In the early nineteen-seventies, it was a rule of professional practice, but not of law, that where a QC was instructed, a junior...

George Orwell Orwell had little interest in the law, but he commented that it was not that anyone imagined the law to be just. Everyone...

R v Copeland (Appellant) Class justice Class justice means, essentially, that the principles of justice operate inequitably in favour of...

For ten weeks in 1871, workers, artisans, students and veterans of revolutions took control of the second largest city in Europe. It was...

Reports of health and safety prosecutions cover, with depressing regularity, incidents involving deaths and injuries caused by crushing....

The question of injury caused by noise at work deserves separate treatment because it has been the subject of a distinct line of cases....

CHAPTER 2: NEGLIGENCE Duty of Care Manufacturer Davie v New Merton Board Mills (1958) A drift (a tapered steel bar) was made by an...

Employment tribunal procedure The Report of the Donovan Commission in 1968 stated that the aim of the industrial tribunal (as it was then...

Information technology There is a movement, fortunately not currently particularly successful, towards the replacement of lawyers with...

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...