by alicetyson | Nov 21, 2019 | Legal News, Sir William Dale Centre
By Franklin De Vrieze, Senior Governance Adviser, Westminster Foundation for Democracy Public expectations of parliament’s legislative success have evolved substantially, from getting laws on the statute book to ensuring that laws are brought into effect and their...
by Lindsey Caffin | Oct 24, 2019 | Legal News
By Stephen Mason, Barrister and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. The Office of the Prime Minister is reported to have sent a letter to the European Union requesting an extension of the period provided under Article 50(3)...
by Lindsey Caffin | Aug 30, 2019 | Legal News, Library
The Annual Academic Law Library Survey, conducted by David Gee and Laura Griffiths at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on behalf of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL), provides a snapshot of the...
by alicetyson | Jun 28, 2019 | Legal News
By Peter Sommer In his blog The Use of the Word Robust to Describe Software Code (June 25, 2019) (https://ials.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2019/06/25/the-use-of-the-word-robust-to-describe-software-code/), Stephen Mason draws attention to the oddness of the use of the word...
by alicetyson | Jun 26, 2019 | Legal News
As part of my LLM at the University of London, University College in 1990/1991, I took the ‘Proof’ component with Professor Twining. Professor Twining did not let anybody join his course until they passed an exam in statistics. My knowledge of statistics is basic at...
by alicetyson | Jun 25, 2019 | Legal News
By Stephen Mason, Barrister and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. In 1997, the Law Commission decided that writers of software code wrote perfect code, because it introduced the presumption, that included computers by...
