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Human Rights Case DigestHuman Rights Law JournalButterworths Human Rights CasesJournals covering issues of European human rights law include:European Human Rights Law ReviewHuman Rights Law JournalNetherlands Quarterly of Human RightsHuman Rights QuarterlyInternational and Comparative Law QuarterlyPublic LawLAW OF TAXATIONThis half-paper provides an introduction to and conceptual framework for the dynamic area of tax law. The focus is on abasic understanding of how the system works rather than on the detailed rules.The subject will be attractive to and valuable for prospective commercial and private client lawyers and, particularly,those taking the LPC. There is no area of commercial law or personal estates law that is not overlaid with important taxissues. The purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding and appreciation of when important tax issuesarise and the likely outcome.1. Inheritance Tax (excluding trusts)2. Income Tax general principles, total income, tax rates3. Employment income4. Business income5. Capital gains tax6. Taxation of companies and dividends7. Tax minimisation and avoidanceREADINGText:Tiley and Collison’s UK Tax Guide (latest ed)Basic:Morse and Williams, Davies: Principles of Tax Law (latest ed)Backup:Tiley, Revenue Law (6th ed 2008)Lymer and Oats, Taxation Policy and Practice (latest ed)Lee, Revenue Law: Principles and Practice (latest ed)For reference:68
Whiteman, Income TaxWhiteman, Capital Gains TaxMcCutcheon, Inheritance TaxStatute Books:Butterworths Yellow Tax Handbook (latest ed) orCCH Tax Statutes (latest ed)Note: Students will be provided with extracts from relevant statutes for exam purposes and are not expected to purchasethese statutes.HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION1. Medieval structures of government: kingship, royal administration, parliament, Magna Carta.2. State-building in the 16th and 17th centuries: royal and parliamentary sovereignty, conciliar administration, Welshunion, confessional government, the Glorious Revolution.3. Constitutionalism during the ‘long’ 18th century: ministerial and royal executives, Anglicanism and the state,Scottish and Irish unions, parliamentary reform.READINGSuggested texts:Lyon, Constitutional History of the United Kingdom (2003)Background texts:Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086-1272 (1987)Brown, The Governance of Late Medieval England 1272-1461 (1989)Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714 (2004)Hill, The Early Parties and Politics in Britain 1688-1832 (1996)Students will be directed to specific secondary materials in conjunction with particular lecture topics. Relevant originalmaterials will be provided.PERSONAL PROPERTY1. The definition and nature of property and of personal property; the range of proprietary interests which can becreated at law and in equity; specific assets distinguished from fungibles and funds; proprietary character ofincorporeal property (choses in action); introduction to the phenomenon of de-physicalisation of property, explainedby reference to money and corporate securities.2. The character of money explained from the perspectives of economic and legal history; economic conceptions ofmoney and their status in private law; concepts of payment, discharge and legal tender.69
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ContentsGeneral InformationOfficers
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Settlement of International Dispute
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Faculty AdministrationFaculty Offic
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The Faculty of LawLaw has been stud
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The LLM Degree. This degree is awar
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Opening Hours:Full Term: Monday to
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Rules Made by the Information Strat
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The Lauterpacht Centre for Internat
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Page 40 and 41: Hedley, Tort (6th ed 2008)Weir, An
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Teaching Members of the Faculty of
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MC Elliott, MA, PhD (Cantab); St Ca
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RA Melikan, BA (Mich), JD, MA (Chi)
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BD Sloan, MA, LLM (Cantab); King’
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Law Teachers in the Department of L
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Murray Edwards College. Dr S Turenn
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