Abortion in Northern Ireland: has the Rubicon been crossed?

On 7 June 2018, the Supreme Court delivered their long anticipated ruling on whether the abortion laws in Northern Ireland are compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. Although the case was dismissed on procedural grounds, a majority of the court held that, obiter, the current Northern Irish law was incompatible with the right to respect for private and family life, protected by Article 8 ECHR, “insofar as it prohibits abortion in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality”. This Supreme Court decision, seen alongside the May 2018 Irish referendum liberalising abortion, and the 5 June 2018 Parliamentary debate seeking to liberalise abortion laws in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, places renewed focus upon the abortion laws of Northern Ireland and Great Britain, which suggests that the ‘halfway house’ of the Abortion Act 1967 Act finally be close to being reformed to hand the decision of abortion to women themselves

Magna Carta, the Rule of Law and the Limits on Government

This paper surveys the legal tradition that links Magna Carta with the modern concepts of the rule of law and the limits on government. It documents that the original understanding of the rule of law included substantive commitments to individual freedom and limited government. Then, it attempts at explaining how and why such commitments were lost to a formalist interpretation of the rule of law from 1848 to 1939. The paper concludes by arguing how a revival of the substantive commitments of the rule of law is central in a project of reshaping modern states

Commentaries on the laws of England. [electronic resource] : In four books The fifth edition. By Sir William Blackstone, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Honourable Court of common Pleas.

Vols. 3 and 4 have imprint: Dublin: printed for John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, Mary Hay, Elizabeth Lynch, James Williams, John Milliken, Josiah Sheppard, Charles Ingham, and Thomas Walker. MDCCLXXIII.Backlog2007Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Harvard University Law Library

An analysis of the laws of England. [electronic resource] : To which is perfixed [sic] an introductory discourse on the study of the law. By William Blackstone, Esq. D.C.L. Barrister at Law, Vinerian Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Oxford, and Solicitor General to Her Majesty.

P. lxi misnumbered lx.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Harvard University Law Library

Commentaries on the laws of England. [electronic resource] : Book the second. By William Blackstone, Esq. solicitor general to her majesty.

In this edition, catchword p.3: use.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library