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Barrister abducted without trace for two years

It is now two years since Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem, also Called to the Bar of England and Wales, was forcibly abducted from his home, almost certainly by Bangladeshi... read more

Inquilab: the last words

70 years ago India obtained her independence but the road to freedom was littered with untold horrors. Paramjit Ahluwalia delves into the British archives to liberate the last words of freedom... read more

Bringing ISIL to justice

A vital step in establishing accountability for war crimes in Iraq but with inevitable tensions ahead: Kevin Dent and Serena Gates examine the workability of UN Security Council Resolution 2379 read more

Legacy of empire

The unequal administration of justice in Australia is hardly ancient history and goes a significant way to explaining the overrepresentation of Aboriginal Australians in custody today, writes... read more

Making the ascent

Sir Daniel Bethlehem QC shares his route from Bar basecamp to all-round public international lawyer with Anthony Inglese ‘It’s helpful when teaching public international... read more

Law and diplomacy

Sir Michael Wood’s time at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office reads like a modern history textbook. Anthony Inglesestrong asks what he’s learned about the art of the lawyer-diplomat and... read more

Athens legal support

Miranda Butler and Julia Lowis report on a UK initiative providing specialist advice to asylum seekers and Greek lawyers in the refugee crisis read more

Mind games

Why do defendants make false confessions? Simon Ralph looks at troubling trends in the interrogation of vulnerable individuals and what can be learned from the United States... read more

Top-down reform

Its top courts will be ‘liquidated’, powers shifted and judicial interviews are to be live-streamed. John Cubbon outlines the radical reformation of Ukrainian justice as the country... read more

Point of trust

From Burma to Bangladesh and from China to South Sudan, Christopher Marshall and Jessica Magson describe how the British Council puts access to justice into global practice amongst... read more

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R v Gimbert

Criminal law – Theft. The appellant's appeal against his conviction for theft, for stealing his cousin's property, was allowed. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, quashed the appellant's sentence on the basis that he had acted pursuant to a null and void power of attorney, and accordingly,...

University of Technology, Mauritius v Gopeechand (Mauritius)

Contract – Carriage. The Magistrate had not erred in her judgment that the employer was liable to the employee in damages for breach of contract as a result of injuries sustained by the employee in a road traffic accident, when he was being driven home after work by another employee of the...

Law Society (acting through the Solicitors Regulation Authority) v Blavo

Solicitor – Practice. There are no grounds for setting the statutory demands served on the respondent solicitor on the basis that the subject of the statutory demands were not debts for liquidated sums within the meaning of s 267(2)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986. The Court of Appeal, Civil...

Crumpler and another (Joint liquidators of Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd in liquidation) v Candey Ltd

Company – Liquidation. The appellant liquidators' appeal failed, in a case concerning money paid into court as security for the respondent solicitors' fees, by a company that had entered liquidation. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the company had retained the property in the...

R v Clough

Sentence – Imprisonment. The defendant appealed against a sentence of two years and eight months' imprisonment for conspiracy to supply heroin, which had been imposed along with a concurrent term of six months' imprisonment for possession of amphetamine. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division,...

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