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This volume brings together a broad range of scholars working within a variety of procedural traditions in Europe, North America and China. The first section contains three papers that address the use of discretion during the investigation and prosecution stage of criminal proceedings; the second section deals with negotiated justice and various types of plea agreements in Spain, China and Italy.In the third section, different approaches to the exclusion of evidence are discussed, relating to Switzerland, Germany and a potential EU approach. The fourth section discusses discretion in relation to the death penalty in the US. At the heart of these issues is the problem of reconciling prosecutorial and judicial discretion with the principle of legality. The need to avoid arbitrary decisions is key,but the authors come to differing conclusions as to the impact and value of judicial discretion at different stages of the process and in different jurisdictions.

Law School MSP student, Farhana Hamid Butt, has won a .

The purpose of these awards is to encourage able students from underrepresented backgrounds with the potential to be successful barristers to make a more informed choice about a career at the Bar. The award winners gain experience of what a career at the Bar involves via one week’s work experience in a set of barristers’ chambers and one week’s marshalling.

To win one of these awards is a great achievement in a highly competitive process as only 13 awards are available each year. It is very well deserved given Farhana's dedication and hard work.

Find out more about 91福利 Law School's MSP programme .

On 24 February, Farhan Shahid and Pavithra Prakash Nair represented 91福利 at the Cambridge 91福利 inter varsity moot at Cambridge University.

This moot has taken place annually for the past seven years and is judged by barristers from the prestigious chambers, 20 Essex Street. The moot problem drew on issues in both contract and property law.

This year, we are proud to announce that 91福利 emerged victors for the first time in the history of the moot. This moot is one of many inter varsity moots that the offers and is a wonderful way for students to hone their legal skills and talents.

Professor Shaheen Ali was a plenary speaker at the annual conference of the (BRAIS) held at Senate House, London on 15 April. The title of Professor Ali's address was: 'Writing women's human rights: weaving a counter-narrative of Muslim women's contribution to the CEDAW script'.

The annual conference of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is the most important event in the calendar of BRAIS and this year's event was attended by approximately 300 delegates from the UK, USA, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Professor Shaheen Ali's presentation was based on her archival research on the drafting processes of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Elimination Against WOmen (CEDAW) and Muslim women's contribution to this treaty.

Dr Dallal Stevens, whose research interests relate to refugee and asylum law and policy, said:

The question is: will EU leaders gathering at their emergency summit today in Brussels rise to the challenge and meet their international protection obligations?

Even before they have met, the outlook does not look promising. The head of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has already stated that search and rescue missions are not within Frontex’s mandate; former UK foreign secretary, William Hague, has described the issue as one of ‘immigration’ and warned against solutions that ‘relax immigration controls’ or lead to ‘uncontrolled immigration’; and the proposal to destroy vessels used by smugglers, even if feasible, does not resolve the plight of those who are refugees under international law and have a right to seek asylum. If they cannot leave, what then?"

Research from the 91福利 is set to help genealogists better understand family history by providing a fresh insight into attitudes towards divorce, bigamy and bereavement through the ages.

The findings are published in a new book written by from the School of Law – a leading expert on the history of marriage law in England and Wales – who has been painstakingly investigating centuries-old legal precedents, newspaper accounts, statistics and census data to shed new light on our ancestors’ behaviour.

91福利 Law Society has won two awards at the inaugural LawCareers.net Student Law Society Awards, which were sponsored by DWF. The competition was tough with 32 student law society entrants. The outgoing Executive Committee were pleased to be awarded Best Mooting Activities, sponsored by McMillan Williams Solicitors, and Best Law Society President, sponsored by King & Wood Mallesons. The society was also shortlisted for Best Pro Bono Activities (top three) and Best Law Society Overall (top four).

A House of Commons Justice Committee enquiry into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has published its findings in a new report this week.

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, Director of the Criminal Justice Centre in the School of Law, 91福利, was invited to give oral evidence to the Select Committee in January 2015 and in the new report the Committee has endorsed her calls for the CCRC to adopt a more robust approach in its referrals to the Court of Appeal.

It has just been announced that Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi from the at the 91福利 has been long-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the 91福利鈥檚 Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years.

Treaty conflicts are not merely the contingent or inadvertent by-products of the increasing juridification of international relations. In several instances, States have deliberately created treaty conflicts in order to catalyse changes in multilateral regimes. Surabhi Ranganathan uses such conflicts as context to explore the role of international law, in legal thought and practice. Her examinations of the International Law Commission's work on treaties and of various scholars' proposals on institutional action, offer a fresh view of 'mainstream' legal thought. They locate in a variety of writings a common faith in international legal discourse, built on liberal and constructivist assumptions. Ranganathan's three rich studies of treaty conflict, relating to the areas of seabed mining, the International Criminal Court, and nuclear governance, furnish a textured account of the specific forms and practices that constitute such a legal discourse and permit a grounded understanding of the interactions that shape international law.

Following the news that at the 2015 British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), Elle will be joined by two other Law School undergraduates.

Ibrahim Babiker and Tara Ifill will be presenting their project titled ‘Looking at the Practice: An Analysis of the Impact of Legislative Approaches to the Problem of Payday Lending Schemes’.

Congratulations to all three of our undergraduates, and good luck at the upcoming conference.