An unusual legal battle around exorcism has been recently reported by the media in the United States. A man was employed as a receptionist by a well-known hotel chain, and was unfortunate enough to be going through a divorce at the time he started his job. Instead...
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Witches, Scottish History and the Law
As Halloween approaches, depictions of witches are pretty much impossible to ignore. Amidst all of the fun around sweets, dressing up and indulging in the “safe” terror of creepy films and books, it is easy to forget that at moments in our history, our collective...
Memory, Democracy and the Tomb of Francisco Franco
The jackets of Public Law textbooks generally feature buildings, flags, maps or even abstract art, and the images tend to be serious, official and impersonal, perhaps even sterile. It is very rare for there to be much of a hint that the contents inside are bound up...
Brexit War of Wars: How Far Is Too Far?
Ironically, the latest cause of hissing and flying-fur in the Brexit saga has been the tone of the public debate itself, both inside Parliament and outside. The day after last week’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court on the prerogative of prorogation, there were...
Why Parliament cannot be shut down or shut up
The content of this blog draws upon some of the material in an article by Javier García Oliva, published in El Pais on 25th September 2019. Please see the link below. The word “prorogation” doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, and until recently, very few people had...
Vegetarianism should be a protected characteristic
An Employment Tribunal in Norwich ruled last week that vegetarianism was a not a belief as such and would not qualify as a “protected characteristic” for the purposes of discrimination law. Put simply, in the opinion of Judge Robin Postle, vegetarianism is merely a...
Is Suspending Parliament Lawful?
At the time of writing, shockwaves are still being felt around the UK and beyond, in the wake of Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament. Not surprisingly, questions are being asked about the legitimacy, as well as the wisdom, of this course of action. From a...
Greenland: Why You Can’t Buy Nations Like Goods
We suspect that we aren’t the only people to return from a summer break to do a double-take at the news headlines. The President of the United States has cancelled a state visit to Denmark, because they had the cheek to snub his offer to buy Greenland. Indeed, it...
Quebec City
At present we are on a rewarding and thought-provoking research trip to North America, and have concluded that we academic lawyers definitely need to get out more. We are currently writing a book about States, nations, identity and human rights, with a particular...
Education, Equality, Religion and LGBT+ Rights
Undoubtedly, controversies surrounding the education of children about sex and relationships are nothing new, but in the current climate of tensions around both faith and LGBT+ issues, there is inevitably something of a powder keg. When you mix together the...
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