New Chairman
Lord Dyson,
Justice of the Supreme Court
elected as Chairman of the Society
Forthcoming Lecture
Monday 20 February 2012
Professor Richard Bellamy
The democratic legitimacy
of international human rights
conventions: parliament,
political constitutionalism
and the Hirst case
For more details click here
Statute Law:
Making Legislation
For details of this exciting new SLS project, with link to video series on iTunes-U
click here
The Statute Law Society has good contacts across the range of bodies concerned with the production of legislation. A series of filmed interviews has been completed and distributed on DVDs to Law Schools. The DVDs feature a series of short interviews conducted with people directly involved in the process of the production of Acts of Parliament. For more information and a link to the DVDs on iTunesU click here
General, equal and certain: law reform today and tomorrow. 2011 Annual Lord Renton lecture delivered by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls. 28 November 2011.
Rights-Consistent Interpretation and the Human Rights Act 1998. An article by The Hon. Mr Justice Sales and Richard Ekins. (First published by Thomson Reuters (Legal) Ltd in the Law Quarterly Review, April 2011, and reproduced by agreement with the Publishers.)
The judicial role in the interpretation of statutes. Presentation given to members of the Netherlands Academy for Legislation by The Hon Mr Justice Sales, Judge of the High Court, Chancery Division and Council Member of the Statute Law Society. April 2011
Yemshaw and the constitutionality of updating statutes. Lecture given by Richard Ekins, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, on 9 May 2011.
Enacting Legislation - a Civil Servant's Perspective Lecture given by Paul Regan, Head of Resources, Olympic and Paralympic Security Directorate, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, Home Office. 31 January 2011.
2010
Three Challenges to the Rule of Law in the Modern English Legal System Lecture given by The Hon Mr Justice Sales to the Statute Law Society on 10 December 2010.
Lord Renton Lecture: Giving Effect to Legislation: how to avoid missing the point Stephen Laws CB, First Parliamentary Counsel. 10 November 2010
Statute Law Society Conference - 9 October 2010 |
The Rise of the Strasbourgeoisie: Judicial Activism and the ECHR. The Rt Hon Lord Justice Elias.
Statute Law Society Conference 2008 - Belfast A comparison of the principle of legality and section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998. * Mr Justice Sales Cold-blooded and warm-blooded presumptions. Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe Presuming that Legislation Favours a Peace Process. Prof. Brice Dickson Skating on thin ice - what happened to 'strict' interpretation of criminal and tax legislation. Prof. Stefan Vogenauer Statutory Interpretation in the context of the Irish Constitution. Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan HRA section 3 and the limits of purposive interpretation. Jan van Zyl Smit |
Ian McLeod, member of the Council of the Statute Law Society since 1996, has recently published a new book, Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting. |