Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Department of Health Service Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Emergency Department, Bristol Roy...

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about, for example, how the principle of'substituted judgement' and the 'inquisitorial' mode of hearing are working out in practice. Creyke's concern about the substitute payee schemes in Australia echo the problems of those operating in England and Wales. The Law Commission have proposed reforms to the appointee scheme. Given the many thousands of people in Britain who are dependent upon someo...

This review states that the two volumes, “World Litigation law and Practice” and Unit B ”Europe” are an up-to-date publication and thus a welcomed event. It goes on to explain how the two studies attempt to provide not only details as to the civil procedure of the country concerned, but also information concerning the general institutional background in which civil litigation takes place. After...

BACKGROUND The inverse care law proposing that medical services are distributed inversely to population health needs, and that this law operates more completely where medical care is most exposed to market forces, was first suggested by Tudor Hart in 1971. This paper considers whether an inverse care law can be observed for the provision of informal care as well as for medical care. AIM Using...

Despite its practical importance to upwards of 40,000 people annually, the framework governing weddings law in Ireland has received minimal academic attention or critique. This article seeks address this gap literature, placing a particular focus on rules wedding venues. In effort, it draws Law Commission for England and Wales’ comprehensive Getting Married: A Consultation Paper Weddings publis...