Common law world… Clameur de haro: What an Ancient Norman Self-help Remedy Shows Us about the Common Law Today, by Katy Barnett 22 Nov 202422 Nov 2024 Introduction The common law allows ‘self-help’ remedies to a limited degree, provided that the exercise of self-help is reasonable. This allows the plaintiff to take the law into his or…
Common law world… The Right to Same Sex Marriage: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Constitutional Interpretation and Comparative Law, by Derek O’Brien 1 Dec 202317 Nov 2023 Introduction Over the previous two decades a consensus had been emerging amongst constitutional courts in the common law world, at both the state and national levels, that laws prohibiting same…
Common law world… Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence–Comparative Perspectives (OUP 2022) – Reflections on Methodology, by Despoina Mantzari 27 Oct 202310 Nov 2023 Introduction One of the principal motives when embarking on this book was to shed light on the challenges expert economic evidence and analysis presents for judicial review in a neighbouring…
Common law world… Event – Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World 13 Jan 202312 Jan 2023 The new University of Bristol Centre for Private and Commercial Law will be formally launched on 8 February 2023 starting at 17.00-19.00 in the Lady Hale Moot Court 8-10 Berkeley…
Common law world… Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World, edited by Paula Giliker 21 Oct 202226 Sep 2022 The common law doctrine of vicarious liability in tort is both controversial and on the move. In the last 20 years, this doctrine – which holds one party (usually an…
Common law world… REPLY from PAUL DALY, UNDERSTANDING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN THE COMMON LAW WORLD 10 Jun 20229 Oct 2022 This is the author's reply in a series of comments offered on Paul Daly's book Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (OUP 2021) at a meeting hosted by…
Common law world… Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (OUP 2021), by Paul Daly 11 Feb 202226 Jan 2022 I am happy to describe myself as a comparative lawyer. I studied law in my native Ireland, before doing an LLM in the United States and a PhD in the…
Common law world… Some food for comparative thinking on the disclosure of reasons for administrative action: using comparative lenses to examine the French law of giving reasons, by Dominique Custos 19 Nov 202113 Oct 2021 The 40th anniversary of the French Act of 11th July 1979 relating to the statement of reasons of administrative decisions was the occasion for a special comparative issue of The…
Common law world… Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World, by Paula Giliker 4 Jun 202116 May 2021 Vicarious liability, that is strict liability imposed on one party for the torts of another, remains controversial. If the role of tort law is to make one party accountable to…
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