an employee. 2 Sedley and Wilson LJJ (with Ward LJ dissenting) overturned the trial court ... -
Irish matrimonial property division in practice: a case study
(Oxford University Press, 2007)This article analyses patterns of property division on marital breakdown in Ireland. At present, little information is available on the operation of marital breakdown legislation (the Family Law Act 1995 and the Family Law ... -
Imputed Criminal Liability and the Goals of International Justice
(Leiden Journal of International Law, 2007)This article considers the suitability of employing particular modes of imputed criminal liability in trials before international criminal tribunals. It focuses specifically on the doctrines of joint criminal enterprise ... -
Access to justice under the Århus Convention and Irish judicial review
(SAGE Publications, 2008)The case of Sweetman v An Bord Pleanála, decided in the High Court of Ireland in April 2007, raises a number of interesting issues regarding the scope of Directive 2003/35/EC on public participation in respect of the ... -
Possible Irish responses to climate change
(Kluwer Law International, 2008)Climate change is becoming a very important political, social and economic issue. Recent weeks have seen the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, with predictions of ... -
Paternity fraud and the tort of deceit
(Clarus Press, 2008)Recent cases in England, Australia and the United States have seen efforts to expand the tort of deceit to allow a remedy in cases of paternity fraud. The tort of deceit has traditionally applied to commercial transactions ... -
Housing rights: positive duties and enforceable rights at the European Court of Human Rights.
(Sweet & Maxwell, 2008)Discusses the European Court of Human Rights' development of a human rights perspective on positive obligations in the context of housing. Traces the move from traditional liberal concepts of negative rights, the influence ... -
Globalization and housing rights
(Indiana University Press, 2008-06)This article seeks to explore the relationship between the growing phenomenon of globalization and the field of housing rights. I begin with a general description of globalization, and move on to discuss its effect on ... -
Virtual rights? property in online game objects and characters
(Taylor & Francis, 2008-07-18)The new industry of Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) brings together two sets of fictions: the interactive stories of shared computer games and the legal devices of intellectual property. In these ... -
The Irish national climate change strategy: new laws, future policies?
(Round Hall, 2009)This paper is an overview of climate change law and policy in Ireland. It sketches the background to the international agreements covering climate change emissions. It also gives a brief summary of relevant European ... -
Legal briefing: Travellers
(Centre for Housing Research, 2009)