Commentary

In this guest post James Hickman considers the trial of Helen Duncan and provides a brief history of English witchcraft laws… Continue reading about Smoke, spirits and statute

David Burrows concludes his series on the rules of precedent and how courts take account of children’s views in relation to their decisions.… Continue reading about A child’s age and understanding in 1925

In a follow-up post Graeme Johnston considers the Court of Appeal’s decision to set aside the injunction preventing the Bell Hotel being used to house asylum seekers… Continue reading about The Epping Forest hotel case on appeal: finding a balance

In this guest post Graeme Johnston comments on the recent High Court judgment temporarily preventing the Bell Hotel being used to house asylum seekers … Continue reading about Balancing national policy against local policy and protest: the Epping Forest asylum hotel case

What happens when a case involves conflicting ‘silos’ of law? David Burrows untangles the wires. … Continue reading about Insolvency and family property: can the twain meet?

We examine some of the issues raised by the recent case involving the first superinjunction to have been granted ‘contra mundum’… Continue reading about Comments on the MOD Afghan data leak superinjunction case

Use our handy schedule to look at all the cases cited in the Leveson Review report… Continue reading about Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: cases cited

The failure to report one of the most consequential decisions of the Court of Appeal has haunted ICLR ever since. But what can be done about it now?… Continue reading about Mareva - for ever?

In the third of a series of linked posts, David Burrows considers the rules of precedent and to what extent cases are citable as binding authority… Continue reading about What is binding in law, and what ‘citable’?