Tag: Magna Carta
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Alex Benn: In Crisis: the ‘Constitutional’ Right to Jury Trial
The ‘Executive Summary’ of the report of Brian Leveson’s Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part 1 opens with a description of a crisis. Criminal justice is in crisis. The open caseload in the Crown Court has now reached a record high. As of December 2024, there were over 75,000 outstanding cases in the Crown…
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Event: The Constitutional Heritage of Magna Carta
The Italian Cultural Institute, The Devolution Club and The UK Constitutional Law Association invite you to the Italian-British Constitutional Conversation: The Constitutional Heritage of Magna Carta Monday, 8 June 2015, 5 P.M. Italian Cultural Institute 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX Foreword: Alessandro Torre, The Devolution Club Chair: Sebastian Payne, UK Constitutional…
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Dawn Oliver: Surprises in Magna Carta
I assume that I am not the only public lawyer who decided to read Magna Carta and some literature about it for the first time this year, and found some surprises. Like most of us, no doubt, I knew that the Charter contains provisions that subject the King to the law (Article 61 ‘the Security…
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Tom Hickman: ISIS, passports and Magna Carta: New national security powers raise complex issues
On 1 September the Prime Minister made a statement to Parliament in which he indicated that the Government was considering introducing the following new national security measures: Powers to enable the police to confiscate passports at borders if they suspect an individual is seeking to travel to support terrorism, for a period allowing them to…