Title: Law as last resort : prosecution decision-making in a regulatory agency /
Authors: Hawkins, Keith
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Prosecution Great Britain Decision making.; Industrial safety Law and legislation Great Britain Criminal provisions.
Abstract: In almost all legal disputing, formalities are employed as a last resort. This text presents a new theory of decision making exploring the conditions under which prosecution is employed to handle troublesome occupational health and safety problems.
Contents: Themes, Perspectives, Questions -- 1. Instrumental and Other Uses of Law -- 2. The Debate about Command and Control Regulation -- 3. Prosecution as a Last Resort -- 4. Scope, Methods, and Data -- 5. The Arrangement of the Book -- Organizing Ideas -- 1. Naturalism -- 2. A Holistic Perspective on Legal Decision-Making -- 3. Enforcing Regulation -- 4. Towards a Theory of Legal Decision-Making -- Pre-Trial Processes -- 1. Disorderly Patterns -- 2. The Visible Process: Inspector as Leading Actor -- 3. Pre-Trial Decision-Making Structures -- 4. Control of Decision-Making in a Decentralized Inspectorate -- 5. Pre-Trial Choices -- 6. Pre-Trial Bargaining -- 7. Civil Action -- Decision-Making Environments -- 1. The Surround in General -- 2. Properties of the Local Surround: Construction and Chemicals Industries -- Formal Structure and Practice -- 1. The Robens Committee and the HSW Act, 1974 -- 2. HSC and HSE -- 3. The European Dimension -- 4. Stuctures and Relationships --^