This paper deals with common law trusts and their adoption in civil law jurisdictions. It analyses whether common law trusts in fact have a Roman origin and why the trust concept, understood as a matter of property law, ...

This paper addresses the effect of the South China Sea arbitration between the Philippines and China on the dispute settlement mechanism under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The Tribunal’s ...

This paper explores the amendments to the Fair trading Act 1986 introducing provisions preventing the use of unfair terms in standard form consumer contracts. The amendments are drafted in close line with Australian federal ...

In recent years, tobacco has been the subject of increasingly more stringent regulatory attention. At the same time there has been a proliferation of bilateral and multilateral investment agreements, While the former compels ...

This paper provides a critical analysis of the sentence of reparation in New Zealand, as set out by s 32 of the Sentencing Act 2002. The scope of the sentence is examined with particular regard to the recent Supreme Court ...

Section 12A of the Fair Trading Act 1986 was recently inserted following the passage of the Consumer Law Reform Bill in 2013, and came into force on 17 June 2014. The provision introduces a general prohibition on unsubstantiated ...