{"title":"The United Kingdom has spoken: The receding impact of European jurisprudence on the UK interpretation of the common VAT system","authors":"Yige Zu, R. Krever","doi":"10.1177/1473779520907099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779520907099","url":null,"abstract":"Post-Brexit, UK law conforming to Directives of the European Union such as the value added tax (VAT) Directive will remain in effect and UK courts will be permitted to consider decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) when interpreting that law. How UK common law courts, steeped in the tradition of the doctrine of precedent, will use CJEU judgments in the post-Brexit era has been the subject of much speculation. This article considers the question in the context of a case study, looking at the application by UK courts of CJEU decisions in an important area of VAT law, the treatment of customer loyalty plan benefits. The evidence suggests that, even prior to Brexit, UK courts had started to pursue a separate path, declining to follow CJEU precedents that yielded clearly inappropriate policy outcomes. If the results of the case study are replicated more widely in UK rulings, it can be expected that the influence of CJEU judgments may taper off where formalistic and literalist CJEU interpretations have led to outcomes inconsistent with the recognized policy intent of UK law.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"49 1","pages":"75 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779520907099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48102409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The relationship between contract law and property law","authors":"Lutz-Christian Wolff","doi":"10.1177/1473779520903729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779520903729","url":null,"abstract":"It is commonly understood that contract law and property law are different areas of law which address different issues. This article departs from this conventional position in a rather radical way by arguing that the conclusion, amendment, and termination of contracts are in fact property law transactions and that the strict divide between contract law and property law is therefore not justifiable. It demonstrates theoretical and practical implications as contract law must be redefined and aligned with the general property law framework to avoid inconsistencies and thus the violation of the notion of formal rationality.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"49 1","pages":"31 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779520903729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47033390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The common law theory and practice of the ombudsman/judiciary relationship","authors":"Richard L. Kirkham, A. Stuhmcke","doi":"10.1177/1473779520904963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779520904963","url":null,"abstract":"In both Australia and the United Kingdom, the ombudsman sector plays a specific role in the oversight of the administration of government, but there exists no clear overarching theoretical framework within which the institution is aligned with common law constitutionalism. An ombudsman’s functionality is secured by gaining legal authority from parliament and effective power through executive acquiescence, but simultaneously to function effectively it must maintain a degree of separation from the executive and parliament. This situation creates a regulatory gap which the courts fill by acting in a supervisory relationship over the ombudsman sector. In turn, this raises the danger that the legitimacy gained through judicial oversight results in a loss of flexibility and uniqueness in the ombudsman institution. Through an empirical study of the case law on the sector, this article confirms that the courts have shaped and legitimised the role of the ombudsman institution under the common law constitution. Yet this study also suggests that there is a risk that over-reliance upon the judiciary to perform a retrospective, reactive and intermittent control function can lead to an inappropriate imposition of judicial values on the ombudsman sector as well as the courts performing an unsuited regulatory role.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"49 1","pages":"56 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779520904963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46297811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital surveillance and access to encrypted communications in Australia","authors":"Nicola McGarrity, K. Hardy","doi":"10.1177/1473779520902478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779520902478","url":null,"abstract":"Australia’s counterterrorism laws have significantly expanded the powers of its law enforcement and intelligence agencies with regard to digital surveillance. In this article, we explain and evaluate Australia’s counterterrorism laws with respect to intercepting telecommunications, other forms of digital surveillance and access to encrypted communications. We focus on the statutory powers held by federal law enforcement agencies and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australia’s domestic security intelligence agency. These powers confirm several important trends. They have further blurred the lines between intelligence and evidence and they have granted law enforcement and ASIO extraordinary powers to modify consumer technologies. They also create significant potential for conflict of laws across national boundaries. Significant strengthening of existing accountability mechanisms is needed to ensure public transparency and reduce opportunities for misuse.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"49 1","pages":"160 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779520902478","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42722876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Twisted into knots: Canada’s challenges in lawful access to encrypted communications","authors":"Leah West, Craig Forcese","doi":"10.1177/1473779519891597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779519891597","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the Canadian law governing ‘lawful access’ to potentially encrypted data-in-motion; that is, communications done through electronic means. This article begins by outlining the core agencies responsible for counterterrorism investigations in Canada, and the recent public debate and government consultation on encryption. Next, we identify how older laws designed for a different era may be leveraged to force service and platform providers to assist law enforcement and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service by decrypting communications and data. We will also touch on the legal capacity of these organizations to develop their own ‘workarounds’, including the role of Canada’s signals intelligence agency, the Communications Security Establishment. Throughout, we highlight how Canada’s long-standing ‘intelligence to evidence’ problem affects and, arguably exacerbates, the encryption-prompted ‘going dark’ phenomenon and consequently impairs Canadian counterterrorism efforts. We predict legal reform resolving the ‘going dark’ issue will be impossible without modernization of Canada’s disclosure regime.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"49 1","pages":"182 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779519891597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42609948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Alonso-Lavernia, J. Moreno-Tapia, I. Castillo-Pérez, A. Franco-Árcega, R. Villafuerte-Segura
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Alonso-Lavernia, J. Moreno-Tapia, I. Castillo-Pérez, A. Franco-Árcega, R. Villafuerte-Segura","doi":"10.1177/1473779519895267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779519895267","url":null,"abstract":"Al conjuntar las tendencias actuales y futuras en el sector educativo con la situación de adversidad vivida en los últimos meses debido a la pandemia mundial del Coronavirus, se hace aún más imperante la búsqueda de alternativas basadas en tecnologías de vanguardia para poder lograr la excelencia en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, llevando la educación a niveles que satisfagan características como: la independencia del tiempo y del espacio, la adaptación a los diferentes individuos y contextos, la diversidad en la forma de expresar los saberes, pero sobre todo, la búsqueda de motivación de los aprendices que favorezca el desarrollo de capacidades de autonomía, gestión y competitividad para el logro de sus retos personales y por consiguiente, el beneficio del lugar donde se inserte y de la sociedad en general. Este número especial tiene el propósito de compartir trabajos enfocados a dar respuesta a problemáticas específicas presentadas en diversas áreas del conocimiento y contextos del quehacer educativo, favoreciendo al estudiante en su proceso de formación y a la vez, al docente en su labor de instrucción. De ahí, que las aportaciones presentadas proceden de autores adscritos a diversas instituciones educativas nacionales e internacionales, siendo éstas: ● Humboldt International University, USA ● Universidad de Cienfuegos Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Cuba ● Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España ● Universidad Veracruzana, México ● Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, México ● Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México ● Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México ● Universidad de Guadalajara, México ● Universidad Tecnológica de Tulancingo, México ● Instituto Tecnológico Superior del Oriente del Estado de Hidalgo, México ● Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México ● Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, México.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"48 1","pages":"183 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779519895267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48565060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principles of Internet contracting: Illuminating the shadows","authors":"C. Gardiner","doi":"10.1177/1473779519891731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779519891731","url":null,"abstract":"The common law that applies to Internet contract formation could be said to exist in a penumbra—a grey area of partial illumination between darkness and light—where it may be possible to lose sight of established contract law principles. Internet contracts raise difficult issues relating to their formation that challenge traditional contract doctrine. Analysis of case law from the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland illustrates that the courts have not applied contract formation doctrine in a principled or consistent way. There is a tendency for decisions to be reached for policy reasons, for example, to facilitate the development of e-commerce, or to achieve a result that is considered fair, rather than on sound principles of contract law. There may also be some uncertainty arising from the relationship between statutory consumer protection rules and common law contract formation doctrine. The enforceability of Internet contracts in the common law courts remains unpredictable. This article argues that although Internet contracting may raise distinctive contract formation issues, it is possible for the judiciary to invoke the inherent flexibility of the common law, to take into account the specific characteristics of Internet contracts, while still adhering to established contract law doctrine and maintaining a principled approach.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"48 1","pages":"208 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779519891731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41712534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constitutional promises of indigenous recognition: Canada, Vanuatu and the challenges of pluralism","authors":"J. Corrin, Simon N. M. Young","doi":"10.1177/1473779519891623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779519891623","url":null,"abstract":"The Constitutions of Canada and Vanuatu commit to recognition of ‘Aboriginal rights’ and ‘customary laws’, respectively. The translation of these aspirations has led the courts deep into the challenges of pluralism, magnified here by the weight of colonialism and constitutional context. This article explores the progress in these two contrasting countries to provide a broader view of the undertaking. It is argued that the persistence of visible problems reveals more fundamental difficulties and that the collaboration essential to the task of ‘recognition’—and to shoring up Western legal systems in the modern reality—must begin earlier and run deeper.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"48 1","pages":"233 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779519891623","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46100543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reasonable Reliance and Apparent Authority: East Asia Company Ltd v PT Satria Tirtatama Energindo [2019] UKPC 30","authors":"M. Campbell","doi":"10.1177/1473779519887761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779519887761","url":null,"abstract":"The Privy Council in East Asia Company Ltd v PT Satria Tirtatama Energindo (a case on appeal from Bermuda) has provided clarification on the correct approach to the reliance aspect of apparent authority. Reliance can be of particular importance where the third party has been put on notice as to the agent’s lack of authority: for example, when the transaction is unusual or especially onerous for the principal. The Privy Council concluded, albeit obiter, that the correct test is one of reasonable reliance by the third party. In doing so, it has rejected the approach adopted by Lord Neuberger NPJ in the Hong Kong case of Akai Holdings and subsequently followed in a number of English decisions: that is, reliance by the third party is presumed in the absence of dishonesty or irrationality.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"48 1","pages":"184 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779519887761","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42632168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Majid, Sri Yogamalar, A. K. L. Siah, Jane Terpstra-Tong, L. Borrowman
{"title":"A new chapter in the law of sexual harassment in Malaysia: The emergence of the torts of harassment and sexual harassment","authors":"A. Majid, Sri Yogamalar, A. K. L. Siah, Jane Terpstra-Tong, L. Borrowman","doi":"10.1177/1473779519875464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473779519875464","url":null,"abstract":"In a landmark case in 2016, Malaysia’s apex court, the Federal Court, explicitly recognised for the first time, the common law tort of sexual harassment. Actually, the Federal Court did more than that; its recognition of the common law tort of sexual harassment is built on its recognising the common law tort of harassment. The recognition of the tort of harassment has escaped notice because attention has been concentrated on the tort of sexual harassment. This article analyses the Federal Court’s exposition of the tort of sexual harassment to reveal that the exegesis itself acknowledges the existence of the tort of harassment per se. The tort of harassment that the Federal Court sent out into the world is largely a creature of its English common law ancestry.","PeriodicalId":87174,"journal":{"name":"Common law world review","volume":"48 1","pages":"191 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473779519875464","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47030794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}