I had thought that we were entering an era of increased transparency in the judicial system (think the supreme court's Twitter account and routine issue of press summaries, publication of judgments from family proceedings) and that legal blogging and legal related blogging was a part of that movement, and a vital component of an ever more essential public legal education movement.
The Policy section of the site provides summaries of European Court judgments on the storage and use of genetic information.
"Dutchbat should not have turned these men over to the Serbs," a summary of the judgment said.
The full judgment will be available at a later date, but it is clear from the verdict and the summary of the judgment that the trial judges recognised that rape, sexual slavery, and other forms of sexual violence were used as a strategic weapon of warfare, intended to harm not only the direct victims, but their families and whole communities.
In a summary of their judgment, Lord Justice Rix and Mr Justice Forbes said their ruling was only concerned with whether the deaths had taken place within the jurisdiction of the UK - so as to fall within the scope of the convention - and, if so, whether there had been a breach of articles two and three regarding an adequate inquiry into those deaths.
"The court held that the object of the ACT act is to provide for marriage equality for same-sex couples and not for some form of legally recognised relationship which is relevantly different from the relationship of marriage which the federal law provides for and recognises," the court said in its summary of the judgment.
"As judges of this tribunal, we firmly hold and believe in the doctrine that 'justice in the future cannot be achieved unless injustice of the past is addressed,' " Justice A. T. M. Fazle Kabir commented in a written summary of the judgment.
Here are key excerpts from the 44-page summary of the judgment.
In the brief summary of the judgment, the verdict reads: "coordinated and repeated trade in narcotics in the form of cultivation, growing and possession…with a market value of over €75,000".
So such a contender might hope that the party would forgive him an early and respectable defeat at its head and that, as in days of yore before political leaders began to face the same sort of summary judgments as football managers—he might get a second crack at the premiership after a Tory interregnum.So much for the Labour Party.
