Archive for April, 2014
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In the Supreme Court w/c 28 April 2014
28 Apr 2014The Court is in recess Monday 28 April. On Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 April the Court will hear the…
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Supreme Courts Around the World: A Spring of Equal Rights
17 Apr 2014A month today sees the 60th anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark ruling in Brown v Board of…
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Lord Neuberger: Balanced Sensible Women Are More Effective Advisers (but 24/7 culture of City Law Firms sees obsessive, testosterone-driven men push ahead)
16 Apr 2014On 12 March 2014 Lord Neuberger gave a speech to the House of Commons (titled the Rainbow Lecture 2014), the…
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Case Comment – Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James [2013] UKSC 67
15 Apr 2014Summary This case deals with when it will be appropriate for treatment to be withheld, and how the best interests…
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Case Comment: R (Reilly & Anor) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] UKSC 68
15 Apr 2014On 30 October 2013, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in R (Reilly & Anor) v Secretary of State…
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Right-wing think tank calls for Supreme Court to be made “supreme”
15 Apr 2014The Daily Telegraph reports on the launch of the Civitas report The Demise of the Free State: Why British democracy…
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Supreme Court art: true colours
11 Apr 2014I awake to an email from a stranger: ‘I’ve just seen the fantastic drawings you did on Friday night. Wow!…
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Case Preview: R (Whiston) v Secretary of State for Justice
10 Apr 2014Article 5 of the ECHR must be a frontrunner for the award of “most analysed Convention Article”*. Part of the…
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New Judgment: Deutsche Bahn AG & Ors v Morgan Advanced Materials Plc (formerly Morgan Crucible Co Plc) [2014] UKSC 24
09 Apr 2014On appeal from: [2012] EWCA Civ 1055. The appellants participated in an illegal cartel in electrical and mechanical carbon and…
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Case Comment: Raymond Brownlee’s application for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland) [2014] UKSC 4
08 Apr 2014The Supreme Court allowed the appeal of Mr Brownlee, who had applied for judicial review of the Northern Ireland Legal…
