Concerned with the area of illegal transactions, this text addresses practical issues, for example: who can raise the issue of illegality?; must illegality be pleaded? And when can a party recover money or property transferred pursuant to an illegal transaction?

Divided into three main sections the text: deals with illegality as a defence to claims in various departments of the civil law; and examines the forfeiture rule as a tool which one party could compel another to disgorge profits which the other has acquired or would otherwise acquire from his illegal conduct.

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Privity of Contract: The Impact of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 offers a unique perspective of how the new Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 will work in practice &

In the wake of the 2008 banking crisis, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have introduced a new regime of regulatory legislation that will have far-reaching implications for the financial services industry in the UK. This new regime focuses mainly on two areas, conduct and pay.

This book addresses the primary and secondary legislation that constitutes the new and former regulatory regimes. It includes the case law that has informed these changes, and conducts analysis from both a financial and an employment law...