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Legal Procedure: Access To Justice: 1883 To 1983, Justice Gibson

Dalhousie Law Journal

The invitation to me, as present Chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales, to take part in this centenary celebration of Dalhousie Law School was both an honour conferred on our Law Commission and a recognition of our shared heritage of the common law and of the spirit and endeavour of law reform shared by the legal systems of Canada and of the United Kingdom. Greater honour was done to my office and to me by the conferring of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of this great university in such distinguished company.' This particular honour I …

Towards A United Kingdom Bill Of Rights, Francis G. Jacobs

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The United Kingdom has no fundamental constitutional instrument. It is in that respect almost unique. Instead it has a fundamental constitutional doctrine: the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament. The first paradox of the United Kingdom constitution is that no rules have a constitutional status.

The doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty entails that all the constitutional rules that, in other countries, would be set out in a constitution are, in the United Kingdom, contained in Acts of Parliament-or in the common law, or in unwritten constitutional conventions or custom; and that any such rules, whether statutory or not, can be repealed …

Conservation, Control And Heritage - Public Law And Portable Antiquities, Geoffrey Bennett, C. Brand

Journal Articles

"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory." With this quotation from Sir Francis Drake begins the first Annual Report of the Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund: HMSO July 22, 1981. As the Trustees themselves observed: "The national heritage of this country is remarkably broad and rich. It is simultaneously a representation of the development of aesthetic expression and a testimony to the role, played by the nation in world history... But this national heritage is constantly under threat." Part of that …

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction In Medieval England, David Millon

David K. Millon

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