Social Security Law

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Social Security Law
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert East
SeriesPalgrave Law Masters
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780333715772
ClassificationsDewey:344.4102
Audience
A / AS level
Undergraduate
Illustrations XXVI, 352 p.

Publishing Details

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date 26 August 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This account of the British social security system and its legal framework sets out the principal features of the main social benefits, giving a detailed exposition of the legal basis of entitlement to each benefit. It then takes the reader several steps further in placing the understanding of social security law into its wider social, political, historical and European context.

Author Biography

ROBERT EAST has been teaching law at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level for a number of years, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. He has published in the spheres of Social Security Law and Criminal Justice. He is currently Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Glamorgan.

Reviews

'I am very impressed with it. It is very comprehensive in coverage, but always comprehensible...It is also amazingly cheap.' - Robin M. White, Lecturer, Dundee University