1709 Blog Red Bus seminar: early announcement
The recent decision of Judge Colin Birss QC in Temple Island Collections Ltd v New English Teas Ltd & another EWPCC 1 has attracted a good deal of attention on the blogosphere and Continue Reading
Nothing to fear from debating with extremists | Irish Examiner
Nothing to fear from debating with extremists By Dr Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan Friday, January 27, 2012 Rather than ban the debate or protest outside the venue, it is our duty to Continue Reading
Law Student Colloquium and Brian Lenihan Memorial Address
The fourth annual Law Student Colloquium will take place in the Graduates’ Memorial Building (map) and the Law School (map) Trinity College Dublin, on Saturday 4 February 2012. The Colloquium is Continue Reading
Intolerance of intolerance, and threats to free speech
In DW Griffith's silent-era powerful - if flawed - classic movie, Intolerance (1916) (IMDB | wikipedia), the contemporary story of a poor young woman, separated by the intolerant prejudice of social Continue Reading
Letters of Note: Nothing good gets away (letter from Steinbeck to his son)
In November of 1958, John Steinbeck — the renowned author of, most notably, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men — received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who Continue Reading
French landmark case: A new dawn for investigative journalism? | Online Journalism Features | Journalism.co.uk
At the end of last year the French courts finally ended a long running legal battle which saw an investigative journalist cleared of defamation 10 years after he first reported on Continue Reading
Is internet access a human right?
A recent United Nations Human Rights Council report examined the important question of whether internet access is a human right. Whilst the Special Rapporteur’s Continue Reading
The Council of State and the recusal of judges
Two very different stories in the media over the last few days have coalesced in my mind over the weekend. The first story is the announcement by the President of seven appointments to the Council of Continue Reading
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