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3 Apr 7:14 am
... a very nice analysis of the copyright law quagmire caused by President Obama's gift of an iPod with 40 show tunes to the Queen of
England. I am not a copyright scholar, but I think Fred may have left out one aspect of the issue ... and me from suing the government for
certain classes of misdeeds. But, as I understand it, in the UK sovereign immunity means…sovereign immunity. The Queen IS the THE sovereign.
She has immunity. It's really pretty much that simple. The government in the UK doesn't have " ...
6 Apr 6:00 am
Fred von Lohmann has a fantastic essay on the complexity in knowing whether the President's gift to the Queen violated the law. Does anyone
doubt it is time to begin a formal and serious discussion about how best to craft a copyright law for the 21st century? Does anyone think such a law should yield such ambiguity to such
a simple question?
19 Oct 4:53 pm
... systems and the impact the law has on people's lives." Ends Notes to editors The start of the legal year in England and Wales is
traditionally marked by a procession of judges arriving at Westminster Abbey from the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand ... our work and the UK legal systems in general." Greeted
with a fanfare by The State Trumpeters of The Band of The Blues and Royals, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh met staff, contractors and
artists who had contributed to the project. In the ...
2 Apr 11:23 am
President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II
as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so? ... for breaches of the contract.) And all of this even before you start asking what happens when the Queen connects her new iPod to her computer, thereby making even more copies ... one thinks that copyright owners are going to send lawyers after either
President Obama or the Queen over this. But none of us should want a world where even our leaders--much ...
31 Jan, 2007 2:03 pm
... as Prime Minister Tony Blair was moving into 10 Downing Street, Princess Diana died in a Paris car wreck. England went into traumatized
mourning deeper than anyone could have predicted, while the royal family - Diana' ... the public relations front. She does not know how to navigate the complex and challenging world of
the modern mass media. The Queen fails to see the crisis in confidence that is looming -- a crisis that threatens the institution of the
monarchy, which she loves above all. What we ...
3 Nov, 2006 5:06 am
The Duchy of Lancaster, the private estate of the Queen of England, has taken a stake in a new 200
million pound ($382 million) fund dedicated to speculative commercial property development, The Times of London reported. The Queen has
invested nearly 10 million pounds from her coffers for the fund set up by Palmer Capital [...]
13 Oct, 2006 1:40 pm
Her Majesty the Queen has approved the appointment of six Queen's Counsel honoris causa. These are
the first honorary QC appointments since the new interim scheme in England & Wales was established. A small selection panel made
recommendations to the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Falconer. As in previous years, the honorary rank recognises lawyers who have made a major contribution to the
...
1 May, 2008 11:50 pm
Britain's Act of Settlement of 1701 requires the monarch to be a member of the Church of England and excludes from the position of king or
queen any member of the royal family who has married a Catholic. Agence France-Presse reports today that ... for the throne. His fiancee,
Autumn Kelly (who he will marry later this month) has converted from Catholicism to the Church of England. Peter Phillips is the oldest child
of Princess Anne from her marriage to Captain Mark Phillips. Today's Scotsman says ...
13 Mar, 2007 6:28 am
... 4 hour movie "Elizabeth I," a dramatic recounting of the reign of England's first great Queen.
Helen Mirren plays the Queen, Jeremy Irons the Earl of Leicester, and Hugh ... greatly in the usual length of a feature film. Mirren ages
wonderfully and gracefully as the Queen, and I think this performance is if anything much more interesting than her ... just break loose and
have at it... which she can do as the first Queen Elizabeth, a ruler of real power, fantastic whims, and occasional great tempers. ...
3 Jun 1:32 am
Cattle rustlers stole prized cows and bulls from an English country estate of Queen Elizabeth that were being fattened up for the royal dining
table. Tony Barratt, the farmer in charge of some 300 livestock on the British queen's Sandringham estate in southeastern England, told Reuters on Wednesday that police were investigating the disappearance of the cattle over the last week and said they had probably been illegally
...
11 Nov, 2008 6:18 pm
... Four Silks of The Apocalypse thundered into town earlier today to defend Mr Justice Eady - The Times reported: "Four leading Queen's
Counsel have made an unprecedented defence of the judge accused by newspaper chiefs of singlehandedly creating a privacy law. In a ... to such criticism", they say. This was covered
ably by Carl Gardner, Head of Legal, and I referred to it yesterday. The Judiciary of England & Wales website has also waded in to give
Daily Mail Editor Mr Dacre a basic lesson in the ...
29 Jun 2:28 am
Speech by Sir Anthony May, President of the Queen's Bench Division Full text of speech (PDF) Costs Conference, 19th June 2009 Judiciary of
England and Wales, 25th June 2009 Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
8 Jul, 2007 6:33 am
... most part, the other side of the pond can keep their Royals. But some in England are especially fascinated. So much so that one man
recently claimed to be the illegitimate son ... -Jones, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones. Since everyone in England already knows
her lineage, along with all of the media and Royal-watchers, ... not only Princess Margaret's will, but also that of Queen Mother Elizabeth.
Doesn't it drive you crazy how Englanders capitalize everything? But back to the story. Mr. ...
18 Feb, 2008 11:06 pm
... of England. In an editorial titled Sever Them, it says in part: England has an established church
whose authority has been intertwined with the state's for five centuries.... The queen is its head; Parliament approves its prayer book; and
only ... an article commenting upon The Economist editorial. Meanwhile Sunday's London Telegraph reported that senior bishops in the Church of England fear that last year's decision (referred to by The Economist) giving the General Synod of the Church more power in ...
2 Jan, 2007 5:00 am
In Britain, a group of lawyers known as Christian Concern for Our Nation has petitioned Queen Elizabeth, asking her to pressure the government
to withdraw the new Sexual Orientation Regulations that have been proposed under the Equality Act 2006. Today ... homosexual relationships." (See prior related posting.) Northern
Ireland has already implemented the Act, with new rules that came into effect on January 1. The proposed rules are scheduled to take effect in England and Wales in April. (Pink News.)
20 Feb 2:22 am
"Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of 104 new Queen's Counsel." Full list of QCs
Ministry of Justice, 19th February 2009 Source: www.justice.gov.uk
11 Jun 3:00 am
... to hear about a positive story. In the London Evening Standard, David Cohen writes about the new queen of Soho, a 23 year old, named Fawn
James. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, Soho is located in the centre of the West End of London, England, in the City of
Westminster. Fawn James inherited £75 million from her grandfather Paul Raymond, who was well known as Soho's property tycoon. Paul died approximately one ...
23 Jan, 2007 9:52 am
BBC News reports today that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, has written to Britain's
cabinet ministers to tell them that the Church will be forced to close down ... require agencies to permit placement of children with gay and lesbian couples. The Equality Act, which
comes into force in England, Scotland and Wales in April, prohibits discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services on the
basis of sexual orientation. Catholic ...
12 Feb 4:10 pm
... bit of pomp and circumstance to lift the spirits. Look on the bright side of life. The British Monarchy has a new online look. You can find a comparison of the new website to the
old website at Shane Richmond's article at the Telegraph: God save the Queen's website. The LawPundit thinks the new website is on the right
track. It is quite a bit more modern than the old one, even if still needs some tweaks here and there, but what does not. We would say, well done! The British and the Royal Family ...
11 Jun, 2007 4:31 pm
... , who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. The Royal Courts of Justice is the seat of both the High Court and the Court of Appeal in England.
According to the Royal Courts of Justice Visitors Guide, eleven architects competed for the contract to design the building. In 1868 it ... building.� However' these disputes were
eventually settled and the building took eight years to complete and was officially opened by Queen Victoria on the 4th of December' 1882.
Sadly' Street died before the building was opened.
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