Archive for January, 2010
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Permission Decisions, Michaelmas 2009, Final Tranche
12 Jan 2010The ICLR website has put up what appear to the be the final 13 permission decisions from 2009. These decisions…
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European Court of Human Rights finds against the Government in Gillan case
12 Jan 2010The Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights has today unanimously found against the United Kingdom in the…
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Book Review: Albie Sachs: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (OUP 2009)
12 Jan 2010Albie Sachs’ trajectory is an extraordinary one. From advocate at the Cape Bar, to labelled being terrorist and two prolonged…
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Supreme Court IT system
11 Jan 2010Private Eye alleges in its Christmas edition (the article is sadly unavailable online) that the IT system procured for the…
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The constitutional controversy – Tony Blair responds
11 Jan 2010Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has responded to the criticisms made of him, in particular by former Lord Chancellor, Lord…
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In the Supreme Court – w/c 11 January 2010 [updated]
10 Jan 2010The Court’s second term starts on Monday 11 January 2010. The week is a quiet one with no hearings on…
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Case Preview: R (JS)(Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 364 [Updated]
09 Jan 2010The decision of the Court of Appeal in R (JS)(Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009]…
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UKSC Michaelmas Term 2009 – Statistics [updated]
07 Jan 2010UKSC Blog’s statistics department has been hard at work over the vacation and we can now present our short statistical…
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Gender agenda
06 Jan 2010In our review of two recent decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada, one feature that UKSC Blog noted was…
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Canadian Supreme Court – new responsible communication defence
05 Jan 2010As regular readers will know, from time to time, we like to review cases from other Supreme Courts around the…