This week's update includes the Campaign Against the Arms Trade High Court challenge to the UK Government's exporting of military equipment and the art 50 bill progress. ...
This week's update includes Amnesty International's reaction to a High Court ruling, and the progress of the Brexit bill through Parliament. ...
Where should the courts draw the line between supporting an arbitration and usurping the role of the arbitral tribunal? Alison Macdonald considers a recent case arising out of ...
Alison Macdonald looks back at a fascinating decision on the difference between act of state and non-justiciability, in a legal battle dating back to Pakistan's independence. ...
The short read The UK may be slated to leave the EU, but the English courts still have plenty of EU law to grapple with in the meantime. ...
This week's update includes new decisions from the CJEU, and the European Parliament's investigation of the UK. ...
It is well established that the State Immunity Act 1978 (“SIA”) draws a distinction between the adjudicatory and enforcement jurisdictions of the English court. This case is a ...
What with the speech of the Lord Chief Justice bemoaning the lack of commercial cases making their way through the English Commercial courts as a result of the ...
UK in Strasbourg In the case of Hutchinson v UK (Application no. 57592/08) the ECtHR held that whole life sentences are permissible, and do not violate the ECHR ...
Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down, as its first three judgments of 2017, decisions in three cases which were long overdue (as we noted in our round-up of ...