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Voter Access under Mandatory Voter ID: The Promise and Limits of the Voter Authority Certificate

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Elections Act 2022 introduced mandatory photographic voter identification in UK general elections and English devolved elections, marking a decisive shift toward a universal requirement for in‐person voting. To mitigate access barriers in the absence of a national identity system, it also provided for the introduction of a new Voter ...
Petra Schleiter
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Chris Hilliard
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial. The Scottish Parliament [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Nursing Management, 2004
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
wiley   +1 more source

Consent and Gender‐Based Violence: R v Hobday

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This note analyses the Court of Appeal decision in R v Hobday in the context of the longstanding but controversial caselaw on the relevance of consent to offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) or above. It considers whether the vulnerabilities of victims of gender‐based violence are adequately recognised by the judiciary in an area ...
Mandy Burton
wiley   +1 more source

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