Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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Sumption QC withdraws from race to Supreme Court
10 Dec 2009We have discussed the press speculation about the application by Jonathan Sumption QC to become the twelfth justice of…
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Supreme Court Permission Decisions: the First List
10 Dec 2009The long dormant ICLR List of Supreme Court Permission Decisions (which we have being linking to on the right hand side…
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Privy Council Questioned
08 Dec 2009In last week’s Privy Council News Round Up we highlighted recent debate on the controversial role of the Caribbean Court…
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UKSC Blog and the Legal Blogs
04 Dec 2009One of the many benefits of producing this blog has been to alert the Editorial team to the existence of…
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Privy Council News Round Up [updated]
02 Dec 2009The role of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Caribbean continues to be controversial. The Jamaica Observer …
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Judicial Lectures: Lord Neuberger on Social Housing Law
02 Dec 2009In a keynote address delivered to the Social Housing Law Association Annual Conference 2009, the Master of the Rolls, Lord…
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Rights, Responsibilities and the Repeal of the Human Rights Act
29 Nov 2009The Human Rights Act 1998 (“the HRA”) has been at the centre of English public law for a decade. Its…
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The Supreme Court, the OFT and the Press [updated]
27 Nov 2009Wednesday’s bank charges judgment, OFT v Abbey National [2009] UKSC 6) (which we commented on here) was the Court’s most widely…
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Judicial Lectures: “Women and Children Last?” – Baroness Hale’s ALBA Lecture
27 Nov 2009Baroness Hale gave the prestigious 2009 Alba Lecture on 18 November 2009 under the “Women and Children Last?: Gender, Childhood…
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And the odds on the twelfth Supreme Court justice are…
24 Nov 2009Applications to become the United Kingdom’s twelfth Supreme Court justice closed almost a month ago and the selection panel, chaired…