Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, online security, the monitoring of employees, the uses of DNA - to name a few - all raise fundamental questions about our right to privacy. In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Raymond Wacks includes a number of recent changes and considers the future of privacy in society.

This is the first book to comprehensively describe and explain the underpinnings and workings of two key parts of the penal system-probation and parole.

The aim of this book is to analyse the remedy of damages in public procurement law. It offers an overview of damages liability which is inclusive, coherent and practical, covering the relevant law and jurisprudence from a number of countries across Europe and further afield.

This book details the origins of rates in Ireland and explaining with the use of the relevant legislative provisions, how they are made, who is responsible for paying them, the procedure for appealing rates and the procedure for recovering rates.

This book examines the regulation and practice of medical decision-making where the context is that of a multiple pregnancy and where the question is whether or not to carry out a fetal reduction procedure.

Regulating the End of Life is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This book develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that involve dissension between religious belief and medical law.

This book examines the work of the public relations, technology, and legal professionals who provide online "reputation management" services, situating their work within contemporary debates about regulating speech on the internet.