Category: Law
Royal Assent
After a Bill passes through both Houses of Parliament, it must have Royal Assent to become an Act. The oldest way in […]
Read MoreThe Official Secrets Act
Concerns over maintaining the confidentiality of information regarding Britain’s national security have parallelled the changing world of communications and international travel. The […]
Read MoreAlfred the Great’s book of laws
One of the achievements of Alfred the Great (849-899), King of Wessex, was to compile ‘The Dōmbōc’ (The Doom Book) in c.886-93. […]
Read MoreDisabled access
Both World Wars, by producing many more physically and mentally disabled people than before, resulted in the creation of laws and regulations […]
Read MoreCommon law
Common law embodies the natural instinct towards knowing what is right (‘lawful’) and wrong (‘unlawful’) and the appropriate degree of punishment that […]
Read MoreCrown Courts
The Courts Act of 1971 established the network of Crown Courts and circuit judges in England and Wales, streamlining the system in […]
Read MoreTrading Standards
Since the 10th century there have been laws on weights and measures to minimise differences from one town to another in, for […]
Read MoreMaritime law
Queen Eleanor (1122-1204), mother of King Richard I ‘the Lionheart’ (1157-99), ruled England in his absence on Crusade and she established maritime […]
Read MoreSolicitors
Solicitors are the British citizen’s first port-of-call for any legal matter. That could be moving house, determining custody of children, dealing with […]
Read MoreYouth Courts
After the dust of the Industrial Revolution had settled, there began to be voices heard about declining morals and their effect on […]
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