by sandydutczak | Oct 20, 2021 | General, IALS, Legal News
Eric George Irons OBE (1921–2007) Magistrate and campaigner for equal rights Born in 1921 in Jamaica, Eric Irons came to the UK in 1944 to join the RAF. In the 1950s, Irons became an important local community figure, campaigning for better...
by sandydutczak | Aug 12, 2021 | IALS, Legal News, Publications
The case of Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal* in the Indian Supreme Court Some observations By Stephen Mason, co-author of Mason and Seng Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures, 5th edn published 1 August 2021 and available to...
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),...
by Lindsey Caffin | Sep 9, 2020 | General, Research
By Dermot Feenan, Associate Research Fellow (IALS) Introduction The death of George Floyd during an arrest in the US in May 2020 has accelerated international examination of, and reaction against, racism and the continuing legacies of slavery. The toppling of the...
