Your one-stop guide to interpreting EC directives and how they impact on UK legal arguments, case law and procedure
Packed-to-bursting with practical guidance and illustration of how EC Directives have impacted on UK procedures - alerting you to the correct course of action
The only practitioner book of its kind
The impact of EC Directives on national law has long been a problem and continues to be so - both in terms of interpretation and implementation. This new book from Barrister Richard Brent provides you with a powerful asset for your legal armoury - providing you with practical and invaluable insights on the legislative processes involved, the legal basis for adoption of Directives, the transposition and implementation of Directives and much, much more.
Don't be caught out by misinterpreting and EC Directive
As Directives increasingly and relentlessly impact on legal practice, whatever your specialist area of law, you need to understand the problems to which they give rise if you are to avoid falling foul of the law itself. This book will provide you with detailed and authoritative coverage of the particular legal problems associated with Directives and offers practical solutions to the problems as they arrive.
A new, authoritative and powerful reference source
In over 300 detailed and authoritative pages, Directives: Rights and Remedies in English and Community Law explains the conditions that have to be satisfied for a Directive to create valid legal obligations, and the way in which a Directive's validity may be disputed.
It goes on to look at the legal effects of Directives, and the remedies that are available when a Member State fails to fulfil the obligations they demand. Finally it explores how Directives, and the domestic legislation that implements them, are to be interpreted. Which means that you are in a strong position when working for a client where and EC Directive could have a bearing on your case.
Full reference to case law and appropriate legislation
In this probing work, barrister Richard Brent not only states the law as it is, but also describes the principal debates on where it is going, integrating academic insight with practical considerations. He has produced a work which is cram-full of practical advice and is fully supported by reference to important case decisions and appropriate legislation - both Statutes and Statutory Instruments. He has created a reference book which you will turn to again and again.
As the Right Honourable Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Appeal in Ordinary, says in the foreword of the book:
"Mr Brent has done us all a great service in taking the initiative, conducting the research and producing, for the first time, a specialist textbook devoted exclusively to this very important and rapidly expanding subject which is intended for use by practitioners. It has been designed to cover the entire field with which practitioners will need to make themselves familiar, including the United Kingdom case law and issues of procedure. I am confident that it will prove to be a valuable and reliable work of reference."
If you are involved in a case for a client which has the potential to revolve around the interpretation of an EC Directive and its implications, an investment in this book will repay itself many times over.
