Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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“More open, more transparent, and more powerful” – communications challenges and innovations at the Supreme Court
11 Apr 2013Max Hastings greeted the new Supreme Court with the prediction that it was a “constitutional disaster in the making.” For…
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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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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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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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Lord Dyson on “compensation culture”
26 Mar 2013Last week Lord Dyson, former Supreme Court justice and now Master of the Rolls, gave an address as this year’s…
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Supreme Court Art – Bank Mellat and Richard III
26 Mar 2013The new Supreme Court encourages visitors to the Court. Those who visit come away with a variety of impressions of…
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Tomorrow’s Lawyers Today – Today’s Lawyers Tomorrow
20 Mar 2013The title of Lord Neuberger’s speech at the 80 Club Lecture for the Association of Liberal Democrat Lawyers – Tomorrow’s Lawyers…