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Christine Bell: Bills of Rights and Devolution: From the Universal to the Particular.

‘To produce one Bill of rights may be regarded as a misfortune.  To produce eight, looks like carelessness’. This blog picks up on Nicholas Barber’s blog of September 11, 2011.  There he sketched the complicated options for taking a human … Continue reading

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Aileen McHarg: Final Appeals in Scots Criminal Cases

On 25 May, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Fraser v Her Majesty’s Advocate [2011] UKSC 24, which held that Fraser, who had been convicted of murdering his wife, had received an unfair trial contrary to Article 6 … Continue reading

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