by sandydutczak | Jul 20, 2021 | Legal News
The Sexual Offences bill received Royal Assent on 27 July 1967 and permitted homosexual acts between consenting adults over the age of 21 Sexual Offences Act 1967 After several attempts to introduce homosexual reform, Lord Arran introduced the Bill in the House of...
by sandydutczak | May 10, 2021 | Legal News
This is the first in a series of short blogs about important dates in the legal calendar. We launch the series with a post in memory of Dr Ivy Williams who was the first woman to be called to the English Bar on 10 May 1922. Dr Williams scored 475 in her bar finals, a...
by sandydutczak | Mar 24, 2021 | Archives, IALS, Legal News, Research
Mikołaj Barczentewicz (@MBarczentewicz), Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey This post introduces results of an empirical study available in full on courts.barczentewicz.com During the live television coverage of the Supreme Court hearings in Miller (No 1),...