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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 wh...

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 wo...

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 ...

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 ...

The doctrine of precedent stipulates that, unless they clash with statute, decisions of the highest court with respect to a specific legal matter, are bound upon lower courts, as well as the courts in whi...