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Trafigura: Parliamentary Supremacy and Freedom of the Press
Trafigura takes my breath away. I can understand a company reaching a settlement wanting to keep it, and their privileged (Minton) report, private – and I can understand instructing lawyers to get an injunction to try to do so. But what I don’t understand is how the...
Balloon Boy
Once upon a time, there was a hypothetical dad who released a hypothetical helium balloon into the sky. Hypothetical dad rang the hypothetical authorities, claiming his one of his hypothetical sons was onboard and floating away. The hypothetical boy was later found...
Parliament, The Press and Free Speech
I'm not quite sure how, but it appears that The Guardian has been gagged by the court from reporting on Parliament. As The Guardian notes - The right to report parliament was the subject of many struggles in the 18th century, with the MP and journalist John Wilkes...
Top Marks For Problem Question Answers (Part 2)
If you remember nothing else, remember this – knowing the law isn’t enough That’s right, you can sit in lectures listening and in the library reading until the cows come home and you will still be mediocre (or fail) if you do not know how to apply the law to the facts...
Top Marks For Problem Question Answers (Part 1)
During our last tutorial, my OU students and I discussed how to maximise their marks on criminal law problem questions. There are some definite dos and don’ts – as well as a formula - for dealing with problem questions. If nobody's ever shown you how to do it, allow...
UK Supreme Court & Parliamentary Supremacy
For an "outsider" studying English law, there's probably no topic more difficult than the UK Constitution. Because this country's never had a historical event which resulted in the breakdown of the previous system of government (apart from a couple of blips in the...
London LLB & USA/Canadian Bar Admissions
Hey American Students! Before signing up for the University of London External Laws Programme, check whether you will be eligible to take the Bar exam in your home State with an English law degree. There are 50 sets of rules and each State is different. What flies in...
