Publications
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Chapter 8 Tax and Quacks: The Policy of the Eighteenth Century Medicine Stamp Duty
(2013)
These are the papers from the 2012 Cambridge Tax Law History Conference revised and reviewed for publication. The papers include new studies of: income tax law rewrite projects 1914–1956; law and administration in capital ...
Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 6
(2013)
These are the papers from the 2012 Cambridge Tax Law History Conference revised and reviewed for publication. The papers include new studies of: income tax law rewrite projects 1914–1956; law and administration in capital ...
Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms
(2019)
This timely collection brings together philosophical, legal and sociological perspectives on the crucial question of who should make decisions about the fate of a child suffering from a serious illness. In particular, the ...
Chapter 13 Making Sense of Cheshire West
(2020)
In 2014 the UK Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether three people with intellectual disabilities were deprived of their liberty. Each of these people were living in 'post-carceral' care settings in the community: a ...
Chapter 5 In defense of a conditional harm threshold test for paediatric decision-making
(2019)
The case of Charlie Gard raises a number of serious ethical questions, including how a child’s best interests should be assessed, the role of parents in decision-making for a child, the appropriateness of trying untested ...
The Legacies of Institutionalisation
(2020)
This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards ...
Chapter 5 Is Preventive Detention Morally Worse than Quarantine?
(2019)
Preventive detention shares many features with the quarantine measures sometimes employed in the context of infectious disease control. Both interventions involve imposing constraints on freedom of movement and association. ...
Predictive Sentencing
(2019)
Predictive Sentencing addresses the role of risk assessment in contemporary sentencing practices. Predictive sentencing has become so deeply ingrained in Western criminal justice decision-making that despite early ethical ...