Andrew McIntyre – författare

Written by an expert team of authors, this clear and comprehensive guide explains all the basic principles relating to Scots criminal law, taking account of ongoing changes in substantive law, including the continuing influence of human rights. This well-established text is an essential reference source for both law students and legal practitioners and includes coverage of:- developments in case law and statute reflecting the prominence of statutory offences- analysis of the meaning of ‘wicked’ in the context of recklessness- an examination of perjury- reflections upon diminished responsibility- the interaction between provocation and self-defence - the continuing influence of the European Convention on Human Rights and related jurisprudence- an analysis of how Scotland has sought to address the right to die issue and the age of criminal responsibility The main common law and statutory offences are covered under the following sections: - Offences against the person including homicide and sexual offences- Social protection offences including the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and road traffic offences- Property offences including theft, robbery, embezzlement and malicious mischief- Offences against the state and administration of justice including contempt of court and interfering with the course of justiceThis title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Scots Criminal Law and Scots Law Student online services.

What happens when the acquisition of a business goes wrong? What can an injured buyer do to seek redress? How can sellers defend such claims?Fraud and Breach of Warranty: Buyers’ Claims and Sellers’ Defences brings together a combination of commercial insight and deep industry expertise, providing expert guidance on how to make and defend claims relating to the sale of businesses.Completely revised and updated in line with voluminous recent case law, the Second Edition contains new and revised material covering:- Material adverse change provisions, including in the context of Covid-19- Notification clauses- Exclusions of goodwill claims- Earnout payment claims- Misrepresentation through due diligence responses- Fraud of an agent - Quantum of loss in breach of warranty and fraud- Rescission of an SPAWritten by leading commercial barristers, this book offers in-depth and practical answers to frequently asked questions and is essential reading for anyone involved in buying or selling a business, with particular appeal to commercial law practitioners, litigators, arbitrators, in-house counsel and contract drafters.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional’s Company and Commercial Law online service.

Following the release of ChatGPT, public fascination with the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has drastically intensified, stimulating an unprecedented rise in the financing, development and deployment of AI technologies across society. However, the current hype around AI also presents uncomfortable questions about the role of human agency in culture, particularly in practices of art and communications where the arrival of convincing AI-generated media has raised the prospect that human authors and artists may be sidelined or replaced. "Art and Authorship in the AI Spring" takes a step back from the modern situation to, instead, focus on the decade preceding the release of ChatGPT when our current understanding of AI was only beginning to take form. During this brief period of rapid technological development, many artists were already experimenting with emerging AI technologies as a means of probing traditional notions of authorship from the production of AI-generated paintings, poetry and films to more experimental practices utilizing deepfake techniques, biometric recognition systems and large language models. By critically analysing various instances of AI-generated art and media during this period, "Art and Authorship in the AI Spring" explores this central question of authorship through the unique and often overlooked media philosophy of Vilém Flusser that looks beyond aesthetics to instead consider the technical conditions of AI technology itself. In reconsidering this recent history of AI-generated media from this perspective, this book aims to shed new light on significant ongoing debates around the societal impacts of AI technologies today.“We urgently need more interventions like McIntyre’s that remind us of the short yet already strangely forgotten history of generative AI amid today’s relentless hype. This book recovers the past decade of developments that too often vanish from public debate, to understand where we are and how we got here. It resists narrowing the ethical frame of generative AI to solely legal terms, instead opening up its wider societal and philosophical implications. We can all learn from McIntyre’s creative conceptualisations, such as “weird media”, to better understand how generative AI reshapes authorship, creativity and our cultural consumption and production.”- Tobias Blanke, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Humanities, University of Amsterdam