In recent years, there has been extensive international debate about lethal autonomous weapons, referred to by some as ‘killer robots’. With disagreements regarding how they should be defined and if they should be banned, this article explores these issues as well as the UK’s stance on them.
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Question for Short Debate on 26 March: Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (457 KB, PDF)
This Note provides an overview of the history and actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) under the leadership of Joseph Kony, the warrant issued for his arrest under the auspices of the International Criminal Court, and the ongoing efforts to apprehend him and other senior LRA commanders.
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Question for Short Debate on 26 March: Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (457 KB, PDF)
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 provides the UK Supreme Court and the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland with the power to depart from retained EU case law after the end of the transition period. Draft regulations, introduced by the Government in October 2020, seek to extend this power to the Court of Appeal and other equivalent courts and tribunals. This article looks at the detail of the regulations and recent scrutiny that has taken place.
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‘Hate crime’ is used to describe a range of criminal behaviour that a victim or other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person’s disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity. These aspects of a person’s identity are referred to as ‘protected characteristics’. There have been recent calls to extend the protected characteristics to cover sex and gender. This would see misogyny become a hate crime.
