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Easter Term starts today
09 Apr 2013The Easter Term starts today and runs until Friday 24 May 2013. It’s one of the shorter terms, but the…
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The US Supreme Court – Same-Sex Marriage Cases: The Next Loving or Wait and See?
09 Apr 2013On March 26 and 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two potentially historic cases asking whether…
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Lady Hale – Should judges be socio-legal scholars?
08 Apr 2013In a lecture at the Socio-Legal Studies Association 2013 Conference last week, Lady Hale explored the difficult issue of the…
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In the Supreme Court w/c 8 April 2013
08 Apr 2013The Easter Term starts on Wednesday 10 April 2013 – watch this space for a preview of some of the…
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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…