Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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Supreme Court Around The World: Little White Lies
05 Jul 2012White Lie: Noun: A harmless or trivial lie, esp. one told to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Synonyms: fib The concept…
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Live Blog: Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs & Anor v Rahmatullah and another case
03 Jul 2012End of Proceedings: This case deals with important questions on writs of habeas corpus and the implications for foreign relations in requesting the…
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Supreme Courts Around The World: Australia and New Zealand
27 Jun 2012Some interesting decisions were handed down by the Supreme Courts of Australasia in April and May 2012. Selected cases are…
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The Week That Was
05 Apr 2012The government’s justice and security green paper and its proposals for “secret justice” has been heavily criticised this week. Nick…
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What has been the most significant Supreme Court case to date and why?
30 Mar 2012Below is the second essay from our runners up in the UKSC Blog essay competition. Jamie Dunn from the University…
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The Right to Protest Contained by Strasbourg: An Analysis of Austin v UK & The Constitutional Pluralist Issues It Throws Up
30 Mar 2012This piece was originally posted on the UK Constitutional Law Blog and is reposted here with thanks. The last few…
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Supreme Courts around the World: January and February 2012
27 Mar 2012Australia Harbour Radio Pty Limited v Trad [2012] HCATrans 009 (3 February 2012) The president of the Islamic Friendship Association…
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R v Horncastle: Working with Strasbourg
23 Mar 2012The essay below was written by Jack Torbet, one of our two runners up in the UKSC Blog essay competition.…
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Independence: where will the judges stand at Bannockburn?
16 Mar 2012AXA General Insurance Ltd & Ors v Lord Advocate & Ors (Scotland) [2011] UKSC 46 As the prospect of a…
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FOI requests via Twitter – a Supreme problem
14 Feb 2012This piece was originally posted on the FOI Man blog on 6 February, and is reposted here with thanks. FOI…