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Why is a refugees different from other migrants? The first definition of who is a refugee was provided by the the Refugee Convention, signed in Geneva in 1951. Nowadays that definition is still working; cons...

First, judgments are often written in a complex, discursive fashion. It can be difficult to determine the main point that a judge is trying to make. In Woollin, it is unclear from the leading judgement wheth...

Pressure groups are a body of people with a shared interest in getting Parliament to change an area of law to benefit a cause or section of society. They do this by lobbying MPs, creating petitions and worki...

Firstly, the doctrine of judicial precedent simply means the following of a particular decision made on a point of law in a previous case. This following of a previous decision is called stare decisis (to st...

This question requires one to consider how far civil liberties (the common law or ‘residual’ rights of private citizens) protect human rights in the UK and whether the HRA is necessary in upholding these rig...