This article explores how UK courts and tribunals could and do use empirical evidence to build the legitimacy of legal institutions. Drawing on case studies from negligence and discrimination law, it argues that the approach to empirical evidence in the UK courts is largely typified by ad hoc, ...
UK Courts Ordered to Address ‘Transgender’ Defendants as the ‘Gender’ of their Choice Tara Wolf (l.), a male transgender youth, led a vicious attack on Maria Maclachlan (r.) at a feminist gathering at Speaker’s Corner along with two other young men who also identify as transge...
In Episode 209,Jim Duffyis joined by fellow 1COR barristersAlasdair HendersonandPaula Kellyto examine recent judicial attempts to grapple with questions of gender in the workplace. How do the UK courts and tribunals distinguish legitimate and protected expressions of belief from harassment and transph...
French case law does not consider every refusal to have sexual relations to be wrongful. It leaves it to the lower courts to determine whether this refusal is sufficient to characterise a serious or repeated breach of the duties and obligations of marriage justifying divorce. It also acknowledges ...
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The courts and tribunals seem biased towards immigrants and I fear the HRA is at the root of all this. Until this is taken out of law, then it seems we are pretty helpless and our pockets will continue to be plundered. Original Richard June 7, 2021 The UK’s population and size is...
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Britain’s Labour government said without the deal the secure operation of the military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges, including through various international courts and tribunals. “It will strengthen our role in safeguarding global security, shut down an...
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