Permission slip-ups.
Here is a thoroughly decent cove: Knight of Malta; Knight of the Garter; much loved husband, father, and grandfather; blood donor; and lord lieutenant of one of England's oldest counties. Eggs don't come any better. But not even Sir Gervais is perfect. Fifty years ago, in his...

Justice in Middlesex; a brief history of the Uxbridge Magistrates' court.
9781904380399 Justice in Middlesex; a brief history of the Uxbridge Magistrates' court. Bowlt, Eileen M. Waterside Press 2007 96 pages $19.95 Paperback KD7111 Bowlt is a historian of England's former Middlesex...

Peralta is Sandigan Presiding Justice; Peralta takes over from De Castro who moved to SC.
Byline: GENALYN D. KABILING President Arroyo yesterday appointed Sandiganbayan Associate Justice Diosdado M. Peralta, one of the magistrates who convicted former President Joseph Estrada for plunder, as new Presiding Justice of the graft court. Peralta will assume the post vacated by Teresita Leonardo de Castro,...

The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood.
Robert J. Sharpe and Patricia I. McMahon, The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). Pp. xi, 269. In their book, The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, (1) Robert...

Bearing witness to a crime.
'You had better examine your consciences,' Jon Castte told officials at the hastily convened British magistrates' court. He and fellow crew member Pete Bouquet, part of the 'People's Navy', had been put on trial for entering the three-mile (five-kilometre) exclusion zone around Diego Garcia which forms part of the...

Town solicitor to resign next month; Sargent taking District Court job.
Byline: Karen Nugent CLINTON - After 12 years in office, Town Solicitor Dennis P. Sargent said yesterday he is resigning next month, and has accepted a new job as assistant clerk magistrate of the Clinton District Court. The court will now have two assistant magistrates,...

House ready to back Senate on Charter change.
Byline: BEN R. ROSARIO The House of Representatives is willing to back the Senate in its bid to convene Congress into a constituent assembly for the purpose of revising the Charter. However, Speaker Prospero Nograles said the Senate may only count on the support of...

The technology of unequal rights for women: patent drawings of a voting machine.
In 1878, Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California introduced to the Senate an amendment to the Constitution "Conferring upon Women the Right of Suffrage." Drafted by Susan B. Anthony, this same amendment would be introduced on a near-yearly basis until its final passage by Congress on May 19, 1919....

Italian magistrates investigate McLaren.
Monza, Italy (Reuters) -- Italian magistrates have told Formula One leader McLaren it is under investigation as part of inquiries into the leak of a 780-page technical dossier from rivals Ferrari. "The team was informed on Saturday evening by Modena magistrates that they are involved in an...

Philippine Judges Association annual convention at the historic landmark Manila Hotel.
As the organization of magistrates of the courts in the Philippines, the Philippine Judges Association has been a partner of the judicial branch of government in maintaining the highest degree of professionalism among its members and has contributed to the continuous reform of the judicial system in order to...