About Public Law
Public law is that part of law which governs relationships between individuals and the government, and those relationships between individuals which are of direct concern to society. Public law comprises constitutional law, administrative law, tax law and criminal law, as well as all procedural law.
Judge taken to hospital after family court assault
... Family courts hear both Public Law cases, where children may be removed from their families, and private law cases, where parents are separating...
The online black market cashing in on weight loss jab hype
... Gerard Hanratty, a Public Law expert, says: " You can put lots of different things on a label...
Why I'm seizing the chance to scrutinise the family courts
... Broadly, cases are divided into disputes between separating parents, known as private law, and applications by local authorities to take children into care, which are Public Law...
Scotland Gender Recognition Bill: What are the sticking points?
... Barrister Amanda Jones, who specialises in Public Law, describes a " nightmare complication" that if a person living in Scotland has changed legal sex there, but in the rest of the UK is recognised under their birth sex, it would make the implementation of the Equality Act anywhere in the UK " extremely complicated"...
Afghan refugees made to move school take UK to court
... The Afghan families solicitor, Daniel Rourke, from the Public Law Project, said he was hopeful his clients would win the case and be allowed to return to south London...
The two sides of Scotland's gender law debate
... Aileen McHarg, professor of Public Law and human rights at Durham University s Law School, said there was a third route which opponents of the bill might go down: a challenge under Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which codifies a right to respect for privacy...
Priti Patel faces legal threat over Ukraine visa delays
... The groups Vigil for Visas and Taking Action Over the Homes for Ukraine Visa Delays said they had instructed Amanda Jones, an immigration and Public Law barrister, to explore a potential legal challenge against the Home Office...
Ukraine invasion: UK under pressure to speed up Russia sanctions
... One of the UK s most prominent barristers, Lord Pannick has mainly focused on Public Law, human rights and constitutional matters in his decades-long legal career...
