Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice

Law and legal discourse both presuppose and produce legal subjects. Views on the nature of the legal subject will constantly shift, therefore, with changes in the law. Contextual Subjects argues that a new view of the legal subject has indeed emerged and that it is now embedded in the social context and relationships. This claim is developed through a contrast of Canadian family law and administrative law as it was in the mid-twentieth century and as it is today.

Robert Leckey argues that it is not only the subject that is contextual. Legal discourse and adjudication have...

Jetzt erst Recht fur die ambulante Pflege von A bis Z

Wer haftet bei Sachschaden? Was muss der Pflegevertrag regeln? Wer zahlt bei Unfallen?

Immer wieder gibt es gerade in der ambulanten Pflege Situationen, in denen Pflegende mit arbeits-, straf- und haftungsrechtlichen Fragen konfrontiert werden. Dieser Wegweiser speziell fur die Fragen der ambulanten Pflege vermittelt die notwendige Sensibilitat fur die rechtlichen Fallstricke und gibt Sicherheit im Pflegealltag: Schnell und kompakt findet der Leser wichtige Urteile und Fallbeschreibungen von A wie Abmahnung bis Z wie...

Topical and compelling, this volume provides an excellent re-evaluation of the 'best interests' test in the healthcare arena; the ways in which it has developed, the inherent difficulties in its use and its interpretation in legal cases concerning the medical care of children.

Comprehensively covering both the English and Scottish position within the context of the European Convention of human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the author examines a wide range of healthcare situations, from the commonly occurring to the unusual, offering a detailed...

Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

The essays in this volume investigate current trends in social,...

Domestic Reforms tells a complicated story of family and welfare law reform within the context of British Columbia's transformation from a British colonial enclave to a white settler Canadian province. It inherited a British legal system that granted married men control over most family property and imposed few obligations on them toward their wives and children. Yet from the 1860s onward, lawmakers throughout the Anglo-American world, including legislators on the Pacific Coast, began to grant women and children new rights. Feminist scholars have long debated the reasons for these...

A Better Way to Zone explores the constitutional and legal framework of zoning, its evolution over the course of the twentieth century, the reasons behind major reform efforts of...