Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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“A Case for Judicial Confirmation Hearings?”
24 Jan 2010The issue of whether the UK should have judicial confirmation hearings has been debated for a number of years. The…
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The Walker Report and the Law that Dare Not Speak its Name
23 Jan 2010On 22 January 2010 Professor Neil Walker, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at…
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Do we want less crime? Maybe not
19 Jan 2010As we approach the second term of the Supreme Court, the lack of criminal cases is noticeable. Last term R…
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The Feminist Judgments Project
17 Jan 2010The Feminist Judgments Project is a unique, imaginative, collaboration in which a group of feminist academics, activists and legal practitioners…
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Reflections on Horncastle
16 Jan 2010The decision in R v Horncastle ([2009] UKSC 14; [2010] 2 WLR 47) was one of the most discussed cases…
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Profiles: Lord Hope of Craighead
13 Jan 2010Lord Hope of Craighead is Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court, second only to Lord Phillips, and is one…
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European Court of Human Rights finds against the Government in Gillan case
12 Jan 2010The Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights has today unanimously found against the United Kingdom in the…
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Permission Decisions, Michaelmas 2009, Final Tranche
12 Jan 2010The ICLR website has put up what appear to the be the final 13 permission decisions from 2009. These decisions…
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Book Review: Albie Sachs: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (OUP 2009)
12 Jan 2010Albie Sachs’ trajectory is an extraordinary one. From advocate at the Cape Bar, to labelled being terrorist and two prolonged…
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The constitutional controversy – Tony Blair responds
11 Jan 2010Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has responded to the criticisms made of him, in particular by former Lord Chancellor, Lord…