We ask: can this be legal?? Are there no men employed in this dairy in which female staff toil … and are any women on the company board? I suspect the answer to both may be ”no”, but this may change … partly thanks to EU plans to increase the number of women directors. To… Read More »
As the news constantly reminds us, there is a world of difficult issues out there when it comes to life (both as to its beginnings and its end), and what is the appropriate response to ill health which might appear anywhere in between, and how to establish what conditions can/should/must be cured – and who… Read More »
Their Lordships decide that equal pay claims can be made in the county court over a six-year period – whereas employment tribunal cases have to be heard within 6 months of leaving the job. Birmingham City Council (Appellant) v Abdulla and others (Respondents) [2012] UKSC 47 BBC provides the human dimension! Rubin and another… Read More »
The death has been announced of Lord Morris of Manchester. The BBC website has a video of an interview with him to mark 40 years since the passing of the first English act to afford rights to disabled people.
She can rule – if she comes first .. read the BBC announcement of Commonwealth Leaders’ Agreement or The Guardian online article. Neither will marrying a Roman Catholic be a bar to the throne. The House of Commons Library has a Note on the Bill of Rights 1689 (which you can download as pdf) giving… Read More »
So reads the headline of the article published in The Guardian newspaper on 25 October 2011 to mark the first two year of the Court’s existence.(Authors : Owen Bowcott and Maya Wolfe-Robinson). The article is freely available to read online. Or you can just watch and listen to an 11 minute video of Owen Bowcott’s … Read More »
Lord Neuberger’s Report more formally the Report of the Committee on Super-Injunctions: Super-Injunctions, Anonymised Injunctions and Open Justice can be downloaded as pdf from government website. Responses and commentary will doubtless mushroom on the internet and elsewhere: one such, on the free web, by barrister Adam Wagner is headed “Turns out there weren’t that many superinjunctions after all.” The… Read More »
Kent Law School has announced the birth of new open access journal “feminists@law is a peer-reviewed online journal which aims to publish critical, interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged scholarship that extends feminist debates and analyses relating to law and justice (broadly conceived). It has a particular interest in critical and theoretical approaches and perspectives that draw upon postcolonial, transnational… Read More »
Users of legal websites may begin to see a new case identification/neutral citation system appearing as a result of the recent Council of EU decision, designed to facilitate cross-border access to national case law (whether from courts or tribunals). Council conclusions inviting the introduction of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) and a minimum set of uniform metadata… Read More »
But not always in the court room! Did you know that the official website for the Judiciary of England and Wales has a freely accessible library of speeches given by judges? (Not just judges but also eg those invited to give the Judicial Studies Board Annual Lecture.) My trials have found the enticing search box… Read More »
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