International Protection of Adults
Richard Frimston editor Alexander Ruck Keene editor Claire van Overdijk editor Adrian Ward MBE editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:26th Mar '15
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Increasing numbers of people have connections with one country, but live and work in another, frequently owning property or investments in several countries. People with lifelong or subsequently developed impairments of capacity move cross-border or have property or family interests or connections spread across different jurisdictions. This new work fills a gap in a specialist market for a detailed work advising lawyers on all the considerations in these situations. The book provides a clear, comprehensive, and unique overview of all relevant capacity and private international law issues, and the existing solutions in common law and civil law jurisdictions and under Hague Convention XXXV. It sets out the existing law of various important jurisdictions, including detailed chapters on the constituent parts of the UK, Ireland, Jersey, the Isle of Man and the Hague 35 states; and shorter chapters on 26 Non-Hague states and those within federal states, including coverage of the United States, several Australian and Canadian states, and a number of other Commonwealth jurisdictions. Containing a number of helpful case studies and flowcharts, the book draws upon the expertise of the editors in their respective fields, together with detailed contributions from expert practitioners and academics from each relevant jurisdiction. All the editors and many of the contributors and correspondents are members of STEP.
The authors and editors of this book have provided a text that must surely be regarded as the locus classicus of its subject in the English language. This book is an indispensable guide to this emerging area of law and is highly recommended. * Jonathan Fitchen, University of Aberdeen (International and Comparative Law Quarterly) *
The International Protection of Adults ... will be of use to anybody wanting a more in-depth analysis of a particular jurisdictions provisions for mental incapacity, as well as those who want detailed information about such cross-border issues as is covered by the provisions contained in Hague 35. * Laura Pritchard-Jones, Medical Law Review. *
Compliments must go to the authors for the excellent organisation of the work and for the concise, functional and practical approach to what are often very dense and thorny issues. This is a book aimed at helping the practitioner, but it is also an enriching one because of its 360 approach to the fascinating topic of adult protection, including its historical legal origins. This specialised book will no doubt become a core reference work for trust and estate practitioners and fills a significant existing void in the subject area. * Margaret O'Sullivan, Principal of O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers, Toronto *
As this is an expanding, as well as fascinating area of law, international lawyers, particularly those in private law, will no doubt regard this topical and timely book as an essential purchase. * Philip Taylor MBE & Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers *
ISBN: 9780198727255
Dimensions: 247mm x 182mm x 54mm
Weight: 1605g
896 pages