[The law of prescription — prescriptive easements in particular — has played a vital role in English and Australian land law. Prescriptive easements were easily accommodated into a land law system based on possessory, relative and defeasible titles. However, the advent of title by registration in both countries has raised the issue of whether prescriptive easements have any future value or util...

18.1.1 Expert testimony: background The purpose of civil and criminal trials is to decide issues of fact and of law. In England, Wales and Scotland, issues of fact in the most serious criminal trials are decided by juries and issues of law by judges. For several centuries, decisions about issues of fact, in certain cases, have been assisted by experts. As early as 1554, Saunders J remarked in t...

The paper examines the economic role played by poor relief in early nineteenth-century England. A threeequation model is estimated to explain cross-parish variations in per capita relief expenditures, agricultural laborers' annual wage income, and unemployment rates. Relief expenditures are found to be related to crop mix, the political power of labor-hiring farmers, distance from London, and e...

The enactment of a single legislative scheme governing nonconsensual treatment of both 'physical' and 'mental' illnesses, based on incapacity principles, has been mooted in recent law reform debates in the UK. We propose a framework for such legislation and consider in more detail the provisions it should contain. The design of legislation that combines the strengths of both incapacity and civi...

This report provides an overview of the criminal forensic mental health system in Great Britain, that is England and Wales. The report is based on the author's participant observation as a visiting consultant psychiatrist at a regional forensic facility in Manchester, England during early 1994. British law casts a net over a wider population of forensic patients than does U.S. law. There is a f...

as illegal.2 "Unnatural practices" were regarded as a felony in England following Henry VIII's 1533 decree that the "offenders being hereof convict by verdict confession or outlawry shall suffer such paynes ofdeath and losses and penalties oftheir goods chattles debts lands tenaments and hereditaments as felons being accustomed to do accordynge to the order of the Common Lawes of this Realme".3...

Legal issues + Patients’ rights under the Human Rights Act must be taken into account in decision making. + Neither patients nor relatives can demand treatment which the health care team judges to be inappropriate, but all eVorts will be made to accommodate wishes and preferences. + In England, Wales and Northern Ireland relatives and people close to the patient are not entitled in law to take ...

a new edition was brought out at every decade. This proves its popularity among the students and health workers for whom it is meant. This is the fifth edition of the book published by Dr. Wilson with the assistance of Mr. Fisher. In this new edition the contents have been rearranged by adding an indexed list of statutes and statutory instruments, and the readability has been increased by multi...

What are the basic principles of mental capacity law in England and Wales and how do they apply in practice? What happens when an adult has a mental or physical incapacity and so is unable to manage their own affairs, yet owns property in several different jurisdictions? Or becomes incapacitated in a jurisdiction other than where they usually live? The importance of these areas is well rehearse...

of similar trials in Wurttemburg are especially perspicacious on this point. In a completely different vein, Joel Peter Eigen's essay on insanity and English law during the period 1800-1840 also depicts a situation in which criminal or civil law could be tempered, a role that medicine would continue to play nearly a century later, as Barbara Brookes and Paul Roth found in their study of the Bou...