The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. Arts Institute Public Programme Mon 23 Sep – Sat 16 Nov – Exhibition: Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon A Painted Ocean | The Levinsky Gallery Tue 1 Oct –… Continue reading Upcoming Arts and Humanities Events September – October 2019
Tag: Law
Feature: “Judicial Independence in the UK & USA”
By ANN LYON In recent days there has been heavy criticism of the three justices who heard the judicial review in R (on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, largely on the basis that allegations that they have gone against democracy and applied their personal bias in favour… Continue reading Feature: “Judicial Independence in the UK & USA”
Feature: “For the preservation of our rights and liberties: The Judiciary in the Long Nineteenth-Century and Now”
By ANN LYON and JAMES GREGORY The political history of the British ‘long nineteenth-century’ is characterised by debates about the constitution in which parliamentary reform – the extension of the parliamentary franchise, the redrawing of constituencies, the power of the House of Lords, prominently figure. The judicial bench were recognised to have a political role… Continue reading Feature: “For the preservation of our rights and liberties: The Judiciary in the Long Nineteenth-Century and Now”
A Time of Judgment (23-24 June 2016): Conference Report
Judgment everywhere. Implacable judgment in scarlet up in the Central Criminal Court or delivered in measured tones in the High Court of Chancery. Beside the Embankment in the imperial senate, judgment confidently uttered before the witnesses in committee chambers or mumbled amid the gilded crockets of a stifling House of Lords. Judgment by the bearded… Continue reading A Time of Judgment (23-24 June 2016): Conference Report