The Department of Law and Criminology at Edge Hill University (England) introduced a three module, challenging, and longitudinal portfolio pathway in 2014. In addition to supporting the work of its campus pro bono law clinic, its underpinning aims were threefold: to enhance and evidence the...

Recent N. Ireland case law contains useful discourse on the nature of detrimental reliance within the context of familial promises, particularly in respect of whether estoppel-based remedies are capable of ‘satisfying the equities' that may have arisen in each situation. A wide variety of...

Our carceral society often conspires to effect a continuum of punishments far beyond that needed to extinguish behaviour and bring about attitude change in offenders (Hudson 1993, p. 32). Recent jurisprudence on family life during incarceration has inverted the concept of the right, framing it...

This article argues that, as tutors, we are bound not only by the rules of contract law (i.e., to avoid breaching the terms of that which was agreed to), but also by our duty of care, and the principles of human rights law that protect the right to education. We must strive to avoid negligent...

This article examines recent jurisprudence from the Chancery Division of the Northern Ireland High Court, to argue that a 'new' variety of kinship trust may be emerging from estoppel-led remedy-granting