1st Edition

New Perspectives on Property Law Human Rights and the Family Home

Edited By Alastair Hudson Copyright 2004
    360 Pages
    by Routledge-Cavendish

    360 Pages
    by Routledge-Cavendish

    The essays in this collection consider the fundamental concepts of property and obligations in law. Ideas of property and of obligations are central, organising concepts within law but are nevertheless liable to fragmentation and esoteric development when applied in particular contexts.

    1: Property and Obligations in Relation to the Family Home; 1: Equity, Individualisation and Social Justice; 2: Family Law and Property Law; 3: Rights in the Family Home – Time for a Conceptual Revolution?; 4: Re-Thinking Rosset from a Human Rights Perspective; 5: A Leonine Partnership; 6: Land Law and the Creation of Disability; 7: The Valuation of Co-owners' Interests in Capital and Means-Tested Benefits; 8: Locating Group Homes and the Planning Law Process; 9: Housing an Individual; 10: Human Rights and Obligations of Confidentiality in the Private Sphere; 3: Historical and Contextual Perspectives on Private Property Rights; 11: State Intervention and Private Property Rights in Victorian England 1; 12: Missed or Misguided? Formality, Land Contracts and the Statute of Frauds; 13: Looking at Covenants Positively, for a Change 1; 14: How Poor Law Rights were Lost But Victorian Values Survived; 15: Property and Obligations; 16: Rapporteur's Overview

    Biography

    Alastair Hudson