tw // genital ‘normalising’ surgery, FGM Genital ‘normalising’ surgery – surgery on intersex infants which has the sole purpose of altering external genitalia to match societal...
The fee simple owner of an estate has absolute possession over a piece of land and compromises the right to the use and enjoyment of said...
An Indian tribute to Howard Zinn’s People’s Constitution Some Indians are talking about the Constitution and Constitutionalism but asking the wrong questions, such as,could it be better...
The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill Where are you going for your next holiday? Hopefully not Syria or Iraq. Not only is it rather dangerous, it...
On 29 November 2012, the United Nations General Assembly accorded the state of Palestine ‘observer status’ (not full membership). In response, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas,...
74 years ago today, Russian forces liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp. It is hard to conceptualise the 1.1 million people savagely murdered...
France’s recent €50m fine against Google for breaking the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) highlights the various legal challenges that both tech-companies and businesses using new...
Tomorrow, a group of Conservative rebel Members of Parliament led by Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney-General, will unveil their plan to suspend Article 50 and derail...
First of all, a definition is in demand. The concept of separation of powers entails that power is not over-concentrated in a single branch of government....
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,...
The current law determining financial provisions on divorce, leaves much to the discretion of the judge. The non-exhaustive list of considerations to be taken into account...
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...
Vicarious liability is concerned with the circumstances in which one party may be held liable for the tort of another person. Vicarious liability has never been...
Article 2(1) of the ECHR protects the right to life whilst article 2(2) sets out the circumstances in which force resulting in the loss of life,...
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...
The government completed its consultation of proposals for potential reforms to takeover laws in October and will publish responses in the new year. However, leaked proposals...
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...