Robert Spicer
Legal and professional developments: review of 2019
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Robert Spicer
Dec 27, 20199 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society Part 14
Attempted Reform On Second Reading, my hon. friends and I thought this was a diabolically awful Bill and we voted against it. Since then...
Robert Spicer
Dec 11, 20196 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 13
Conspiracy and the Trade Unions since 1920 The threat of industrial strife is almost as damaging to the welfare of the nation as the...
Robert Spicer
Dec 4, 20194 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 12
Public Morality One of the first major cases in the recent resurgence of conspiracy was DPP v Shaw, where the publisher of the Ladies...
Robert Spicer
Nov 14, 20192 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 9
The Hain Case On 21 August 1972, Peter Hain, who six months earlier had attacked the use of ‘political’ conspiracy charges, was convicted...
Robert Spicer
Nov 7, 20193 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 8
Twentieth-Century Dissidents We do not put people on trial in this country for their political views (Judge Alan King-Hamilton, Persons...
Robert Spicer
Oct 31, 20192 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society -Part 7
The most recent Irish republican cases to be cited as precedents for English purposes are those of Coughlan (Joseph) and Coughlan...
Robert Spicer
Oct 27, 20193 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 6
In November 1974 21 people were killed in the Birmingham bomb outrages. Following these murders, the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary...
Robert Spicer
Oct 17, 20193 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 5
Irish Cases since 1969 A detailed examination of the relationship between criminal law and Northern Ireland is outside the scope of this...
Robert Spicer
Oct 11, 20192 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 4
Twentieth-Century Cases By 1916, Irish nationalism had declined to the same extent that Dublin was regarded as a provincial British city...
Robert Spicer
Sep 26, 20196 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 3
The second half of the nineteenth-century saw the struggle for Irish independence manifested in Fenianism, a movement which originated...
Robert Spicer
Sep 20, 20193 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 2
Nineteenth-Century Cases An early example is Forbes. This involved a plot, not to overthrow the government or to cause an insurrection,...
Robert Spicer
Sep 13, 20193 min read
Conspiracy Law, Class and Society- Part 1
Treason, Treason Felony and Sedition Nineteenth-century Irish conspiracy cases cannot be considered in isolation from treason, treason...
Robert Spicer
Sep 6, 20193 min read
Workplace Stress- Part 10
Reasonable foreseeability Reasonable conduct by employer Ramwell v Tesco Stores plc (2000) HSB 289: 23, Manchester county court R was...
Robert Spicer
Aug 30, 20194 min read
Workplace stress- Part 9
Duty to provide safe system of work Two nervous breakdowns Walker v Northumberland County Council [1995] IRLR 35, High Court W, a senior...
Robert Spicer
Aug 25, 20193 min read
Workplace stress - Part 8
Common Law: Formally Reported Cases Duty of care Foreseeability Fraser v State Hospitals Board for Scotland (2000) July 11, Scottish...
Robert Spicer
Aug 18, 20193 min read
Workplace stress - Part 7
Is the relationship between employer and employee in itself necessarily stressful? If one takes the view that the relationship between...
Robert Spicer
Aug 10, 20193 min read
Workplace stress - Part 6
Bullying The dictionary definition of “bully” is a person who makes him or herself a terror to the weak or defenceless. Bullying at work...
Robert Spicer
Aug 3, 20192 min read
Workplace stress - Part 5
Physical symptoms It is generally accepted that workplace stress can result in physical symptoms, for example: Cardio-vascular disease...
Robert Spicer
Jul 29, 20192 min read
Workplace stress - Part 4
TERMINOLOGY Definition of stress The widest definition of stress is anything which makes a person tense, angry, frustrated or angry. This...
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