Nick Wikeley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Wikeley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Wikeley |
| SIGNATURE | WIKELEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The strange death of the liable relative rule
This article examines the long history and the recent demise of the liable relative rule, part of the framework of English welfare law for over 400 years. The liable relative rule allows official agencies to recover the costs of providing support to those depending on certain means‐tested benefits and services from those persons' relatives, where the latter are deemed by law to have the primary responsibility for their maintenance. The liable rel…
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Roach [2006] Ewca Civ 1746
Child Support Act 1991 – parent with care in receipt of income support – whether parent or child at risk of ‘suffering harm or undue distress’ if Secretary of State takes action to recover child support maintenance – assessment of appellant's credibility
Child Support: Law And Policy
Written by one of the UK's leading scholars of welfare law, this book analyses the current child support legislation in its broader historical and social context, synthesising both doctrinal and socio-legal approaches to legal research and scholarship. The book draws on the historical and legal literature on the Poor Law and the development of both the public and private law obligation of child maintenance. Modern child support law must also be c…
The new tax credits and appeals
The introduction of Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit from April 2003 has resulted in much publicised delays in payments of the new tax credits to claimants. But the way in which claimants can challenge decisions made by the Inland Revenue on tax credits claims has received relatively little scrutiny. The current appeal arrangements represent an awkward compromise between the very different appeals systems that apply to income tax and socia…
Cases: Social Security
Formal ceremony of marriage in a Sikh temple which was not a building registered for marriages - whether surviving partner a ‘widow’ for the purposes of widow's benefit - presumption of marriage through long cohabitation
Benefits, Bodily Functions and Living with Disability
Turner & Newall: Early Organizational Responses to Litigation Risk
The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994
The marginalisation of lay members in social security appeal tribunals
This article examines the role of lay members in social security appeal tribunals. Earlier work (Jackson, Stewart and Bland, 1987) reported positively on the participation of tribunal members but suggested that the move towards legally qualified chairmen and the increasingly regulated basis of supplementary benefit were making it more difficult for members to play an active role. The discussion here is based on research carried out in 1989 and 19…
The Asbestos Regulations 1931: A Licence to Kill
Asbestos has rightly been described as the 'grand-daddy of all occupational killers'.' It is also very much a twentieth-century phenomenon, although the history of asbestos exploitation has been traced back as far as c. 2500 BC.2 Litigation in the American courts has revealed how the asbestos industry systematically suppressed findings by medical and scientific researchers which pointed to the carcinogenicity of asbestos.3 The consequent emphasis…
Presenting Officers in Social Security Tribunals: "The Theory and Practice of the Curious "Amici
Most claims for social security benefits in Britain are determined by relatively junior civil servants, known as adjudication officers, who work in the local offices of the Department of Social Security.' Claims for unemployment benefit are decided by adjudication officers working within the Department of Employment, and some benefits (for example, child benefit and family credit) are handled centrally. A dissatisfied claimant has the right of ap…
Training for Employment in the 1990s
Unemployment Benefit, the State, and the Labour Market
The purpose of this article is to examine how recent changes to the rules governing eligibility for Unemployment Benefit reflect the ideological concerns of the New Right. The changes under consideration here have been implemented by the Social Security Acts of 1986, 1988, and 1989. These measures must be analysed against the background of Thatcherism which, according to Gamble, represents the fusion of two distinct ideologies.1 In the first plac…
The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994
The Asbestos Regulations 1931: A Licence to Kill
Asbestos has rightly been described as the 'grand-daddy of all occupational killers'.' It is also very much a twentieth-century phenomenon, although the history of asbestos exploitation has been traced back as far as c. 2500 BC.2 Litigation in the American courts has revealed how the asbestos industry systematically suppressed findings by medical and scientific researchers which pointed to the carcinogenicity of asbestos.3 The consequent emphasis…
Unemployment Benefit, the State, and the Labour Market
The purpose of this article is to examine how recent changes to the rules governing eligibility for Unemployment Benefit reflect the ideological concerns of the New Right. The changes under consideration here have been implemented by the Social Security Acts of 1986, 1988, and 1989. These measures must be analysed against the background of Thatcherism which, according to Gamble, represents the fusion of two distinct ideologies.1 In the first plac…
Training for Employment in the 1990s
Presenting Officers in Social Security Tribunals: "The Theory and Practice of the Curious "Amici
Most claims for social security benefits in Britain are determined by relatively junior civil servants, known as adjudication officers, who work in the local offices of the Department of Social Security.' Claims for unemployment benefit are decided by adjudication officers working within the Department of Employment, and some benefits (for example, child benefit and family credit) are handled centrally. A dissatisfied claimant has the right of ap…
The marginalisation of lay members in social security appeal tribunals
This article examines the role of lay members in social security appeal tribunals. Earlier work (Jackson, Stewart and Bland, 1987) reported positively on the participation of tribunal members but suggested that the move towards legally qualified chairmen and the increasingly regulated basis of supplementary benefit were making it more difficult for members to play an active role. The discussion here is based on research carried out in 1989 and 19…
The Asbestos Regulations 1931: A Licence to Kill
Asbestos has rightly been described as the 'grand-daddy of all occupational killers'.' It is also very much a twentieth-century phenomenon, although the history of asbestos exploitation has been traced back as far as c. 2500 BC.2 Litigation in the American courts has revealed how the asbestos industry systematically suppressed findings by medical and scientific researchers which pointed to the carcinogenicity of asbestos.3 The consequent emphasis…
The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994
Turner & Newall: Early Organizational Responses to Litigation Risk
Benefits, Bodily Functions and Living with Disability
Cases: Social Security
Formal ceremony of marriage in a Sikh temple which was not a building registered for marriages - whether surviving partner a ‘widow’ for the purposes of widow's benefit - presumption of marriage through long cohabitation
The new tax credits and appeals
The introduction of Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit from April 2003 has resulted in much publicised delays in payments of the new tax credits to claimants. But the way in which claimants can challenge decisions made by the Inland Revenue on tax credits claims has received relatively little scrutiny. The current appeal arrangements represent an awkward compromise between the very different appeals systems that apply to income tax and socia…
Child Support: Law And Policy
Written by one of the UK's leading scholars of welfare law, this book analyses the current child support legislation in its broader historical and social context, synthesising both doctrinal and socio-legal approaches to legal research and scholarship. The book draws on the historical and legal literature on the Poor Law and the development of both the public and private law obligation of child maintenance. Modern child support law must also be c…
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Roach [2006] Ewca Civ 1746
Child Support Act 1991 – parent with care in receipt of income support – whether parent or child at risk of ‘suffering harm or undue distress’ if Secretary of State takes action to recover child support maintenance – assessment of appellant's credibility
The strange death of the liable relative rule
This article examines the long history and the recent demise of the liable relative rule, part of the framework of English welfare law for over 400 years. The liable relative rule allows official agencies to recover the costs of providing support to those depending on certain means‐tested benefits and services from those persons' relatives, where the latter are deemed by law to have the primary responsibility for their maintenance. The liable rel…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Legal principles and applications (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works)