Law at the Cutting Edge

Essays in Honour of Sarah Worthington
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-6519-9
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1120 g

This collection celebrates the immense contribution of Sarah Worthington to the field of private law.

Defining the subject broadly, experts from the judiciary and the academy address contemporary challenges arising in the fields of agency, company law and insolvency, contract law, equity, the law of money, personal property, restitution and unjust enrichment. The breadth of the contributors' expertise and their willingness to offer innovative and insightful solutions to difficult problems perfectly mirror Sarah Worthington's rigorous and inspirational approach to private law scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agnew, Sinéad

Smith, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

Table of International Conventions, Treaties and Agreements

1. Sarah Worthington: A Biographical Sketch, Ross Cranston and George Leggatt
2. Cultural Property and the 'Dark Side' of the Rule of Law, Sir Marcus Smith
3. Insolvency and Economic Disaster, Sir William Trower, Mark Phillips KC and Madeleine Jones
4. Attribution and Agency: Back to Basics Again, Rachel Leow
5. Corporate Liability for Wrongdoing within (Foreign) Subsidiaries: Mechanisms from Corporate Law, Tort and Regulation, Paul Davies
6. Networks as a Legal Concept: Mythical Beast No More?, Hugh Collins
7. The Importance of Classes in Insolvency and Restructuring, Sir Antony Zacaroli
8. Proprietary Restitution: The Primary Remedy for Unjust Enrichment?, Michael Bryan
9. Exporting Fiduciary Obligations: The Case of Advisors, Simone Degeling and Lionel Smith
10. Achieving Coherence in Equity's Responses to 'Breach of Trust', Jessica Hudson and Pauline Ridge
11. Tracing and Payment Systems, James Penner
12. Ownership, Personalty and Security Transactions, Michael Bridge
13. Netting Off Gains and Losses in the Law of Unjust Enrichment, Charles Mitchell
14. The Case for Cryptoassets as Property, Peter Watts KC and Kelvin FK Low
15. Better Left to the Legislature? Notes on a Nagging Doubt Over the Legal Recognition of Cryptoassets, Julius AW Grower

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Agnew, Sinéad
Sinéad Agnew is Catherine Seville Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, UK.

Smith, Marcus
Sir Marcus Smith was called to the Bar in 1991 and took silk in 2010. Whilst in practice at the Bar, he had a broad commercial and Chancery practice. He was appointed a chair of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2009 and was the chair of the Appeals Committee of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority between 2015 and 2017. He became a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in January 2017. Between 2019 and 2021, Marcus was Business and Property Courts Supervising Judge for the Midland, Western and Wales Circuits. He relinquished that role on his appointment, in November 2021, as President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. His three-year term as President expired in November 2024.

Marcus is expert on intangible property, markets and economic law, including anti-trust. He is particularly interested in the interaction between law and economics and the legal analysis of economics. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of The Law of Assignment and Privacy As Property.

Sinéad Agnew is Catherine Seville Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, UK.
Marcus Smith is the President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and a Justice of the High Court of England and Wales, UK.