Contents include:ArticlesMerris Amos, Democratic State, Autocratic Method: The Reform of Human Rights Law in the United Kingdom Toni Marzal, The Territorial Reach of European Union Law: A Private International Law Enquiry into the European Union's Spatial Identity Csongor Istvan Nagy, The Rebellion of Constitutional Courts and the Normative Character of European Union Law Sean Molloy, Child Soldiers and Peace Agreements Jack Kenny, Cyber Operations and the Status of Due… [read post]

Even Clay Shaw is surprised at what he has seen. [read post]

You can't find out any of the above information because of course, Freedom of Information isn't allowed when it comes to lawyers, as the legal profession currently have an immunity from FOI as I reported in my earlier article of this week : Consumer protection weakened by lawyers FOI exemption while new Legal Complaints Commission must comply to information lawsWith the eventual opening of Scotland's legal services market, after Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's go… [read post]

Irish constitutional law does indeed subscribe to a hierarchy of rights in some cases (see, eg, People (DPP) v Shaw [1982] IR 1, 63 (Kenny J)); but that is usually unprincipled and largely unworkable (see, eg, Attorney General v X [1992] 1 IR 1, [1992] IESC 1 (5 March 1992) [138]-[139] (McCarthy J), [184] (Egan J); Sunday Newspapers Ltd v Gilchrist and Rogers [2017] IESC 18 (23 March 2017) [36] (O’Donnell J) (Denham CJ,… [read post]