Workplace stress As well as legal duties under statutes and regulations, employers have obligations under duties imposed by the common...

Complexity To reach a conclusion on this matter involved the court in wading through a monstrous legislative morass, staggering from...

The Choice of Conspiracy No prosecution of a political character should be undertaken without the prior consent of the Cabinet. Cabinet...

Currently, British employment law is a sprawling mass of statutes, regulations and decided cases. The leading textbook – Harvey –...

Access to legal advice and representation There has been no improvement in relation to access to legal services, but rather a...

Attempted Reform On Second Reading, my hon. friends and I thought this was a diabolically awful Bill and we voted against it. Since then...

Conspiracy and the Trade Unions since 1920 The threat of industrial strife is almost as damaging to the welfare of the nation as the...

Public Morality One of the first major cases in the recent resurgence of conspiracy was DPP v Shaw, where the publisher of the Ladies...

The Hain Case On 21 August 1972, Peter Hain, who six months earlier had attacked the use of ‘political’ conspiracy charges, was convicted...

Twentieth-Century Dissidents We do not put people on trial in this country for their political views (Judge Alan King-Hamilton, Persons...

The most recent Irish republican cases to be cited as precedents for English purposes are those of Coughlan (Joseph) and Coughlan...

In November 1974 21 people were killed in the Birmingham bomb outrages. Following these murders, the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary...

Irish Cases since 1969 A detailed examination of the relationship between criminal law and Northern Ireland is outside the scope of this...

Twentieth-Century Cases By 1916, Irish nationalism had declined to the same extent that Dublin was regarded as a provincial British city...

The second half of the nineteenth-century saw the struggle for Irish independence manifested in Fenianism, a movement which originated...

Nineteenth-Century Cases An early example is Forbes. This involved a plot, not to overthrow the government or to cause an insurrection,...

Treason, Treason Felony and Sedition Nineteenth-century Irish conspiracy cases cannot be considered in isolation from treason, treason...

Reasonable foreseeability Reasonable conduct by employer Ramwell v Tesco Stores plc (2000) HSB 289: 23, Manchester county court R was...

Duty to provide safe system of work Two nervous breakdowns Walker v Northumberland County Council [1995] IRLR 35, High Court W, a senior...

Common Law: Formally Reported Cases Duty of care Foreseeability Fraser v State Hospitals Board for Scotland (2000) July 11, Scottish...