Connect 4, a game not of luck but mainly skill, there have even been studies done to work out the 9 main strategies to win the game. For us at the Law Bod it is mainly about putting coloured plastic discs in a grid to try to make a line of 4 before your opponent. … Read More »
The fun & high jinks of The Muppet Christmas Carol movie do not entirely hide the fact that the story raises a range of important social & legal issues. From the very outset, the opening sequence reveals a snowy city setting and quickly the viewer is alerted to the atrocious working conditions of those poor,… Read More »
“Do you know the butchers in the next street but one?” “I should hope so.” “Good. Intelligent boy. Remarkable boy! Tell me, have they sold the prize turkey that was hanging there, not the little turkey, the big one?” “What, the one as big as me?” “Yes. Delightful boy! Yes, my boy, the one as… Read More »
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we pause in silence to remember those who died in military service. The commemoration marks the date and time that the armistice between the Allies and Germany took effect at the end of the Great War of 1914-18. The text of the agreement… Read More »
The Cape Town Convention (CTC) is the usual shorthand for the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (2307 U.N.T.S. 285.) and its object specific protocols: aircraft objects (2001), rail rolling stock (2007), or space assets (2012)). If you would like an overview of the context of this convention, Sir Roy Goode‘s article The Cape Town… Read More »
May morning in Oxford is a well known cultural event, but the word Mayday repeated three times is an international distress signal which is enforced by a variety of legal instruments. According to the website of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, the call sign was devised by a senior radio officer at Croydon airport in… Read More »
Who would have thought that the dumping of waste at sea could bring out the Christmas cheer in the House of Lords. Well Viscount Ridley must be commended, as Hansard records that on the 18th December 1986 he came up with this catchy Christmas jingle: “Finally, there are those who think that your Lordships are… Read More »
After seeing the Official Papers collection on our libguide Official Papers: A guide to the collections, Wingspan Productions approached the Bodleian Law Library to investigate filming census material from the Parliamentary Papers open shelf collection. After a busy week of arranging the filming and getting the material ready, filming went ahead on Saturday 2nd November. … Read More »
by Hannah Chandler, Official Papers Librarian When I took over the Official Papers section in 1998 I was shown 46 m metres of shelving containing many very dusty old brown boxes, it was apparent the contents had not been shown the love of a librarian for a very long time. The contents turned out to… Read More »
Byelaws that’s what! by Hannah Chandler A lengthy search for byelaws recently prompted us to delve further and do a bit of research…. Byelaws are effectively local laws to deal with local issues. They are made by a body, such as a local authority, using powers granted by an Act of Parliamentm and so are… Read More »
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