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Written by prominent UK labour lawyers, this textbook is comprehensive and engaging, with detailed commentary and integrated materials.
This is an accessible introduction to UK employment law for non-law students. It provides a wide range of topics reflecting the content of employment law modules, and the extensive evaluative material raises the major debates and encourages critical thinking.
Building on their successful cases and materials book, Collins, Ewing and McColgan present an entirely restructured and freshly written new textbook on employment law. Comprehensive and engaging, it combines detailed analysis and commentary on the law with short contextual extracts to fully equip the labour law student. Carefully balancing clear exposition of legal principles with critical and scholarly analysis, this is the definitive textbook on the subject written by the UK's foremost employment law scholars. The book's 20-part structure maps logically onto either a full or half module employment law course. Chapter introductions and conclusions and an uncluttered text design carefully guide the student through the material. Innovative case studies show the law 'in action' and discussion of the globalised workplace gives the work a contemporary feel. Put simply, this is required reading for all students of the subject.
The author elucidates the general legal rules and principles of the law of unfair dismissal and offers an account of the context in which the idea of protection from unfair dismissal has developed and currently operates.
Using an interdisciplinary approach involving economics, sociology and law, Regulating Contracts explores fundamental questions about the purposes and effects of legal regulation of contractual relationships. What kind of social relation do contracts create, or, more precisely, how do contracts govern social interaction. How are contractual relations, or more generally, markets constructed? Does the law play a significant role in particular practices, and in particular, what do lawyers, courts, and legal sanctions contribute to the contractual social order? For what distributive purposes does the law attempt regulation? The controversial conclusions of this study suggest that the law plays a...
This volume provides an advanced analysis of the law of contract for undergraduate courses covering the law of contract and the law of obligations.
Business networks consist of several independent businesses that enter into interrelated contracts, conferring on the parties many of the benefits of co-ordination achieved through vertical integration in a single firm, without creating a single integrated business such as a corporation or partnership. Retail franchises are one such example of a network, but the most common instance is a credit card transaction between a customer, retailer, and the issuer of the card. How should the law analyse this hybrid economic phenomenon? It is neither exactly a market relationship - because that overlooks the co-ordination, relational qualities and interdependence of the contracts - nor is it a type of...
The first book to explore the philosophical foundations of labour law in detail, including topics such as the meaning of work, the relationship between employee and employer, and the demands of justice in the workplace.
In 1977, Glasgow gangland leader Hugh Collins was sentenced to life imprisonment. With a reputation as one of Scotland's most feared and violent prisoners he was eventually transferred to Barlinnie's Special Unit where he took up sculpture and writing.Walking Away is the second part of Hugh Collins' autobiography, and takes up this fascinating and controversial figure's story from the day of his release in 1992, when he was, in how own words, "a time-bomb waiting to go off". It is a painfully raw and candid account of a life coming to terms with his troubled, bloodstained past as he struggles to cope with freedom in the full glare of the media.