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This article looks at New Zealand's conduct of business rules for financial advisers. It compares New Zealand's rules to conduct of business rules applicable in the United Kingdom and Australia. There are major respects in which New Zealand's conduct of business rules fall behind best practice,...
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of EU's economic constitution has recently neglected the weight of ‘the social' in the societies of post-war Europe, a …
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Constitutional constraints are often designed with crisis in mind: Framers wish to constrain the exercise of power precisely in those circumstances in which policymakers will be tempted to take actions that may violate underlying normative commitments. These constraints are only as strong as the...
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The financial crisis is arguably the most significant challenge to the EU since the inception of the EEC. It has generated an array of political, legal and institutional responses the complexity of which is daunting in itself. The current paper considers these developments, and places them...
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Insisting on defining a minimum core content as a prerequisite for the justiciability of social rights is an updated aspiration, which risks the very enforceability of these rights amidst global economic crisis, at the very hour when they are needed the most. Proportionality not only creates the...
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This discussion of the ECJ in the context of a project on political representation in the EU responds to the Court's changing functions in the integration process and also to the critique which the exercise of this function has provoked in recent years after the Court objected to constitutional...
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The financial crisis, and resulting crisis with the Euro, has had profound effects on the EU, and its Member States, even those that do not form part of the Euro zone. It has generated a welter of measures to combat the ‘problem' and this flurry of initiatives has not yet come to an end, nor...
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Constitution and the European constitutional theory were tested. A number of rather serious issues were raised concerning the … interpretation of the Constitution, the relationship between national Constitution, EU legal order and international law and the … Constitution itself, either through informal constitutional changes or through the formal amendment process. The main finding of …
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The Lisbon Treaty was supposed to mark the end of an almost‐decade‐long period of treaty reform. After the tumult of the failed Constitutional Treaty, the settlement it imposed struck a sustainable balance between the competing forces of centralisation and the diffusion that characterise...
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