Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
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Not waving, but drowning?: European law in the UK courts
22 Jul 2014The relationship between EU law and the municipal law of the United Kingdom seems to lend itself to allusions to…
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Supreme Courts Around the World: US Corporate Personhood and Religious Expression
11 Jul 2014The United States Supreme Court closed its term last week with three controversial decisions centring on issues surrounding freedom of…
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Supreme Court art: piano piano
03 Jul 2014Baldwin King and Hariette Richardson v Gershon Robertson is about a contested parcel of land. A key word is ‘entail’ so…
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Supreme Court art: which butterfly, which wheel?
16 Jun 2014Today’s respondent is Westminster Magistrates’ Court so I drift back to my recent visit there. In the absence of any…
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Supreme Court art: Museums at Night event
30 May 2014I’ve spoken in desiccated meeting rooms, ill-converted sweatshops and a pub in Farringdon where the post-punk audience smuggled in supermarket…
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The case for gender quotas for appointments to the Supreme Court
23 May 2014Professor Kate Malleson, Queen Mary University Last month the shadow Lord Chancellor, Sadiq Khan, appointed Geoffrey Bindman QC and Karon…
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Supreme Courts Around the World: A Spring of Equal Rights
17 Apr 2014A month today sees the 60th anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark ruling in Brown v Board of…
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Supreme Court art: true colours
11 Apr 2014I awake to an email from a stranger: ‘I’ve just seen the fantastic drawings you did on Friday night. Wow!…
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Supreme Court art: inappropriateness
01 Apr 2014The squirrel does some cute acrobatics, then shimmies into its drey on the ledge outside my bathroom window. A pest,…
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A scarcity of dissents?
06 Mar 2014Wednesday 19 February 2014 was an unusual day in the Supreme Court. After an astonishing gap of exactly eight months…