A Study on the Typeface Legal System in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-349
Author(s):  
Gi-bong Kang
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The United Kingdom

Scotland

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Ward
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
System P

Introduction and Background As one of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (‘UK’), Scotland has always retained its separate legal system. Scotland occupies the northern part of the island of Great Britain, together with some...

Scottish Devolution: Accommodating a Restless Nation

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The United Kingdom

AbstractThe article traces the recognition of Scotland within constitutional arrangements. It argues that Scotland is best regarded as a nation, within the union state of the United Kingdom. Historically, Scotland was a separate nation state before 1707. After the union, as part of the United Kingdom, Scotland retained its own legal system and was treated differently in several ways. Since 1885 particularly, measures of devolution have been used in order to appease demands, or accommodate Scottish identity within the union. The Scotland Act 1998, which creates a separately elected Parliament and executive for Scotland is therefore not the first step in that process. The reform is a calculated gamble, and there are grounds to doubt whether the latest accommodation will satisfy.

Perspectives of law and culture on the end-of-life legislations in France, Germany, India, Italy and United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Law System ◽  
Life Study ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Legislative Changes

The interactions between law and culture in addressing the legal problems at the end of a life are currently being discussed in many countries. The discourse on this issue should be multidisciplinary, taking into account its legal, medical, ethical, philosophical and anthropological aspects. The concepts designed to manage the legal problems that occur when a life comes to an end are closely linked to the culture of each country. For this reason, countries with different cultural backgrounds have been selected for this comparative end-of-life study. In France, Germany and Italy, which have a continental legal system, the United Kingdom, which has a common law system, and India, the various religions and cultures exert an important influence on the modernisation of the legislation in this respect. The book deals with recent legislative changes and developments in the countries surveyed. With contributions by Soazick Kerneis, Guillaume Le Blanc, Jeanne Mesmin d’Estienne, Louis-Charles Viossat, Christophe Pacific, Volker Lipp, Christine Laquitaine, Philippe Poulain, Stephanie Rohlfing-Dijoux, Stefano Canestrari, Kartina A. Choong, Richard Law, Sabine Boussard, Prasannanshu Prasannanshu, Pierre Rosario Domingue, Arvin Halkhoree, Kerstin Peglow, Jörg Luther, Uwe Hellmann, Géraldine Demme, Sabir Kadel, Anja van Bernum, Marie Rossier, Victoria Roux, Charles Walleit, Berquis Bestvater

1. The English Legal System

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Alisdair A. Gillespie ◽  
Siobhan Weare
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Adversarial System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
System P

This chapter provides an introduction to the English Legal System. Specifically, it explains the meaning of the terms ‘English’, ‘legal’, and ‘system’. It first provides an overview of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, namely England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It describes the types of law that exist and attempts to define what law is. It then discusses the English legal system, which is based on common law and is an adversarial system.

Law, Lawyers, and Humanism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal History ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Selection Of

The first of two volumes, this collection of essays on Scots law represents a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns over a distinguished career in legal history. It is a mark of his international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published outside of the United Kingdom, in a wide variety of journals and collections. The consequence is that some of his most valuable writing has appeared in sources which are difficult to locate. This collection covers the foundation and continuity of Scots law from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scotland through the eighteenth-century influence of Dutch Humanism into the nineteenth century and the further development of the Scots legal system and profession.

1. The English Legal System

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Alisdair A. Gillespie ◽  
Siobhan Weare
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Adversarial System ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
System P

This chapter provides an introduction to the English Legal System. Specifically, it explains the meaning of the terms ‘English’, ‘legal’, and ‘system’. It first provides an overview of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, namely England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. It describes the types of law that exist and attempts to define what law is. It then discusses the English legal system, which is based on common law and is an adversarial system.

The Need for a Constitution in the United Kingdom

1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-285
Author(s):  
Wilberforce
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Flexible Instrument ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right

I was not surprised when, from several alternative subjects, you chose, as the title of my Lecture, the need for a Constitution in Britain. Those of us without a written constitution are indeed, a select club—New Zealand, Israel, the United Kingdom.I will start with a quotation from Lord Salmon. In a recent lecture, he said: In this country [U.K.] we have an unwritten constitution. I have always regarded this as a blessing and never agreed with the theoretical objections to it. It is superbly flexible and above all it has stood the test of time. It works—and works admirably. But I am beginning to wonder whether it might not be wise to evolve, not an elaborate written constitution but perhaps the equivalent of a modern Bill of Rights. A statute which should lay down our basic freedoms, provide for their preservation and enact that it could not be repealed save by, say, a 75% majority of both Houses of Parliament.One can recognize in this passage the views of an eminent common lawyer, believing in the strength and potentialities of the common law as a flexible instrument, in, of course, the right hands: of one who believes deeply in human freedom, and who is concerned about the threat to it: who desires an explicit definition of the basic liberties and who believes that these can be protected by a sufficiently strong, entrenched, legal system. In this he undoubtedly reflects the views of many people, probably of the majority of ordinary men.

scholarly journals Confession as a Form of Knowledge-Power in the Problem of Sexuality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iiris Kestilä
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Military

AbstractThis article addresses two questions related to the discrimination of homosexuals in the British Armed Forces as illuminated in the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the cases Smith and Grady v. the United Kingdom and Beck, Copp and Bazeley v. the United Kingdom. First, how does the military organization obtain knowledge about its subjects? Two works by Michel Foucault concerning the thematic of confession—The Will to Knowledge and About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth—provide a foundation for answering this question. Second, what happens when this knowledge obtained by the military organization comes into contact with the legal system? In relation to this question, Foucauldian theories of law are discussed, namely the so-called ‘expulsion thesis’ and ‘polyvalence theory’. It is argued that the production of knowledge in the context of these cases is intertwined with the technique of confession. However, the confession does not only operate at the level of the military organization but also as an internal practice of the individual. When this knowledge then encounters the legal system, it appears that the law puts up a certain resistance towards other forms of power, e.g. disciplinary power. It is argued that this resistance is due to the law’s ‘strategic openness’, i.e. the possibility to harness the law to different strategic purposes, due to which law can never be fully subordinated by external powers.

The Legalities of Trespass to Tenancyin Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 768-775
Author(s):  
Saslina Kamaruddin Et.al
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Online Sources ◽  
Tenant Relationship

The landlord-tenant relationship in Malaysia is mostly governed by the tenancy agreement, which spells out the rights and obligations of both parties. Despite having the legal agreements, it has been reported that many issues arise, such as trespass committed by landlords to the tenanted property and recovering losses from the tenants who disappeared. As of today, the country has yet to enact specific legislation to deal with issues arising between landlords and tenants. Hence, in the event of any dispute, the tendency for Malaysian landlords is not to go through the legal system to settle them as it is a costly and time-consuming process. Some tenants who are aware of this legal inefficiency choose to exploit it for their benefit at the landlord’s expense. Hence, the main issues in this paper will be the possible ways in of trespass could be committed by landlords into the tenanted property, and their rights are not very well-protected, and quite often, the safety deposits collected beforehand are never enough to cover the losses. Given several lacunae, this paper analyses the on the possible or several ways in which the landlord could commit trespass into the tenanted property. Also, this paper will investigate the current Malaysian legal system to identify the current solutions available for eviction and repossession of a tenanted property. Also, this paper seeks to similar practices in Australia and the United Kingdom, which havelong-standing legislation governing tenancy issues. The research adopts doctrinal research in which secondary sources,including academicjournals, online sources,and decided cases are referred. The authors contend that contrary to the United Kingdom and the Australian legal position, there is a gap in the Malaysian law in governing landlord-tenant relationship.

Free and Easy: a Guide for Occasional Users to the Irish Legal System and Resources

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Furlong
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Irish Case

AbstractThe purpose of this article, written by John Furlong, is to provide a comparative overview of the Irish legal system with that of the jurisdictions of the United Kingdom and will cover the range of free-to-use resources that are available in respect of Irish case law, legislation and commentaries. The content is aimed at librarians and legal information professionals who are required from time to time, to understand and source Irish law. The article is based on a paper presented at BIALL's 45th Annual Conference, which was held in Harrogate in 2014.

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