Civil Law (Books and Journals)
- Littler International Guide - United Kingdom Littler Mendelson, 2023
- Saggerson on Travel Law and Litigation - 7th Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2022
- A Practitioner's Guide to Probate Disputes - 2nd edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2022
- Global Policy From No. 1-1, January 2010 to No. 10-4, November 2019 Wiley, 2022
- Federal Law Review From No. 1-1, March 1964 to No. 51-3, September 2023 Sage Publications, Inc., 2021
- Edinburgh Law Review From No. , January 2008 to No. , September 2020 Edinburgh University Press, 2021
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law From No. , March 2008 to No. , November 2020 Edinburgh University Press, 2021
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour From No. 4-1/2, January 2013 to No. 11-2, February 2020 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2021
- Southampton Student Law Review From No. 1-1, January 2011 to No. 13-1, January 2023 University of Southampton, 2020
- SOAS Law Journal From No. I-I, January 2014 to No. VII-I, January 2020 SOAS University of London, 2020
- Adoption Law - A Practical Guide by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2020
- Legal Research. A Practitioner's Handbook - 3rd Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- Planning Law. A Practitioner's Handbook by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- Positive Covenants and Freehold Land by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- Wills A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- Child Care and Protection Law and Practice - 6th Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2019
- Agricultural Tenancies - 3rd edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2018
- The Single Family Court: a Practitioner's Handbook - 2nd Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2017
- Leasehold Enfranchisement Law & Practice by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2014
- La decisión de acusar. Un estudio a la luz del sistema acusatorio inglés by: Dykinson, 2014
- The Law of the Manor - 2nd Edition by: Wildy Simmonds & Hill, 2012
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Applying a Human Rights Lens to Poverty and Economic Inequality: The Experience of the South African Human Rights Commission
The Constitution of South Africa, 1996, is committed to redressing poverty and inequality. This is evident in its inclusion of a range of justiciable socio-economic rights along with a strong substantive right to equality and non-discrimination. The South African Human Rights Commission is a state institution established by the Constitution to support constitutional democracy. It has wide-ranging
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Lessons from Anti-Poverty Action in Ireland: Flexibility, Failure and the Pitfalls of a ‘Fourth Branch’ Model
This article reviews the experience of Ireland’s Combat Poverty Agency and asks what lessons it may have for fourth branch scholarship. The lesson of the Agency is, in part, one about the pitfalls for novel institutions operating within a traditional tripartite model of constitutional government. The article also suggests, however, that the Combat Poverty Agency’s history may point to the...
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Commissioning Economic Equality? Lessons from Scotland
The Scottish Poverty and Inequality Commission (hereafter ‘the Commission’) is a relatively new fourth branch institution with responsibility for addressing both poverty and inequality in Scotland. Nonetheless, it has made important, if modest and incremental, inroads in achieving these objectives, by encouraging the collection and use by government of relevant data in policy-formation; and the...
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Promoting Innovation or Exacerbating Inequality? Laboratory Federalism and Australian Age Discrimination Law
According to laboratory federalism, federal systems can promote governmental innovation and experimentation, while containing the risks of innovation to only one jurisdiction. However, it is unclear whether these benefits are realised in practice and whether states are actually effective ‘laboratories’. This article evaluates the extent to which laboratory federalism is occurring in practice,...
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The Australian Constitution as a Framework for Securing Economic Justice
We contend that, contrary to mainstream understanding, the Australian Constitution provides a meaningful framework for ensuring economic justice, by virtue of its conferral upon the Commonwealth Parliament of particular legislative powers, namely the income justice and taxation powers. We draw on Rawlsian political theory, together with constitutional theory including recent work on...
- Democratic Constitutions, Poverty and Economic Inequality: Redress Through the Fourth Branch Institutions?