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Entries in Supreme Court UK (3)

Tuesday
Mar112014

The horizontal effect

Grand Wizards of the law assemble in Scotland for a "drinking party" ... Panel discussion by UK Supreme Court luminaries ... Human rights and human beings ... Lord Hope on display ... Leverhulme in attendance 

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Friday
Oct112013

Out in the midday sun

Things can only get worse ... Courts in a muddle about technology ... Dame Heather Hallett on Australian subtlety ... Parliament Hall, Edinburgh ... Professional liability barrister authors recipes for Proper Puddings ... Leverhulme's London Calling 

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Friday
Nov112011

Depoliticising the judiciary

Politicians severed from highest judicial selections in UK ... Reinvention of the ultimate court ... Elaborate titles preserved ... Barwick would approve (but for other reasons) ... Procrustes on the case 

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