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Transblawg | 31. Januar 2005 —The crimeinfo website has been put together by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London (my old college). This site has been funded by rethinking CRIME & PUNISHMENT (correct use of capitals not guaranteed. It may...…

Transblawg | 26. Januar 2005 —In the entry House of Lords upholds Human Rights Act on December 17 2004, there was some heated discussion in the comments with the few select regular commenters here. I feel somewhat vindicated by today’s article in the Independent, headed...…

Transblawg | 21. Januar 2005 —Spiegel Online has a curiously named section Fishwrap (Want to know what the German papers are saying?). It’s illustrated by a picture of two herring, I think, in a German tabloid-sized newspaper. I presume it’s named after the Guardian’s The...…

Transblawg | 11. Januar 2005 —Die Zisterzienser-Mönche von der Insel Caldey vor der walisischen Küste schweigen meistens, doch haben sie ihr Schweigen unterbrochen (es ist in dringenden Fällen erlaubt) um sich in einem Rechtsstreit um ungerechtfertigte Entlassung zu verteidigen. (Ihr Online-Shop verkauft u.a. Lavendelwasser über…

Transblawg | 8. Januar 2005 —(Mainly British usage) The term common law has several meanings, such as: 1. (in contrast to local law) DEF The law common to the whole of England after 1066, as opposed tolocal law, which had existed before 1066 and continued...…

Transblawg | 7. Januar 2005 —The term common law is widely known outside England and Wales, to use the word known loosely, for sometimes the term is misunderstood. Common law is not custom (Gewohnheitsrecht). Custom may play a role in English law, as it does...…

Transblawg | 7. Januar 2005 —The four inns of court in London are organizations that barristers belong to, and their names are also used to refer to the areas of London they own. They are called Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn....…

Transblawg | 4. Januar 2005 —Breaking news on In Brief reveals a case of sexual equality where a woman allegedly spiked two men’s drinks with Rohypnol and robbed them: Banker Volker Vogler met Hakki in the rooftop bar of London’s Park Lane Hilton. She went...…

Transblawg | 3. Januar 2005 —The English Wikipedia deals with German law among other topics, and how it’s put into English might be of interest. In mid-December, the daily article featured was on Paragraph/Section 175 of the German Criminal Code, which made homosexual acts illegal....…

Transblawg | 21. Dezember 2004 —In Baden-Württemberg heißt es, “Wir können alles, nur kein Hochdeutsch”. Aber Englisch können sie auch nicht alle, und manche von ihnen haben vielleicht Schwierigkeiten, eine gute Übersetzung zu finden - da muss man sich aber nicht schämen, sondern bereit sein,...…

Transblawg | 17. Dezember 2004 —Yesterday, the House of Lords held that imprisoning foreign terror suspects without charging them or trying them is against the European Convention on Human Rights. (Independent - Guardian) Here’s the text of the judgment. Curiously, not a day after the...…

Transblawg | 9. Dezember 2004 —According to the Independent, a bill is being introduced in Britain to put an end to the male primogeniture system. This would affect Prince William’s children, it’s said. Also note the past examples given at the end of the article....…

Transblawg | 3. Dezember 2004 —There are two good sites to find links to online English translations of German statutes. One is the German Law Archive, run by Gerhard Dannemann, and the other is Carob, Robin Stocks’ weblog (click at the top right). However, if...…

Transblawg | 30. November 2004 —The BBC reports: Canny Scots create muckle archive. It’s St. Andrew’s Day, of course. bq. The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) has been put together by the University of Glasgow and has taken three years to compile. Comprising...…

Transblawg | 3. November 2004 —Various stock figures people the pages of English law: the man on the Clapham omnibus, the reasonable man / person, the officious bystander. There is also (new to me), in patent law, the man skilled in the art, possibly to...…