Robert Spicer
Legal Latin: who needs it?
It may appear to outsiders to be bizarre that the main aim of English civil procedure is to avoid litigation. A legal system has become...
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Robert Spicer
Apr 12, 20202 min read
Mediation and money
It may appear to outsiders to be bizarre that the main aim of English civil procedure is to avoid litigation. A legal system has become...
Robert Spicer
Apr 7, 20202 min read
Sexism and the law
Albie Sachs and Joan Hoff Wilson, Sexism and the Law:A study of male beliefs and judicial bias This book, published in 1978, documented...
Robert Spicer
Apr 3, 20202 min read
Individual and collective human rights
For an ex-miner in Blaenau Gwent, suffering from a terminal lung disease, who develops a raging toothache, and cannot afford dentistry,...
Robert Spicer
Mar 31, 20202 min read
QCs, barristers and divorce cases
In the early nineteen-seventies, it was a rule of professional practice, but not of law, that where a QC was instructed, a junior...
Robert Spicer
Mar 26, 20202 min read
George Orwell on English Law
George Orwell Orwell had little interest in the law, but he commented that it was not that anyone imagined the law to be just. Everyone...
Robert Spicer
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Class Justice and the Royal Mint
R v Copeland (Appellant) Class justice Class justice means, essentially, that the principles of justice operate inequitably in favour of...
Robert Spicer
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Lessons from history: the Paris Commune 1871
For ten weeks in 1871, workers, artisans, students and veterans of revolutions took control of the second largest city in Europe. It was...
Robert Spicer
Mar 16, 20201 min read
Comparative health and safety in a war context
Reports of health and safety prosecutions cover, with depressing regularity, incidents involving deaths and injuries caused by crushing....
Robert Spicer
Mar 14, 20203 min read
Noise at work
The question of injury caused by noise at work deserves separate treatment because it has been the subject of a distinct line of cases....
Robert Spicer
Mar 5, 20205 min read
Negligence at work: liability for injury and disease
CHAPTER 2: NEGLIGENCE Duty of Care Manufacturer Davie v New Merton Board Mills (1958) A drift (a tapered steel bar) was made by an...
Robert Spicer
Feb 25, 20202 min read
Employment law and tribunals: a critical analysis - Part 5
Employment tribunal procedure The Report of the Donovan Commission in 1968 stated that the aim of the industrial tribunal (as it was then...
Robert Spicer
Feb 20, 20203 min read
Employment law and tribunals: a critical analysis - Part 4
Information technology There is a movement, fortunately not currently particularly successful, towards the replacement of lawyers with...
Robert Spicer
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Employment law and procedure: a critical analysis - Part 3
Workplace stress As well as legal duties under statutes and regulations, employers have obligations under duties imposed by the common...
Robert Spicer
Feb 8, 20203 min read
Employment law and procedure: a critical analysis - Part 2
Complexity To reach a conclusion on this matter involved the court in wading through a monstrous legislative morass, staggering from...
Robert Spicer
Jan 25, 202018 min read
Conspiracy law, class and society - Part 15
The Choice of Conspiracy No prosecution of a political character should be undertaken without the prior consent of the Cabinet. Cabinet...
Robert Spicer
Jan 16, 20202 min read
Employment law and procedure: a critical analysis
Currently, British employment law is a sprawling mass of statutes, regulations and decided cases. The leading textbook – Harvey –...
Robert Spicer
Jan 6, 20203 min read
Legal and professional developments: review of 2019
Access to legal advice and representation There has been no improvement in relation to access to legal services, but rather a...
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...
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