Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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An exclusive interview with Lady Hale
16 Sep 2010Over the summer, two of the editors of the UKSC Blog took a trip to the Supreme Court to interview Supreme Court…
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Dissenting opinions in the UKSC
19 Aug 2010Most journalists don’t care much about the law. The finer points of multiple concurring opinions are hardly catnip for the…
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Judicial Profiles: Baroness Hale of Richmond
13 Aug 2010Baroness Hale of Richmond makes a very unconventional Justice. She is the first and only woman in the Supreme Court…
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Some Reflections on Religion, Sexuality and the Possible Transatlantic Implications of the HJ (Iran) v. Home Secretary [2010] UKSC 31
12 Jul 2010In HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department ([2010] UKSC 31) the UK Supreme Court held that…
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“The Right to Education and the Supreme Court”
07 Jul 2010As Brian Simpson explains in his Human Rights and the end of empire: Britain and the genesis of European Convention…
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Some reflections on Article 2 and the procedural obligations to investigate deaths
30 Jun 2010The nine judge decision of the UK Supreme Court in R (Smith) v Secretary of State for Defence [2010] UKSC…
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Religious influence on law: a response to Lord Justice Laws
11 Jun 2010Aidan O’Neill QC’s timely and informative piece ‘Religion and the judiciary’ concludes by citing at length Lord Justice Laws’ stinging…
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Opinion: Make or Break for the Human Rights Act
11 Jun 2010Will the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat government survive? One key test is bound to be the ability of the two parties…
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Opinion: “Religion and the Judiciary”
03 Jun 2010The nomination by President Obama of his solicitor-general Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court to fill the post vacated…
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Profiles: Lord Saville of Newdigate
27 May 2010We continue our series of profiles of the Justices of the Supreme Court with a profile of Lord Saville. For…