Tag: Sir Stephen Sedley
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Event: Sir Stephen Sedley’s Ruth Adler Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh University
The Ruth Adler Memorial Lecture: ‘Human Rights and the Whirligig of Time’ Sir Stephen Sedley 20 May 2015, 16.45 – 19.00 Lecture Theatre 183, Old College, EH8 9YL (venue details) You are warmly invited to attend this year’s Ruth Adler Memorial Lecture, which is taking place on 20 May 2015 from 4.45pm in Lecture Theatre…
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Event: In conversation with Sir Stephen Sedley
The London School of Economics’ Legal Biography Project will be hosting the following event: In conversation with Sir Stephen Sedley Tuesday 19 May 2015: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building 6.30pm – 8 pm On 19 May, as part of LSE’s Legal Biography Project, Sir Ross Cranston will interview Sir Stephen Sedley on his life and…
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Dawn Oliver: Parliamentary Sovereignty: A Pragmatic or Principled Doctrine?
Imagine that Parliament has recently passed a provision authorising the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists. The measure was passed during a public panic about terrorism. Public opinion and the press and parliamentarians of the party in government which promoted the legislation were strongly in favour of using such powers. The Home Secretary orders…