22-23 June 2017: Union and Disunion in the 19th Century Conference

Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century Conference 22-23 June 2017 at Plymouth University Registration is now open for this international conference, the second in a series organised by Plymouth University Nineteenth Century Studies (PUNCS). It is timed for the first anniversary of the Brexit referendum, and brings together leading scholars from the United States,… Continue reading 22-23 June 2017: Union and Disunion in the 19th Century Conference

Feature: “Judicial Independence in the UK & USA”

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820 – 1894) engraved by Eden Upton Eddis. Source: Wikemedia Commons

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”

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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”