What's in a (Real) Name?
Is knowledge of an individual’s real name more or less valuable than knowledge of the efforts exerted in an attempt to conceal it? This...
Public Inquiries: Who Discloses What, and in Whose Interests?
Among all of the cases in which former Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) officers have successfully pursued applications under section 19...
Common Rulebooks and Frictionless Borders: The UK's Redesign of the European Union
Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon was intended to permit and to facilitate the passive withdrawal of a state from membership of the...
Encounters at the Crossroads of the Inquiry into Undercover Policing
The Inquiry Into Undercover Policing Strategic Review (SR) draws a distinction between “past events” connected with covert policing...
A Note on the Inquiry into Undercover Policing Strategic Review
Yesterday, the Inquiry into Undercover Policing published the latest iteration of its Strategic Review (IUPSR). It did not concede to the...
On Deconstruction and Closed Courts
Force of Law: The “Mystical Foundation of Authority” is one of Jacques Derrida’s most widely read and influential texts. It is a text in...
Fear of Black Justice?
Although separated by almost two decades, the MacPherson Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence and the Mitting Inquiry into...
Degree Algorithms and the Law
2017 saw the publication of two major reports on UK higher education degree classification systems. The jointly authored report by...
Satellite Litigation and Non-cooperation
All too often, a plea for equality is unhelpfully construed as a plea for special consideration. The litigation in, and public discourse...
Qualifying Law Degree 2020
2014 brought the effective demise of the Joint Academic Stage Board (JASB) regulatory framework governing the university stage of legal...