Archive for April, 2013
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Supreme Courts in and out of the headlines, nations divided
08 Apr 2013Dan Tench is the Head of Public Law at Olswang LLP, Hugh Tomlinson QC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers. …
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The Week That Was
05 Apr 2013On Monday the provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into force. Aside from…
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Gay Rights: In the U.S., a Political issue Gone Legal
05 Apr 2013By Lyle Denniston, reporter for scotusblog.com, an online journal of American law When the French aristocrat, philosopher and historian Alexis…
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Supreme Courts Around the World: the US Supreme Court
04 Apr 2013Following our piece on the same-sex equality cases that were heard in the US Supreme Court last week, the editors…
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Supreme Courts Around the World: India’s Supreme Court sets a new legal precedent in its decision to reject Novartis AG’s patent application
04 Apr 2013There were celebrations outside India’s Supreme Court on Monday as the landmark decision against Novartis AG’s bid to patent a version of…
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Case Preview: Bank Mellat v Her Majesty’s Treasury
03 Apr 2013The Supreme Court recently heard the case of Bank Mellat v Her Majesty’s Treasury, where the Bank appealed the decision…
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Case Preview: The President of the Methodist Conference v Preston (formerly Moore)
02 Apr 2013On 13 February 2013, the Supreme Court heard an appeal against the Court’s of Appeal’s decision in The President of…