The past week has seen debates take place in the House of Commons regarding several important issues, including the ‘meaningful’ vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal,...
An out of court disposal is a method of resolving an investigation for offenders of low-level crime and anti-social behaviour, when the offender is known and...
According to Dicey, constitutional conventions are ‘customs, practices, maxims of precepts’ and refers to them as mere “constitutional morality”. Dicey separates legal rules from conventions as...
When consulting this issue, there are three main matters that one has to focus on. Firstly, whether parliamentary sovereignty was undermined by the European Communities Act...
M’Naghten is the leading case with regards to establishing the definition of insanity. The M’Naghten rules require that as a result of the defect of reason...
The claim that education’s only purpose is to prepare young people for the labour market is incorrect. There are many purposes and benefits to education which...
On Monday 17th December, the YLJ had the pleasure of sitting down with and picking the brains of Jolyon Maugham QC in his London chambers. Through...
Jolyon Maugham QC, Founder and Director of the Good Law Project, talks Brexit in an exclusive interview with The YLJ. On Monday 17th December I had...
The essence behind lowering academic requirements for women into STEM careers stems from a lack of gender diversity – so imposing lower requirements for women would...
In 1965 a small Welsh village in Gwynedd, north Wales was drowned to quench the thirst of an English city. In 1956, a private bill sponsored...