Directors Remuneration Part 1 - Directors' Duties

In every stage of social evolution there are particular needs which have to be met, and particular tendencies in human character...

Loss of Control - New Law

The centuries old partial defence of provocation has been abolished by s.56 of Coroners and...

The Nature of the EU

The institutions of the European Union are an arrangement unique in kind...

Preliminary Rulings

History of the European Union

From the enlightenment's vision of a utopia, to Victor Hugo's call for a United States of Europe, great thinkers for centuries have dreamed...

The Principle of Direct Effect

Directives can have direct effect provided they are sufficiently clear, unconditional...

Adverse Possession

The law generally presumes that the owner of the legal title possesses the...

The Mirror Principle

Generally, the register of title of registered estates reflects all the interests...

Directors Remuneration Part 2 - Public Companies

The reluctance of the courts to intervene seems to be based not on principle nor on logic, but free market economics...

Land Systems

The system of unregistered title has of primary purpose the verification of title deeds to protect against fraud. It is said that the discovery of encumbrances upon...

Finders Keepers

A finder of a lost item has the right to possess it against the whole world...

Defamation

Private and Public Nuisance

The tort of private nuisance is concerned with balancing two competing rights....

The Biology of Culpability

When an individual is exposed to a stimuli from the internal (biological) or external (social) environment, permanent changes occur in the neural structure and...

The Harm Principle

Since no man has a natural authority over his fellow, and force creates no right...

An Exercise in Advocacy

It is my submission that my client regrets the offences and has pleaded guilty...

Involuntary Manslaughter

Of all crimes manslaughter appears to afford most difficulties of definition, for it concerns...

Causation in Criminal Law

The range of charges the CPS may bring, if they do decide to press charges, varies from common assault under section 39 of The Criminal Justice act 1988...

The Law of Provocation

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities...

Sex Discrimination - EU Law

[the community intends] by common action, to ensure...