Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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A Supreme View of Legal Writing
25 May 2011Any advocate seeking to venture into the Supreme Court now has the advantage of being able to watch and learn…
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Patmalniece and Lord Walker’s Dissent: does he have a point?
19 Mar 2011The Supreme Court recently delivered judgment in the case of Patmalniece (FC) v SoS for Work and Pensions. Mrs Patmalniece,…
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Women in Law: Getting through the Glass Ceiling
16 Mar 2011Following International Women’s Day last Tuesday, 8 March 2011, the Southbank Centre hosted a “Women of the World” festival to…
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Pen Portraits – Lord Phillips
09 Mar 2011Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers is the first President of the Supreme Court, having been the Senior Lord of Appeal…
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Bringing Rights Back Home – Again?
09 Mar 2011At the end of the Wizard of Oz Dorothy manages to find her way back from the land of Oz…
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Parenthetically speaking: paragraph numbers in judgments in Ireland
28 Feb 2011Paul McMahon on Ex Tempore has an excellent post musing on the use of paragraph numbers in judgments in the…
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Supreme Court of Canada: Bou Malhab v Diffusion Métromedia CMR Inc – group libel
26 Feb 2011In the case of Bou Malhab v Diffusion Métromedia CMR Inc (2011 SCC 9) the Supreme Court of Canada refused…
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Strasbourg Case: MGN v United Kingdom, victory for Mirror Group on success fees, defeat on privacy
21 Jan 2011On 18 January 2011 the Fourth Section of the Court of Human Rights handed down its long awaited judgment in…
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Lord Phillips’ Times Interview: “One year on: a supremely quiet revolution”
28 Oct 2010It was derided by critics as “dreamt up on the back of a fag packet”, a frivolous luxury that even…
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“Judgment Writing in the Supreme Court” – Brenda Hale
25 Oct 2010In July 2010, I was interviewed for the UKSC Blog. They wanted to know about the high points and the…