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Together with colleagues in four other EU states, Professor Jackie Hodgson has been awarded a European Commission Action grant of €375,000 for the project: Protecting Young Suspects in Interrogations: A Study on Safeguards and Best Practice. The objective of this two year project is to strengthen the protection of young suspects during interrogation by the police in the EU. The project consists of a comparative empirical study of the different legal procedural safeguards in place in Belgium, England and Wales, Italy, Poland and the Netherlands. Based on these findings, this will be followed by professional training and recommendations for minimum EU rules and best practice.

The study follows on from Professor Hodgson’s current EU funded project, an empirical study of the procedural rights of suspects in police detention in the EU, leading to best practice recommendations.

Jonathan Garton has been appointed a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee for its Inquiry on the Regulation of the Charitable Sector and the Charities Act 2006. Details of the Inquiry, which will consider the impact and implementation of the 2006 Act, can be found on the Committee's website ().

Adam Slavny (Law PhD student)

Information on the WATEPGR scheme can be found at  

Adam’s teaching excellence profile can be found at

Adam has been awarded £500 to be spent on his research or teaching

LAW SCHOOL PRIZES 2011-12

FIRST YEARS:

Oxford University Press Prize for Best Performance in the 1st Year
Francesca Esposito (LLB)

Ince & Co. Prize for Tort Law
Max Jacob (CEL)

INTERMEDIATE YEARS:

Sweet & Maxwell Prizes for Best Overall Performance in 2nd Year
Christopher Ramsey (1017543)

Clyde & Co Prize for Contract Law
Christopher Ramsey (1017543)

Herbert Smith Prize for Euro Law
Benjamin MacParland (100183)

BEST OVERALL PERFORMANCE IN FINAL YEARS:

LLB (3 Years)
Rebecca Saunders

Euro. LLB (4 Years)
James Koessler

GENERAL PRIZES:

Julia Kerr Prize for Human Rights
Steven Hare
(4th Year LLB (YAE))

Giving to 91福利 Prize for Achievement
Joanne Phillips & Michelle-Louise Yembra
(3rd Year Law & Sociology)

On September 15, 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra and was taken to a military base for questioning. For forty-eight hours he and nine other innocent civilians had their heads encased in sandbags and their wrists bound by plastic handcuffs and had been kicked and punched with sustained cruelty. A succession of guards and casual army visitors took pleasure in beating the Iraqis, humiliating them, forcing them into stress positions in temperatures up to 50 degrees Centigrade, and watching them suffer in the dirty concrete building where they were held. Other soldiers, officers, medics, the padre, did not take part in the violence but they saw what was happening and did nothing to stop it. Some knew it was wrong. Some weren't sure. Some were too scared to intervene. But none said anything or enough until it was far too late and Baha Mousa had been beaten to death.
This book tells the inside story of these crimes and their aftermath. It examines the institutional brutality, the bureaucratic apathy, the flawed military police inquiry and the farcical court martial that attempted to hold people criminally responsible. Even though a full public inquiry reported its findings into the crimes in September 2011, its mandate restricted what it could say. The full story, told with the power of a true-crime expose, shows how this was not simply about a few bad men or 'rotten apples'. It shines a light on all those involved in the crime and its investigation, from the lowest squaddie to the elite of the army and politicians in Cabinet.

Rebecca Probert featured on the BBC4 programme ‘Harlots, Housewives and Heroines’ which was aired on Tuesday 29^th May. In the show Lucy Worsley explores the ordinary as well as the extraordinary lives of women in the home. Rebecca was interviewed along with other experts. In the episode it explored whether their lives had changed for the better or worse during the second half of the 17^th century.

Ann Stewart was recently interviewed at a conference in Coimbra, Portugal about her recent book and her work on gender studies.

To listen to the interview

91福利 Law School 8th in Guardian 2013 University Guide

Ann Stewart was invited to give the inaugural Tove Stang Dahl memorial public lecture at the Law Faculty at the University of Oslo Norway on 7^th March.

The title of the lecture was ‘Who do we care about? Reflections on gender , law and justice ‘ based on her book 'Gender Law and Justice in a Global Market' (CUP 2011)

Tove Stang Dahl was a Norwegian legal scholar, criminologist, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1988 until her death, and a pioneer of feminist jurisprudence. She was one of the founders of the field of women's law as an academic discipline at the University of Oslo. Anne Hellum Professor of Women’s Law introduced the lecture. It was attended by leading academics as well as policy makers and activists with interests in gender and law issues within Norway and internationally. The lecture was followed by a very stimulating audience discussion.

On 8^th March Ann gave a guest lecture to staff and students involved with the Women's Law and Human Rights international masters’ programme. The topic was ‘Disability Discrimination by Association: A Case of the Double Yes’ and involved a discussion of Ann’s published work with her colleagues, Sylvia Niccolai and Catherine Hoskyns on Coleman v Attridge Law in the European Court of Justice (Social and Legal Studies 20 (2): 173-190.)

Excellent technical writing on corporation tax abounds but it tends to be inaccessible to public lawyers, political theorists and political economists. Although recent years have seen not only an explosion in public law scholarship, but also a reawakening of interest in interpretative political theory and political economy, the potential of these perspectives to illuminate the corporation tax debate has remained unexplored. In this important work, John Snape seeks to reconcile these disparate strands of scholarship and to contribute to a new way of understanding and conceptualising the reform of the law relating to corporate taxation. Drawing on important developments in public law scholarship, the study combines elements of political theory and political economy. It advances a new interpretation of corporation tax law as an instrument of rule, through the maximisation of a nation’s economic potential. Snape shows how corporate taxation belongs at the centre of any discussion of economic globalisation, not only because of the potential of national tax systems to influence inward investment decisions but also because of the potential of those decisions to shape the public interest that those tax systems might embody. Following public law and politics models, the book looks afresh at the impact of Britain’s political institutions, of the processes of its representative government and of the theory that moulds and orders the values that the corporation tax code contains. This is a timely exploration of cutting-edge issues of public policy.

Dalvinder Singh is invited to speak at a conference, “Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation: International Perspectives and Local Issues in Hong Kong and Mainland China”, May 2012. The Conference is jointly hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Law Faculty’s Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development and the Duisenberg School of Finance, The Netherlands. The aim of the conference is to examine the reforms of the institutional structure of financial regulation presently going on at the international level, and thus policy implications for the local reforms in Hong Kong and the Mainland China.