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	text:  larger  smaller		Rebecca Williams CUF Lecturer  Rebecca Williams holds a titular CUF lecturership in association with Pembroke College. Rebecca was previously a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, having done her PhD at Birmingham. Before that she was both an undergraduate and a BCL student at Worcester College, Oxford. Rebecca's principal teaching interests are criminal law and public law, and her research interests include: - Criminal Law (including EU criminal law) - Public Law (including EU public law and comparative approaches) - The interrelationship between public law and unjust enrichment - The role of mistake in vitiating choice in criminal law, unjust enrichment, contract, public law and tort law Subject groups : Constitutional and Administrative Law : Criminal Law : European Community Law : Constitutional and Administrative Law All | Recent | Selected Publications    sorted by selection | sort by year R Williams, Unjust Enrichment and Public Law: A comparative study of England, France and the EC (Hart Publishing 2009) URL: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781841134147 Abstract: Since the decisions in R v IRC ex p Woolwich Equitable Building Society in 1990 and Hazell v Hammersmith and Fulham LBC in 1991, the courts have had, in a variety of contexts, to grapple with the relationship between unjust enrichment, public law and the law of the European Community. 20 years later, the decision of the European Court of Justice in Metallgesellschaft and Hoecsht v IRC in 2001 has led to a further explosion of such cases, many of which are still making their way through the courts. The central aim of this book is to examine such claims in France, England and the EC. The author argues that so far these cases have been viewed from either a public or private law perspective, whereas in fact both branches of the law are relevant, and the courts ought not to lose sight of the public law issues when a claim is brought under the private law of unjust enrichment. Support for this position is drawn from an examination of French law, which demonstrates that neither adoption of the ‘without cause’ approach to unjust enrichment, nor the longer-standing existence of a separate concept of public law removes the necessity for such a hybrid public and private understanding of the cases. Finally, in order to complete the picture the book examines cases where the limit on the public body’s powers derives, not from domestic public law, but from the law of the EC. Thus a further aspect of the book is that it analyses more specifically what is often referred to as the ECJ’s ‘remedies’ jurisprudence in order to investigate the division of labour between the European courts and the domestic courts in defining such claims. ISBN: 1841134147 / 9781841 R Williams, 'Deception, Mistake and Vitiation of the Victim's Consent' (2007) 124(Jan) Law Quarterly Review 132-159 R Williams, 'Policy and Principle in Drugs Manslaughter Cases' (2005) 64(1) Cambridge Law Journal 66-78 DOI: 10.1017/S0008197305006781 ISBN: 1469-2139 R Williams, 'When is an Error not an Error? Reform of Jurisdictional Review of Error of Law and Fact' (2007) 2007(Winter) Public Law 793-808 R Williams and R Shiers, 'FII GLO (Chancery) and F J Chalke; tax and restitution developing hand-in-hand' (2009) British Tax Review 365   [Case Note] Abstract: The authors examine the recent domestic decisions in the FII Group Litigation Order and F J Chalke, and demonstrate the significance of these taxation cases for the future development of the law of unjust enrichment. They consider in particular the impact of European case law in this area. R Williams, 'The Beginnings of a Public Law of Unjust Enrichment?' (2005) 16(1) King's College Law Journal 194-208 R Williams and N Padfield, 'Le Cas Anglais: L’absence d\'interactions? ' in Geneviève Giudicelli-Delage, Stefano Manacorda (eds), Cour de Justice et Justice Pénale ( ) English Abstract: The book collects together work by authors from England, France, Spain, Italy and Belgium in order to examine the impact of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the field of criminal law. The first part investigates the case law of the ECJ per se, while the second part examines the interaction between this jurisprudence and the domestic systems of the Member States. In the case of the UK, Williams and Padfield seek to explain why there has not been so much discussion of European criminal case law in the domestic courts of England and Wales as there has been in other Member States. Correspondence address: Pembroke College, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DW Link to Pembroke College Link to University email/phone directory in new window