The Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review
Welcome to the Plymouth Law Review The Review is an annual online journal (published in December), produced and edited by academic staff and students at the Plymouth Law School. It aims to encourage and promote legal scholarship and writing on a wide range of legal issues. It also provides a forum for disseminating information about current projects and initiatives being undertaken within the Law School. As such, it includes articles and shorter notes by both staff and student authors.
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Brexit... A Lifetime of Purgatory for the UK’s Environmental Laws - Or is there a Stairway to Heaven?
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This paper considers the prospect that the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union may have a detrimental effect on its environmental protections. Brexit may provide the opportunity to pursue a more ... -
Trashion: An Analysis of Intellectual Property Protection for the Fast Fashion Industry
(University of Plymouth, 2019)Intellectual property law strives to provide a climate for invention, ingenuity and imagination to prosper. The standard theory, featured prominently in relevant international and national IP law regimes, is that copyists ... -
Alternatives to the Common Fisheries Policy? The Future of the UK's Fisheries Post-Brexit
(University of Plymouth, 2019)The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) of the European Union has faced problems relating to sustainability since its conception. Subsequent reforms have offered some limited means of mitigating these problems yet ultimately ... -
Are Corporations Free to Kill? Rethinking the Law on Corporate Manslaughter to Better Reflect the Artificial Legal Existence of Corporations
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This year, 2018, marks the 10 year anniversary of the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. It is, therefore, an appropriate time to review its effectiveness and consider whether ... -
Socio-Legal Research: Looking Beyond Black Letter Law in the Context of Birth Mothers’ Rights in Adoption Proceedings
(University of Plymouth, 2019)This article explores the experiences that birth mothers face in adoption proceedings within a socio-legal context. With analysis of data from interviews with 32 birth mothers synthesised with the relevant provisions of ... -
The conflicts of legal pluralism: Secular law and religious faith in the united kingdom, Pilgrim fathers’ lecture 2018
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Medical Law at Plymouth: A Different Approach
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Criminology on the Buses, How do Structures of Neoliberalism and Culture Impact Crime and Role Performance within the Bus Industry
(University of Plymouth, 2018)The bus industry within the United Kingdom accounted for four and a half billion local journeys to year ending March 2016 (Department for Transport, 2016). With so many journeys being made there needs to be a focus on ... -
A Critical Examination of the Police Use of Tasers
(University of Plymouth, 2018)This study explored the police use of Tasers and how this has an impact on matters such as public confidence, governance, welfare of officers and holding the police accountable. This topic was chosen due to the lack of ...
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