All Outputs (4)

The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages (2020)
Thesis
Jinana, H. H. A. (2020). The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages. (Thesis). Keele University

Following the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998, the English law recognised direct protection of the right to privacy under the tort of misuse of private information (MOPI) by virtue of the House of Lords’ judgment in the landmark case of Campbe... Read More about The English torts of defamation and (false) privacy: analysing the impact of the overlap on defences, interim injunctions and damages.

Re-evaluating the moral status of the embryo and pre-sentient fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach (2020)
Thesis
Suffield, W. M. (2020). Re-evaluating the moral status of the embryo and pre-sentient fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis contends that the concept of moral status, which earmarks those entities towards which we have moral obligations, ought to be re-evaluated so that it is ascribed on the basis of multiple criteria, each of which may have increasing levels... Read More about Re-evaluating the moral status of the embryo and pre-sentient fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level approach.

The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism (2020)
Thesis
Griffin, S. J. M. (2020). The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism. (Thesis). Keele University

Conflicts of values arise between the values of healthcare staff, and the values of some religious patients. The reasons why, and the extent to which, patient beliefs and values ought to be accommodated has been a feature of the ethics literature for... Read More about The ethical accommodation of patients’ religious beliefs in healthcare: a care respect framework prompted by examples from modern Paganism.

Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law (2020)
Thesis
Allen, E. L. (2020). Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law. (Thesis). Keele University

At the present time, at least eight low-lying islands have been found to have disappeared as a result of climate change-induced rising sea levels and more seem likely to suffer the same fate in the future. Indeed, according to scientific estimates, i... Read More about Climate change and disappearing island states: deterritorialisation, sovereignty and statehood in international law.