Unpublished Papers
Challenging the state: The tort of misfeasance in public office and the case of Three Rivers District Council v The Bank of England, ExpressO (2009)
The tort of misfeasance in public office is designed to target “the deliberate and dishonest...
Members of Parliament’s privileges and subjects’ protection from libel, ExpressO (2008)
In Buchanan v Jennings [2002] 3 NZLR 145 (CA); [2004] UKPC 36; [2005] 2 All...
Peerage privileges since the House of Lords Act 1999, ExpressO (2008)
The recent and ongoing reform of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, which...
Hard and soft constitutionalism, ExpressO (2008)
This article looks at some of the theories that have been posited to help explain...
The application of Tudor sumptuary laws to academic dress: Doctors in scarlet?, ExpressO (2008)
Sumptuary legislation played an important social role in Tudor society, as it did in earlier...
The Legitimacy of government and the normative influence of the Crown on a political construct, ExpressO (2008)
The Crown holds the conceptual place held by the State in those legal systems derived...
The rise and fall of states: Some constitutional modelling, ExpressO (2008)
From Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, onwards – and indeed even earlier...
Constitutional responses to paradigmatic shifts in technology, ExpressO (2007)
The technological revolution affecting the global economy has profound implications not merely for society, but...
Misfeasance in public office and Three Rivers District Council v The Bank of England: The collapse of BCCI, ExpressO (2007)
The tort of misfeasance in public office is designed to target “the deliberate and dishonest...