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The court’s inherent jurisdiction: involvement in decisions of mentally...
Leon Glenister recently worked on a Court of Protection case concerning the inherent jurisdiction of the Court over an adult with capacity Until the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (‘MCA’), the Court used its...
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Question marks over the approval of breast implants
Authors: David Lawson is a barrister and Public Law specialist at Hardwicke. Leon Glenister is a pupil barrister. The risks of untested and under-tested medicines are well known. The Thalidomide...
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Obscenity: an offence to individual autonomy
So the British stereotype of being prudish and conservative may not be completely true. It turns out, after the case of R v Peacock on Friday afternoon, the average British person does not deem male...
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Can one ever satisfy the assisted suicide debate?
Lord Falconer, Chair of the Commission Leon Glenister was part of a consultation group at the University of Cambridge which responded to the DPP’s interim policy on prosecuting assisted suicide in late...
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Challenging government cuts: library closures
Government cuts have led to a flurry of judicial review actions: from challenging court closures, to challenging the restriction of eligibility criteria for care assistance, even to challenging the...
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European Court vs the UK: the consequences of ignoring judgments
It is no secret that there has been a frosty relationship of late between the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) and the British government. Dominic Grieve this week announced his intention to go...
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‘Blind shots at a hidden target’: reforming the Special Advocate Procedure
What should the court do where there is an individual who is being tried, but the prosecutor is unable to disclose the evidence against him because it would constitute a national security risk? This is...
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Capital Punishment – from idea to reality
Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in the UK The death penalty debate has reared its head yet again after Troy Davies was executed in Georgia last week under a cloud of controversy. This...
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Should there ever be a duty to help another in danger?
Kingston Crown Court recently heard a mother, Nova Whiting-Willet, was beaten in front of her child on a London bus when she refused to move her pushchair. The most shocking aspect of this assault is...
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Euthanasia: the law can’t do anything without further information
Leon Glenister was part of a consultation group at the University of Cambridge which responded to the DPP’s interim policy on prosecuting assisted suicide in late 2009. Since the BBC2 documentary in...
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