‘Speaker: Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Queen Mary, University of London’
Date: 8th May 2017, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Charge: free, booking required
More information can be found here.
‘Lawyers love the word. When we teach our students it is primarily through the lens of written judgements and textual analysis. Engagements between law and art tend to focus on the ways in which authoritative legal texts facilitate the commodification of creativity or seek to impose discipline on the sensual realm. This paper will focus on the implications of us moving beyond the law of art to the more complex territory of law and art. In doing so it will explore the value of the image as a source of information about law and legal phenomena which is otherwise lacking or marginalised in the legal canon.’
Date: 24th April 2017, 5.30-7.30pm
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Charge: free, booking required
More information can be found here.
‘Chair: Professor John Spencer, University of Cambridge
Speakers include:
Professor Mike Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University
Tony Wilson
Gary Kibbey’
Date: 11th April 2017, 4.00-6.00pm
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Charge: free, booking required
More information can be found here.
‘The workshop aims to examine moral, conceptual, and empirical questions about legal normativity, including recent sceptical challenges against the supposed normativity of law. Can legal rules generate reasons to act as they require or only point to, or ‘trigger’, pre-existing reasons? Is it empirically correct that people obey the law, as opposed to merely conforming to it for reasons independent of the law? Does law have any distinct normative significance worthy of academic focus?’
Date: 19th May 2017, 1.00-5.30pm
Location: Room 313, Law Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Charge: free, booking required
More information can be found here.
‘The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) in the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London hosts this new book forum for Dr Antonios Kouroutakis (Madrid) new book, The Constitutional Value of Sunset Clauses: An historical and normative analysis (Routledge, 2016). The forum will begin with an introduction to the book by Dr Kouroutakis, and will be followed by short commentary.’
Date: 4th May 2017, 5.00-7.00pm
Location: Room 313, Law Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Charge: free, booking required
More information can be found here.
‘Professor Baldur Thorhallsson’s Leverhulme Lecture “New small states, Brexit and seeking shelter” to celebrate the publication of ‘Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics’ edited by AW Neal.’
Date: 28th April 2017, 6.00-7.30pm
Location: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB
Charge: See website for details
More information can be found here.
‘When I spoke out about corruption in the charity, I was ostracised and then fired. Little has changed since then. My advice is proceed with caution’
The Guardian, 10th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A couple of county court cases on Airbnb/short let use by leaseholders. One was reported in the newspapers, the other has not been reported anywhere before. Both show the potentially serious consequences of leaseholders letting out on short lets, where lease clauses arguably prevent it. We have seen the clause ‘use only as a private residence’ in the Upper Tribunal Nemcova, and subletting without consent, “otherwise than as a private residence for occupation by a single household” and carrying out a trade, business or profession from the Property in the FTT in LON/00AY/LBC/2015/0021. In both these cases, other lease clauses were involved, so there is an extension of the kind of clause catching Airbnb/short let use.’
Nearly Legal, 7th April 2017
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘New powers to prevent illegal working in premises that sell alcohol or provide late night refreshment have come into force in England and Wales.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th April 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In Essop & Ors v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2017] UKSC 27, there were two conjoined cases: Essop and Naeem v Secretary of State for Justice. The Supreme Court gave a unanimous judgment on both.’
Law & Religion UK, 7th April 2017
Source: www.lawandreligionuk.com
‘This was a judicial review of Southwark’s allocation policy as it applied to transfers. Specifically, the issue was whether Southwark’s policy, in awarding ‘priority stars’ for ‘community contribution’ discriminated against women and the disabled.’
Nearly Legal, 9th April 2017
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Fly-tippers could be forced to pick up litter as part of community service, the environment secretary, Andrea Leadsom, has said.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for life for killing his former partner in a prolonged attack that left her with more than 90 injuries.’
BBC News, 7th April 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘More substantive than the 137 word EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017 (‘Notification Act’), which was passed by Parliament on 13 March, the Prime Minister’s 6 page letter of notice, issued under Article 50 TEU, is lacking in one crucial respect. This post asserts that, as a matter of UK constitutional law and in accordance with the EU Treaties as well as customary international law, conditionality should be inferred into this notice. Such conditionality manifests in the requirement of domestic Parliamentary approval at the end of the Article 50 negotiation process.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th April 2017
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Finnish mobile device manufacturer Nokia was due to argue that Apple has infringed one of its technology patents before the High Court in London on Friday.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th April 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘There has been a 43% increase in applications to LASPO’s safety net regime compared to last year and theLegal Aid Agency granted almost six out of 10. There were 441 applications for exceptional case funding received between October and December 2016, comprising 383 and 58 re-submissions. This compares to 308 in the same period for 2015.’
Legal Voice, 6th April 2017
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘An insider in the tobacco industry has revealed some of the unscrupulous tactics it is using to avoid new restrictions governing the marketing of cigarettes that come into force next month.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Both Katie Hopkins and Jack Monroe are outspoken, including on Twitter. During anti-government protests following the 2015 general election, graffiti was sprayed on to a memorial to the women of the second world war. Hopkins tweeted at 7.20pm on 18 May: ‘@MsJackMonroe scrawled on any memorials recently? Vandalised the memory of those who fought for your freedom. Grandma got any more medals?’ Monroe responded 13 minutes later: ‘I have NEVER “scrawled on a memorial”. Brother in the RAF. Dad was a Para in the Falklands. You’re a piece of shit’. Later that evening she demanded Hopkins delete the tweet, apologise and make a £5,000 donation to charity. By 9.47pm, Hopkins, having realised she had confused Monroe with journalist Laurie Penny, had deleted the first tweet but further tweeted: ‘Can someone explain to me – in 10 words or less – the difference between irritant @PennyRed and social anthrax @MsJackMonroe.’ On 2 June, Hopkins finally tweeted a retraction, but no apology: ‘@MsJackMonroe I was confused about identity. I got it wrong.’’
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th April 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A collector who captured and killed the UK’s rarest butterfly – the Large Blue – has been spared jail.’
BBC News, 7th April 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who beat his wife with a cricket bat and forced her to drink bleach has been resentenced to 18 months after he avoided jail at an earlier hearing by falsely claiming to have a job offer as a professional cricketer.’
The Guardian, 7th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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