by Kris | Jan 2, 2010 | Public law
Ahhh, the memories. Blasphemy used to be a English law exam and essay topic favourite. It had everything. Blasphemy was especially fun to research and write about as you could chart English legal history from canon to common law, all the way down and through to Mary...
by Kris | Dec 30, 2009 | Public law, Supreme Court of the United States
As an Anglo-American lecturer in English Criminal and Public (constitutional and administrative) law, I am bemused by the myriad of approaches to US Constitutional interpretation. So here’s a question: Is Miranda v Arizona “unconstitutional”? How do...
by Kris | Nov 26, 2009 | Public law
It’s all happening in Islington (our neighbouring borough) these days. First, there was the case of the Christian registrar, Lillian Ladele, who refused to conduct [gay] civil ceremonies against her beliefs. Then came the long expected, but hitherto never...
by Kris | Oct 21, 2009 | Public law
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...
by Kris | Oct 12, 2009 | Public law
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...
by Kris | Sep 13, 2009 | Public law
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...
