The recently enacted Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act of 2015 makes sweeping changes to the insolvency framework of the United Kingdom, supplanting much of the 1986 Insolvency Act, which had already undergone substantial amendment since its original passage. These changes illustrate...

The study examines aspects of how deprivation of a civil right forms when such rights can determine a possible decrease in quality of life. Authors explore this problem in accordance with provisions of the civil legislation and form practical means for application of the right deprivation...

The paper shows that the basis for termination of property relations in civil circulation can be identified by the integrity of the legal system of a state. The author emphasises that right deprivation is used in the existing legislation not only as a measure of enforcement or realisation of...

This article argues that punitive, nominal, contemptuous, vindicatory, and disgorgement damages (commonly referred to as non-compensatory damages) can be collectively analysed as public interest damages because all these awards are justified by violations of public interests in addition to...

Is autonomy “natural”? In Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law, I argue that a legal system of intrinsic neutrality is one over which no political office or branch of government has control and in which individuals have the autonomy to pursue their own interests. In...

This essay deals with one of the persistent problems in the law of negotiable instruments, namely the practice-originated legal phenomenon of so called quasi-instruments (it focuses on quasi-checks and deals also with quasi-notes.) First, it supplies a formal definition for quasi-instruments. It...

Non-possessory secured transactions are key components of market economies. National and international legal reform projects have been advanced to further their use and broaden access to credit. Yet reforms appear to be limited by practical obstacles posed by national legal categories. This...