Law In Focus MOVED
| Created: | 2012-05-08 17:14 |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Law |
| Description: | Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. |
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This collection contains 36 media items.
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''Brexit' and EU Social Policy: What has the EU done for me?': Catherine Barnard (audio)
In his speech at Chatham House on 10 November 2015 (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speech-on-europe), the Prime Minister David Cameron outlined those...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Wed 18 Nov 2015
'Are private prosecutions a public benefit, or a public bane?': John Spencer (audio)
There have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 17 Dec 2021
'Brexit: Legally and constitutionally, what now?': Mark Elliott (audio)
In the early hours of 24 June 2016, the result of the UK referendum on EU membership was announced. By a narrow but clear majority the vote was to leave the European Union....
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 24 Jun 2016
'Can Free Movement of Workers be Stopped?': Catherine Barnard (audio)
'How can the government stem the tide of migrant workers coming to the UK?'. This question has been asked with increasing vigour by those who perceive immigration as a threat...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Thu 6 Nov 2014
'Can the 'Post Office convictions' be quashed by legislation?': Jonathan Rogers (audio)
The government has recently announced that it intends to quash by legislation convictions of hundreds of subpostmasters who had been prosecuted by the Post Office for, variously,...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Tue 23 Jan 2024
'Deporting Abu Qatada: the European Court of Human Rights, and Governments': David Feldman (audio)
There has recently been a great deal of controversy surrounding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the attempted deportation to Jordan of radical...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Mon 28 May 2012
'Did Brexit cause P&O job losses?': Catherine Barnard (audio)
On Thurday 17th March leading UK ferry operator P&O Ferries sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet and stopped all sailings. The move sparked fury amongst employees and...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 25 Mar 2022
'Does the European Court of Human Rights dictate climate policy?': Stefan Theil (audio)
On 9th April 2024 the European Court of Human Rights delivered Grand Chamber rulings in three cases relating to climate change:
Carême v. France -...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Thu 11 Apr 2024
'Does the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breach international law?': Mark Elliott (audio)
On Monday 13 June, the UK Government published the text of the proposed Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
The Northern Ireland Protocol forms part of the Withdrawal Agreement...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 17 Jun 2022
'Dogs, Daughters and "Disinheritance" in the Supreme Court': Brian Sloan (audio)
In Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17 (http://ukscblog.com/new-judgment-ilott-v-the-blue-cross-ors-2017-uksc-17/) the Supreme Court considered the competing claims of the...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Wed 29 Mar 2017
'Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?': Alison Young (audio)
On the 23rd November the UK Supreme court decided that the Scottish Parliament did not have the power to enact legislation to hold a second independence referendum in Scotland....
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Tue 29 Nov 2022
'House of Lords Reform': Mark Elliott (audio)
The House of Lords Reform Bill, which is currently before Parliament, is the latest of many attempts to reform the upper chamber of the UK Parliament. It is over a hundred years...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Wed 25 Jul 2012
'Householders Who Use Violence on Burglars': John Spencer (audio)
At the 2012 Conservative Party conference, new Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced plans to amend the criminal law to ensure that even householders who react in a way that...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 26 Oct 2012
'Human Rights in the United Kingdom: Where Now?': Mark Elliott (audio)
Prior to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party undertook in its manifesto to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to enact a British Bill of Rights. In this video,...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 22 May 2015
'Is EU Criminal Law a Threat to British Justice?': John Spencer (audio)
In eurosceptic circles it is widely stated that European criminal justice threatens to undermine the basic values of the common law, and this is put forward as a reason why the UK...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Tue 3 Dec 2013
'Is France now ungovernable?': John Bell (audio)
In the first round of the French Presidential election, Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen progressed to the runoff on 7 May, notwithstanding...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Tue 25 Apr 2017
'John Worboys: Judicial Review of the Parole Board': Christopher Forsyth (audio)
In January 2018 it was reported that the Parole Board had approved the release of John Worboys, the so-called ‘Black Cab Rapist’. Worboys had been incarcerated since his...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Tue 20 Feb 2018
'Nicklinson - The Right to Die?': Nicola Padfield (audio)
In this next edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Tue 8 Jul 2014
'Parliament’s Role in Voting on the Syrian Conflict': Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper (audio)
This video discusses six issues arising out of the recent statement of Prime Minister David Cameron to the House of Commons entitled "Prime Minister’s Response to the Foreign...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 27 Nov 2015
'R v Jogee: The Supreme Court and the law of complicity': Matthew Dyson (audio)
The successful appeal in R v Jogee and Ruddock v The Queen before the a combined Supreme Court and Privy Council raises important issues in the criminal law of complicity...
Collection: Law In Focus MOVED
Institution: Faculty of Law
Created: Fri 19 Feb 2016