Provocation

A representation of Luc Thiet claiming provocation in the Privi Council

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities...

An Exercise in Advocacy

A Judge Advocating

It is my submission that my client regrets the offences and has pleaded guilty...

Involuntary Manslaughter

Of all crimes manslaughter appears to afford most difficulties of definition, for it concerns homicide in so many and so varying conditions...

Causation in Criminal Law

The range of charges the CPS may bring, if they do decide to press charges, varies from common assault under section 39 of The Criminal Justice act 1988...

The Mirror Principle

Generally, the register of title of registered estates reflects all the interests...

Misrepresentation

An Old Car

An evaluation of the different types of misrepresentation and remedies.

Offer & Acceptance

Offer and Acceptance

The situations, rules and exceptions to legally binding offers and acceptances...

Anticipatory Breach

Breach of Contract

A seller and a buyer have entered into a contract. Prior to the start of the...

Promissory Estoppel

Promise

I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding...

Private and Public Nuisance

A Polluting Factory

The tort of private nuisance is concerned with balancing two competing rights....

A Comparison of the Registered and Unregistered System of Land

The system of unregistered title has of primary purpose the verification of title...

Finders Keepers

Money Found

A finder of a lost item has the right to possess it against the whole world...

Separation of Powers

The Thinking Man

Kingship, the earliest government, inevitably becomes corrupt and passes into tyranny...

Judicial Review

Statue of Justice

Judicial review is a fundamental aspect of our constitution as it allows the judiciary...

The Principle of Direct Effect

EU Burocracy

Directives can have direct effect provided they are sufficiently clear, unconditional...

Free Movement of Workers

Free Movement of Workers

If Europe were once more united in the sharing of its common inheritance...

EU Company Incorporation

One of the most important principles of the European Union is to establish a common market amongst member States to enables the EU to compete globally...

Adverse Possession

The law generally presumes that the owner of the legal title possesses the land...