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Legal Foundations provides a practical introduction to five subjects that are an intrinsic part of legal practice and which must be clearly understood by all practitioners: Revenue Law, Professional Conduct, EU Law, Human Rights, and Probate and Administration. Worked examples illustrate how these topics are applied in practice. Part II (Professional Conduct) has been rewritten to reflect the SRA Standards and Regulations due to come into effect in November 2019.

Civil Litigation is a thorough, up to date and practical introduction to the Civil Procedure Rules and the principles and tactics used in pursuing a civil case. The civil process has been divided into five stages, starting with pre-action considerations, moving on to examine the issue and service of proceedings, before considering interim matters, trial and enforcement. The aim of the book is to equip readers with the knowledge necessary to enable them successfully to navigate their way through these stages. The text has a user-friendly structure and includes checklists and specimen documents which build up into a case study forming a useful overview of the civil litigation process. The appendices incorporate helpful templates, flow diagrams, case study documents and copies of the more common court forms used in civil litigation.This edition incorporates developments in litigation funding, 'without prejudice' correspondence, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), 'compulsory' non-court-based dispute resolution, the creation of the Civil National Business Centre, default judgment, statements of case, Part 18 requests for information, relief from sanctions, allocation, the introduction of the intermediate track, changes to the fast track and multi-track, setting aside default judgment, summary judgment, security for costs, witness statements, expert evidence, Part 36 offers, trial procedure and the new fixed recoverable costs regime. New cases include Diag Human SE v Volterra Fietta [2023], R (on the application of PACCAR Inc) v Competition Appeal Tribunal [2023] and Stoop (t/a Warwick Risk Management) v Johnson [2024] (funding); Jones v Tracey [2023] (without prejudice); Children's Ark Partnerships Ltd v Kajima Construction Europe (UK) Ltd [2023], Lancashire Schools SPC Phase 2 Ltd v Lendlease Construction (Europe) Ltd [2024] and Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] (ADR); Edward v Okeke [2023] (default judgment); Jacobs v Chalcot Crescent (Management) Company Ltd [2024] (statements of case); CNM Estates (Tolworth Tower) Ltd v Carvill-Biggs [2023] and Yesss (A) Electrical Ltd v Warren [2024] (relief from sanctions); R (on the application of Isah) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] (summary assessment of costs); Pincus v Singh [2023] and FXF v English Karate Federation Ltd [2023] (setting aside default judgment); X-R Touring LLP v Javor [2024] (summary judgment); Lazarichev v Lyndou [2024] and Explosive Learning Solutions Ltd v Landmarc Support Services Ltd [2023] (security for costs); FMA v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] (disclosure obligations); Afzal v UK Insurance Ltd [2023], Sycurio Ltd (formerly Semafone Ltd) v PCI-Pal PLC [2023] and Duke of Sussex v MGN Ltd [2024] (evidence); Holden v Holden [2024] (Part 36); Griffiths v TUI UK Ltd [2023] (trial procedure); and Merricks v Mastercard Inc [2023] (costs).

The world of the defective detective was a strange one. Continuing the motif of the mythological hero, this unique detective type emerged in the 1930s in a very imperfect and threatened society. The stories reprinted in this volume reveal just how widely the genre ranged during the Depression.

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin literature, ranging from classical to Neo-Latin texts. Some 4-5 new editions are published every year. A team of renowned scholars in the field of Classical Philology acts as advisory board: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)Marcus Deufert (Universität Leipzig)James Diggle (University of Cambridge)Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)Franco Montanari (Università di Genova)Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford)Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge)Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Formerly out-of-print editions are offered as print-on-demand reprints. Furthermore, all new books in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series are published as eBooks. The older volumes of the series are being successively digitized and made available as eBooks.If you are interested in ordering an out-of-print edition, which hasn't been yet made available as print-on-demand reprint, please contact us: Tessa.Jahn@degruyter.com All editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana are collected in the online database BTL Online.

These essays, written by experts in their fields, demonstrate how necessary it is in the study of the humanities and social sciences to realize the interdependency of the fields and how rich the resulting study can be."

The rituals of religion these days as practiced in the United States on television, have become big theatre, a big show. Televangelism is big business, amounting to billions of dollars each year. Televangelists discussed are Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggert, Jerry Falwell, Jim and Tammy Bakker, Terry Cole-Whittaker, Marilyn Hickey, Danuto Rylko Soderman, and Beverly LaHaye.

This volume presents archeological studies in conjunction with cultural anthropological studies as a means to enhance popular culture studies. Scholar Malcolm K. Shuman points out that the study of archeology must be careful to chart the total human content of an artifact, because archeology "is a profoundly human (and humanizing) endeavor that cannot be divorced from the matrix of human life." The other ten essays cover aspects of archeology and cultural anthropology, and the authors are meticulous in studying their subject in context.

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association found a fixed canon and revolutionized the study of the humanities and social sciences in the United States and around the world by making that canon fluid. The full ramifications of this revolt against traditional academia not finished nor fully understood. This is a record of the goals and accomplishments of the pioneers in this field. The essays recall the barriers that the first pop culture scholars faced and tracks their achievements.

The educational opportunities of the new millennium are endless if our efforts are informed. If not, they will be catalogs of failures or half-successes. The essays in this collection, written by some of the leading scholars in Popular Culture Studies, turn the page on the new millennium to see what are the directions of approach and the opportunities to be gained in recognition of the compelling need for studies in everyday cultures. These essays help chart the course for themes and directions of such studies into the new world that is waiting to be born. Their value is indispensable.

Alabamians have always been a singing people. The settlers who moved into the various sections of the state brought with them songs which reflected their national origins and geographical backgrounds, and as they spread into the hills and over the lowlands they created new songs out of the conditions under which they lived. Also, they absorbed songs from outside sources whenever these pieces could be adapted to their sentiments and ways of life. Thus, by a process of memory, composition and recreation they developed a rich body of folk songs. The following collection a part of the effort to discover and preserve these songs.

This work collects 1600 entries that define popular culture in the USA. Alphabetical entries vary from the inclusive and general (golf, domestic decorations, horror films) to specific individuals, items and events.