Table of Contents

Foreword: The Right Honourable The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales;
Preface: Ian McDougall, VP & Legal Director, LexisNexis International;

List of Contributors;
Table of Cases;

PART I - THE RESTRAINT OF KINGS - “BE YOU NEVER SO HIGH …”;

1. The Golden Met-wand and Measure - Prohibitions del Roy (Matthew Seys-Llewellyn);
2. The Trial of Charles I (Geoffrey Robertson QC);
3. Elected Leader or Sun King? The Supreme Court Decides whether the President is above the Law in US v Nixon (Professor Tamara Rice Lave);

PART II - MODERN PUBLIC LAW;
4. Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission: A Beacon for Accountability (Michael Fordham QC);
5. Giving Effect to the Intentions of Parliament: Pepper v Hart (Oliver Jones);
6. A Hunting We Will Go? R (Jackson and Others) v Attorney General (Alexander Horne);
7. ‘On remand in police custody’ or how the QPC provides litigants with recourse to the consititutional courts (Professor Bertrand Mathieu);
8. Kable’s Case and the Rule of Law (The Hon Kevin Lindgren AM QC);
9. An important strike for freedom of speech: Dhooharika v Director of Public Prosecutions (Mark Stephens);

PART III - LAW AND WAR;
10. Silence of the laws: Dissent and democracy in Liversidge v Anderson (Dexter Dias QC);
11. The First Nuremberg Trial and its Enduring Legacy: “Even Rulers Are Under God And The Law” (Steven Kay QC);

PART IV - LAW, EQUALITY, RELIGION AND DISCRIMINATION – THREE US CASES;
12. Brown v Board of Education (Kenneth R Thompson II);
13. The Right of Privacy: Roe v Wade (Linda Greenhouse);
14. “Respect for their Private Lives”: Lawrence v Texas (Stephen Hetherington);

PART V - LAW, EQUALITY, RELIGION AND DISCRIMINATION – THREE BRITISH CASES;
15. Banning the Jilbab in School – A Violation of a Pupil’s Right to Manifest Religion? R (Sabina Begum) v Governors of Denbigh High School (Lynne Townley);
16. Having to Pick and Choose: Eweida & Others v the United Kingdom (James Wilson);
17. There’s Nowt so Queer as Folk: Bull vs. Hall (Karon Monaghan QC);

PART VI - CIVIL LAW;
18. When Louisa Carlill Caught the ‘Flu: Carlill v The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. (John Randall QC);
19. Disregard the Merits? Interim Injunctions under American Cyanamid Co. v Ethicon Ltd (No.1) (Paul Lowenstein QC & Scott Ralston);
20. Puncturing Metaphor: the Supreme Court and the Corporate Veil: Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd & Others (John Wilson QC);
21. A First Step Towards A European ‘Compensation Culture’ And A Catalyst for Change: Courage v Crehan (Collette Rawnsley);

A Final Word;
Index