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Archive: August 2017 (2 Posts)

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The Queen’s Speech 2017

Posted by: Margaret Wood

This is a guest post by Conleth Burns, foreign law intern, who wrote a another post earlier this summer, UK Supreme Court rules “Deport first, appeal later” power is unlawful. On June 21st 2017, HM Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the UK’s Parliament by delivering her 64th Queen’s Speech. Despite being called the “Queen’s Speech,” this …

Posted in: Global Law

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Regulating the Rag and Bone Man

Posted by: Margaret Wood

This is a guest post by Clare Feikert, foreign law specialist for the United Kingdom at the Law Library of Congress. “Instinctively he and we knew then that what we had not use for was nonetheless of worth”, Environment Committee, Second report, Recycling, 1993-94, HC 63-i, at 14. The “rag and bone man,” also known …

Posted in: Global Law