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...
The ability to choose the sex of an unborn child stems from a desire for the child to either be male or female – and it...
Introduction It is the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Comedian Seth Meyers and President Barack Obama make a mockery of a potential presidential candidacy for Donald...
Logical Positivism is a movement that was founded by the Vienna Circle(1920-1930s) which provides a criterion to surmise whether certain forms of language are meaningful or...
Is the UK justice system lagging behind the rest of the world by failing to implement a “good Samaritan law”? When considering the law of criminal...
The question raised in the title of this essay could find a very easy and straightforward answer: Capital Punishment is prohibited by European law in times...
To take away the burkha as an offence is to reject freedom of religion and of expression. In order to fully answer this question, one must...
The essence behind the calls for the ban of religious symbols is a misguided calculation: secularism can only be achieved through the absence of different viewpoints...
This right of privacy is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the State would impose...
To suggest that abortion should be unlawful is to undermine a woman’s freedom of choice regarding her body. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy within...