The law of human rights is rather difficult to fathom and is often portrayed in the media as ‘protecting the wrong people’. In Gäfgen, the applicant...
Instead of sending Mrs May back to London with no extension whatsoever, or perhaps a very short extension, the European Union decided to give Theresa an...
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...
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...
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...
Lord Hailsham in Haughton v Smith famously stated, “an act does not make a man guilty of a crime, unless his mind be also guilty.” With...
On the 4th December 2018, the Advocate General released his opinion on whether Article 50 TEU allows for the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention...
The Human Rights Act 1998 has extended the legal protection afforded to human rights and has therefore been a key driver of the shift from a...