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16 produkter
Taking of Hong Kong
Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters
Inbunden, 1999
2666 kr
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Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by …
Miscellany of Disputes
Inbunden, 2000
258 kr
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While there have been innumerable collections of humour in the courts, this is the first anthology of over 80 stories about disputes resolved without the aid of litigation. It reveals rich sources from old and new China, ancient Greece, Rome, Aesop's fables, medieval England and French vaudeville, …
Ancient Greek Arbitration
Inbunden, 2001
456 kr
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Starting with the first substantial body of primary sources, the epics of Homer and Hesiod in the 7th century, and ending with the fall of Egypt to the Romans in 30BC, this volume describes and analyzes the development of mediation, arbitration and other ways of resolving disputes, other than …
Charitable Arbitrator
How to Mediate and Arbitrate in Louis XIV's France
Inbunden, 2002
511 kr
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Printed first in 1666, this source is both an instruction manual and plea for reform, comparing the positive potential of mediation and arbitration with the chicanery of contemporary litigation. It describes in detail some arbitrations of the period, with forms and precedents, practical examples …
Roman Arbitration
Av Derek Roebuck, Bruno De Fumichon
Inbunden, 2004
456 kr
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The authors provide the story of arbitration in Rome and its colonies from the earliest times to the codification of Justinian, with translations of all the sources.
Disputes and Differences
Comparisons in Law, Language and History
Inbunden, 2010
456 kr
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Thirty-eight papers written over fifty years show that anyone who wants to understand law can benefit from the insights of linguistics, history and anthropology. Equally important are the techniques of other disciplines, particularly the comparative method. In Part 1 the emphases are on law reform, …
Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2017
511 kr
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Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people of all kinds used mediation and arbitration routinely to help resolve their differences. Kings and poor widows were parties. Kings and yeomen arbitrated. Francis Bacon, Edward Coke, Samuel Pepys, …
Women in Disputes
A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration
Häftad, 2018
259 kr
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From Homer to Jane Austen, storytellers have entertained their audiences with tales of women in disputes, as parties and peacemakers. This is our attempt to write their history, relying as far as possible on primary sources, documents which have survived by chance, never intended for our eyes by …
Taking of Hong Kong
Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters
E-bok, 2013
882 kr
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Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain''s plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by …
Taking of Hong Kong
Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters
E-bok, 2013
882 kr
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Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain''s plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by …
Law in the Study of Business
The Commonwealth and International Library: Social Administration, Training, Economics and Production Division
Av Derek Roebuck, W. A. Davis m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
338 kr
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Law in the Study of Business deals with the relationship between the field of law and the study of business. The text specifically discusses the program''s courses, the criticisms, and the different problems that have emerged.The book begins by enumerating the various courses or subjects that …
More Disputes and Differences
Essays on the History of Arbitration and its Continuing Relevance
Inbunden, 2022
456 kr
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More Disputes and Differences: Essays on the History of Arbitration and its Continuing Relevance, is the last volume worked on by Derek Roebuck, though not quite completed before his death in 2020. It has, therefore, been prepared for publication by his widow, and sometimes co-author, women's …
Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages: England 1154 to 1558
Inbunden, 2013
495 kr
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This is the story of how disputes of all kinds were managed in England between AD 1154 and the first signs of the Common Law, and 1558 when a new period started in the development of the English legal system. Primary sources, including private papers like the "Paston Letters", show how disputes …
English Arbitration and Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Av Derek Roebuck, Francis Calvert Boorman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
500 kr
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Our Early Modern period runs from 1700 to 1815. England was never at peace. The Act of Settlement 1701, whatever it did for the Constitution, did not end the fighting between English and Scots. Bonnie Prince Charlie was not seen off until Culloden in 1748. George Washington became president of a …
Cheques
Häftad, 1991
73 kr
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The use of cheques and other banking instruments in Hong Kong and the law which applies to them are described.
Taking of Hong Kong – Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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The First Opium War and the Taking of Hong Kong have tended to underpin relations between Britain and China. Here those events are described through the eyes of Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot and his wife Clara. Revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are …
