by Kris | Apr 5, 2010 | Criminal law, Public law
I am usually the first one to defend the UK’s unwritten Constitution. Then I read stories like the following and wonder if it really will take a single, codified document for the Executive to get the message. “Police are removing valuables from unlocked...
by Kris | Apr 4, 2010 | Public law
If you’re a Public law student who’s going to be in London on 20 April, I highly recommend getting a ticket to the Times/Matrix Chambers debate: “This House believes that the Human Rights Act should be scrapped and replaced by a British Bill of...
by Kris | Feb 27, 2010 | Public law, Supreme Court of the United States
I like to deal with common misunderstandings on Day One of Public law, and, being a bit of a pedant, I like to clarify that the UK is a constitutional monarchy and the US is not a “democracy”: It’s a constitutional republic. Democracies, as far as...
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 | 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...
