The 20th edition of what aims to be the leading reference on road traffic offences covers changes such as the impact of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998; new breath-testing devices; and the new Magistrates' Court Sentencing Guidelines

(PART OF BUTTERWORTHS COMPLIANCE SERIES)Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Walls has been designed to bring you thorough yet concise coverage of the law and practice relating to the regulation of conflicts of interest, and in particular the device of Chinese walls.The work takes a practical and relevant approach in its analysis of conflicts of interest affecting financial intermediaries and other professionals operating in the financial services industry, and examines the issues of ensuring international co-ordination and dealing with regulators. The work also deals with the management of conflict, Chinese walls and other in-house procedures, together with a review of the means of addressing and resolving conflict.

"Conflicts of Interest provides authoritative guidance on the law relating to conflics of interest in all its dimensions, from client conflict and personal conflict to commercial and judicial conflict.

This title examines in a practical manner the complex law and regulations that now exist in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and various other important jurisdictions concerning the concept of conflicts of interest and how the principles have been applied in the financial services industry

Examines how regulators ensure that the growing number of conglomerates are regulated sufficiently strongly to eradicate systemic risks and conflict of interest abuses, yet are flexible enough to allow the benefits of conglomeration to be secured. It looks particularly at the Chinese wall.

Conflicts of interest arise naturally in all walks of life, particularly in business life. As general and indeed inevitable phenomena, conflicts of interest should not be prohibited but properly managed. This book presents indepth analysis of such management in three areas of corporate governance where the conflict-of-interest problems are particularly acute: executive compensation, financial analysis, and asset management. ""Conflicts of Interest"" presents the results of a two-year-long research project bringing together academics and practitioners in both law and finance from Europe and the.

This book examines the law with regard to takeovers in England and Germany and the issues arising from cross-border mergers between them.