Entries for 'Lloyd Duhaime'

Lord Chancellor's Department ... this is the equivalent of other nations' ministry or department of justice. This site is rich in free legal info!
Court Service(s) ... including the High Court, the Crown Court and the county courts.
Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court ... Representation for persons under legal disability, and others, in county court or High Court proceedings in England and Wales. Technical and practical information for the legal profession, and for members of the general public.
Semple Piggot Price Aquino ... known as "SPPA"; a legal training firm site with a massive amount of free legal information and offering part-time courses for the LLB degree of the University of London.
Land Law ... an online book "The New Land Law: A Commentary on the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996" by Roger Horne, a London barrister.
LIBS (Latest Information for Barristers & Solicitors)

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English real-estate law was imported, through colonization, into the earlier forms of law in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Many of these states, or their territories, have since modified this historical law, to varying degrees. A study of the old feudal land system of England provides us with an invaluable glimpse of legal history regulating the most valuable asset of them all: land. In medieval times, land was the sole form of wealth.

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The formal name of the United Kingdom is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It comprises, for the purposes of international representation, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Parliament of the United Kingdom meets in London. However, all four components of the UK have separate legal systems, except for Wales which tends to share the same court structure and body of law. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own laws and court structure. The laws of Norther Ireland are in many points similar to the laws of England. As such, there is no such thing as uniform "United Kingdom law" except for a few rare pieces of legislation touching on taxation or social security.

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