Articles tagged as EU Law
EU law, or European Union law, is a system of law that is specific to the 28 members of the European Union. This system overrules the national law of each member country if there is a conflict between the national law and the EU law.
Latest Law Papers tagged as EU Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
Le Fanu v Malcolmson - 1848
Case Summaries
The Plaintiffs were the owners of various factories in Ireland. They raised an action of libel against newspaper publishers....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
International Transport Roth GmbH v Secretary of State
Case Summaries
The defendant, the Home Secretary, had introduced rules regarding the liability of HGV drivers entering the United Kingdom with......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
R (Gentle) v Foreign Secretary
Case Summaries
The claimants were the mothers of two British servicemen killed serving in Iraq. Inquests were to be held into the circumstances......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Lister v Forth Dry Dock
Case Summaries
Following financial difficulties, the defendants, Forth Dry Dock, entered receivership. Forth Dry Dock was sold to a third party company......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
The Principles of Supremacy
EU Law
The principle of direct effect was created by the ECJ in the revolutionary case of Van Gend en Loos. Effectively it confers direct effect on EC law......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Judicial Protection of Prisoners Rights
Judicial Law
The issue of prisoners’ rights has recently taken to the headlines of our national newspapers once again, the focus this time on the matter of overcrowding. Mr. Justice Michael Reilly,...
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
European Union Council
EU Law
European Union Council. Before I take up the question of undemocratic nature of the institutional structure of EU, I would like to consider the major power-wielder institutions....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
EU Legislation
EU Law
When the Noxious Plant Directive was adopted in December 2006, it should have been implemented by all Member States by January 2008,...
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
UK and EU Law on Business Reorganizations and Its Effect on the Employers and Employees
EU Law
The European Union arose out of the 1957 treaty of Rome...
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
The European Union’s Institutional Structure and the Institutions
EU Law
The institutions of the European Union form a complex and unique polity and, in determining whether or not this structure and the law making powers......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
What is Direct Effect?
EU Law
First of all what is Direct effect, it is a rule that goes under the European Union law and the European Court of justice established the Direct effect...
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Kaya v Turkey (1999) 28 EHRR 1
Case Summaries
Kaya v Turkey (1999) 28 EHRR 1. Unlawful killing by state action and failure to bring to justice the perpetrator(s)....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
The UK is Bound by Laws of the EU
EU Law
Courts of the UK, when facing an issue regarding EU Laws often seek guidance from the European Court of Justice. Citizens of member states......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Hughes v Morris | Criminal Law Case Summary
Case Summaries
Case Summary of E Ivor Hughes Educational Foundation v Miss J E Morris & Others 2015 WL 3875656 (EAT)...
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
The Community Designs Regulation
EU Law
The Community Designs Regulation was adopted on 12 December 2001.A Community Design has been categorised into unregistered Community design and registered Community design....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
HP Bulmer Ltd v J Bollinger SA
Case Summaries
The appellants, Bulmer, created a product called Babycham which they also described as ‘champagne perry’. The claimants, Bollinger, asserted that the......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Kokkinakis v Greece - Case Summary
Case Summaries
Kokkinakis v Greece 1993 ECHR 20. Freedoms under article 9, article 10 and article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights...
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
European Democracy Before and After the Lisbon Treaty
EU Law
It has been many decades ago since when present European Union, as we know it now, started its long way of ......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Dhanani v Crasnianski
Case Summaries
The defendant, Mr Crasnianski was a scientist and inventor. He met the claimant, Mr Dhanani by chance on the Eurostar whilst travelling from Paris to......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
European Court Justice Treaty
EU Law
European Court Justice Treaty. Article 234 of the EC Treaty, is a judicial device which provides the European Court of Justice (ECJ) with the power to ensure that the law established by the Treaties has the......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Euro Brokers Holdings Ltd v Monecor (London) Ltd
Case Summaries
Case Summary of Euro Brokers Holdings Ltd v Monecor (London) Ltd [2003] 1 BCLC 506. Passing resolutions and special resolutions, Companies Act 2006....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Free Movement of Companies
EU Law
The paper analyses the arguments for a 14th Company Law Directive. In analysing this issue, the research will focus on current European company law and analyse......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
Case Summaries
On the 29th January 1972, the appellant was instructed by members of the IRA to drive them to a specific location in Belfast. One of the men in the car......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Human Rights Freedom
Human Rights Law
Human Rights refers to the fundamental rights and freedom enjoyed by human beings, mainly dealing with individual rights and responsibilities......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Matthews v Ministry of Defence - Summary
Case Summaries
Matthews was an electrical mechanic in the Royal Navy for some 13 years. Decades after his service ended he was diagnosed as having asbestos-related......
Last modified: 13th Jul 2019
