What is the Preamble to a Constitution for?
I posed the question in title in an earlier post on this blog. In an article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Liav Orgad provides one possible Continue Reading
Canadian style
No, this isn't a post about the Canadian blog and magazine Precedent: The new rules of law and style. Instead - following on from my posts about OSCOLA (here), the infamous Bluebook (here), Continue Reading
Televising the Supreme Court
No, not the Irish Supreme Court, but the new UK Supreme Court. There's quite a lot of coverage in the UK media and blawgopshere today about the new Court at the apex of UK's judicial system, which Continue Reading
Towards an All Black Book?
By way of update to my post on Legal Citation, I note that Geoff McLay on 15 Lambton Quay (the Faculty Blog for the Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law) writes: The proposed uniform Continue Reading
So, does Irish law now recognise a journalist source privilege?
As I wrote in my previous post, the Supreme Court in Mahon Tribunal v Keena IESC 64 (31 July 2009) (also here (pdf)) allowed the appeal against the decision of the High Court in Mahon v Keena IEHC Continue Reading
Is Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscene?
No, at least so far as the law is concerned. But after its initial publication in 1928, it was not until the 1960s that litigation in the US and the UK allowed it to become generally available. An Continue Reading
Legal Alchemy
Albie Sachs is a remarkable man. His official bio begins On turning six, during World War II, Albie Sachs received a card from his father expressing the wish that he would grow up to be a soldier Continue Reading
Cowengate follow-on: a question, and more pictures at the exhibitions
Emerson, Lake and Palmer performing their 1971 album version of Pictures at an ExhibitionThe Cowengate controversy certainly caught the imagination this week; and, by way of update to my earlier Continue Reading
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