Monthly Archives: April, 2025
‘Can a trade union sue for libel?’
In the case of Prospect v Evans [2025] EWHC 499 (KB), the Defendant, a former member of the Claimant trade union which represents professionals and specialist workers across a range of sectors sought to hold to account the Claimant’s officers for alleged wrongdoing … (more) [Tom Double, Inforrm’s Blog, 23 April 2025]
Nicholas Sinanis, ‘Corrective justice, punishment by damages and tort history’
INTRODUCTION Those who seek to understand tort law theoretically, says Weinrib, ‘do not start with a blank slate, but with the familiar normative practice known as tort law’. According to a leading group of modern tort theorists, this practice is best understood as cohering around a single norm of corrective justice. Tort law is said […]
Book Symposium: Haim Abraham, Tort Liability in Warfare: States’ Wrongs and Civilians’ Rights (2024)
A tort lawyer’s perspective on Tort Liability in Warfare: States’ Wrongs and Civilians’ Rights (Paula Giliker) An English foreign relations law perspective on Tort Liability in Warfare: States’ Wrongs and Civilians’ Rights (Uglješa Grušić) Breaking the silence – Redressing belligerent wrongs (Luke Moffett) Developing tort liability in warfare: a reply (Haim Abraham) ——!!!!!!!!!!!!—— King’s Law […]
Liubomir Nikiforov, ‘Are We Forcing Companies to Be “Fair”?’
ABSTRACT Europe may soon experience a new wave of digital consumer protection regulation. One would be forgiven for rolling their eyes upon hearing the words ‘new EU digital regulation’. After all, in the past couple of years, Brussels has enacted a bulk of new digital measures,such as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets […]
Call for Papers: British Legal History Conference, Nottingham, 1-4 July 2026
This year the conference theme is ‘Law and Governance’. This draws upon the longstanding interplay between law and governance, emphasising the ways in which legal systems are shaped by, and in turn shape, structures of authority and power. While law has often been understood as a system of rules or doctrines, its relationship with governance […]
Bahadir Koksal, ‘Digitalization of Debt Enforcement Systems: Smart Contracts or AI Solutions?’
ABSTRACT The global rise of automated debt collection practices has created an urgent need to reimagine public enforcement systems. While private actors increasingly deploy digital tools to streamline debt collection, public enforcement mechanisms remain largely analog, creating inefficiencies and procedural barriers that harm both creditors and debtors. This Article proposes a novel framework for modernizing […]
Burch and Gluck, ‘Plaintiffs’ Process: Civil Procedure, MDL, and a Day in Court’
ABSTRACT If the 1970 decision in Goldberg v Kelly marked the heyday of a focus on plaintiffs’ constitutional rights in civil procedure, the years since then have been largely defendant-centric, with decades of due process jurisprudence now developed to protect where and how defendants can be sued. But that defendant-centricity is beginning to change. We […]
Ethan Leib, ‘Should Statutory Interpretation and Contract Interpretation Be Harmonized?’
ABSTRACT This paper develops four case studies about how states have harmonized or separated their statutory interpretation regimes and their contract interpretation regimes. After exploring the choices of Texas, Alaska, New York, and Alabama – all of which take different approaches to their lumping or splitting – the paper seeks to make state courts more […]
Timothy Holbrook, ‘Copyright Extraterritoriality’
ABSTRACT The presumption against extraterritoriality is a fundamental principle of US law, yet its application to copyright law remains unsettled. In recent years, the Supreme Court has formalized a two-step methodology for assessing the extraterritorial scope of federal statutes, culminating in RJR Nabisco, Inc v European Community. Despite this doctrinal shift, lower courts have inconsistently […]
Man Him Lee, ‘Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust UKSC 1: no quarter for deserving claimants’
INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court decision in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust arose from three conjoined cases – Paul, Polmear v Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, and Purchase v Ahmed – each presenting tragic circumstances of familial trauma following clinical negligence. Each claimant had suffered psychiatric harm as a result of witnessing the death or […]