The contribution is based on an earlier article, 'Reshaping Commonwealth Caribbean Jurisprudence: From Pratt and Morgan to Joseph and Boyce' (2007) 32 (2) West Indian Law Journal (forthcoming). That article traces the continuity between the Privy Council decision in Pratt and Another v the AG...

This is a review of Lewis Solomon's book, EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN EXECUTIVES which examines an alternative model for business corporations in which the business founders integrate faith in their day-to-day operation of their businesses and define corporate responsibility to encompass shareholders,...

The purpose of this Article is to examine the legislative response of the United States to human trafficking. Section I discusses the factors most frequently cited as contributing to the problem. Section II examines the international authority for interdicting trafficking. Section III examines...

This Article examines the impediments to access to justice individuals face in the current economic climate due to issues of access to legal assistance. Part II will discuss the framework within which civil legal assistance is provided and the impact that the economic downturn has had on it....

Twice in thirty years, the “mad scramble to the U.S. Courts for immediate attachments …” seemingly characteristic of cross-border cases prompted a legislative fix to this nation’s federal restructuring system, with territorialism giving way to progressively more pronounced...

This article limits its examination to three legal approaches to addressing modern-day slavery: the thirteenth Amendment, the civil component of RICO, and the VTVPA as amended in 2003, focusing on both their strengths and weaknesses. Section I examines the applicability and effectiveness of the...

In article management of municipal service as the organizing activity having the administrative contents, which is carried out in the established organizational and legal forms and also as activity of specially created municipal bodies is considered. Control of municipal service is exercised for...

As the debate on a possible new second legislative chamber proceeds both in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Canada, it is useful to note recent amendments to the German Constitution (Basic Law) affecting the federal upper house of Parliament (Bundesrat). Despite all the differences among the House...

The UK Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (CBIR) permits discretionary relief in the form of applying foreign insolvency law. There is no convincing common-law objection to the application of foreign law.The ability to apply foreign law pursuant to the CBIR is consistent with Chapter 15 of...

In 2006 the Delaware Supreme Court handed down a set of opinions, In re Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation and Stone v. Ritter, which were intended to clarify the often invoked, but rarely defined, notion of corporate good faith. In doing so, the Court introduced scienter as a key element in...