A Prime Minister is the head of a cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not a head of state or chief executive officer of their respective nation, rather they are a head of government, serving typically under ...

Understanding the Power of Judicial Review Judicial review is a process under which executive or legislative actions are subject to review by the judiciary. A court with authority for judicial review may invalidate laws acts and governmental actions that are incompatible with a higher authority: an ...

Proportionality is a general principle in law which covers several special (although related) concepts. The concept of proportionality is used as a criterion of fairness and justice in statutory interpretation processes, especially in constitutional law, as a logical method intended to assist in ...

Civil law, or civilian law, is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, the main feature of which is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law. This ...

Selective incorporation sounds like a way of filing articles of incorporation form a new business. But selective incorporation has nothing to do with business corporations. It’s a constitutional law concept that refers to the way that selected provisions of the ...

  In recent years there have been few attempts to clearly and precisely define the "right to privacy". In 2005, students of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology asserted that in fact the right to privacy "should not be defined as ...

Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rule making, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. Administrative law is considered a branch of publiclaw. As a body of law, administrative law ...

If you have been charged with an offence, it is important for you to know what evidence the Crown prosecutor has against you so that your lawyer can properly prepare your defence. The legal term for your right to know ...

Over the years experts have argued for the limits on parliamentary sovereignty to be recognised and that courts should not defend statutes which attack democracy, the rule of the law and civil liberties. This trend of arguing for limits to ...

[caption id="attachment_13888" align="alignnone" width="566"] Gary Lucken: 01892 523302 / 07795 831395 92 Culverden Down Tunbridge Wells TN4 9TA Justice Secretary Jack Straw says he is "frustrated" at the way the 1998 Human Rights Act has sometimes been interpreted by the ...