Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2012
This article by John Larkin QC, Attorney General for Northern Ireland, is based on his keynote speech which he delivered at the BIALL Conference which was held in Belfast in June 2012. He discusses the ways in which serendipity can play an important part in researching law, speaks of the frontiers that stand as limitations to contemporary legal research and identifies how these limits can be overcome; and he promotes the importance of both libraries and law librarians.
1 « Si l'on veut me séduire, on n'a que à me donner des livres »
2 Librairie Eric Castéran, (np, nd) (Toulouse, 210) p. 12
3 « Petit in-quarto (164 × 206) veau fauve, plats entièrement fleurdelisés dans un large encadrement de dentelle dorée chiffre en capitales romaines des initiales « PS » dans les angles et au centre d'un grand médaillon … »
4 Application no. 25951/07 (15th March 2011)
5 Ibid.
6 Décision 2010-39 QPC du 6 octobre 2010
7 [2012] 1 AC 725; [2011] UKSC 20
8 Application no. 71463/01; (2009) 49 EHRR 996
9 [2011] UKSC 46
10 Duguit and Monnier Les Constitutions de la France (second edition) (Paris, 1908) p. 79Google Scholar
11 BVerfGE 13,261; BVerfG, Beschluss vom 3.12.1997; BVerfG, Beschluss vom 5.2.2002
12 The 1789 Declaration has constitutional force by virtue of the preamble to the 1958 Constitution of the Fifth Republic.
13 See, for example, Ronzani, ClaudioLineamenti dell'ordinamento giuridico della Repubblica di San Marino (Citta del Vaticano, 2007) pp. 24–5Google Scholar
14 [1985] AC 374 at p.417
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16 Villey, MichelLe Droit Roman Son Actualité 10th edition (Paris, 2005) p. 3Google Scholar
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18 Rodger, AlanThe Courts, the Church and the Constitution Aspects of the Disruption of 1843 (Edinburgh, 2008) The quotation is from page 94Google Scholar.
19 [2005] UKHL 18 at para 14
20 One might wonder what Ulpian would have made of this extension to his doctrine.
21 Application no. 36022/97; (2003) 37 EHRR 28 at p.649
22 ‘The First Report of Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Duties Salaries and Emoluments of the several officers and ministers of justice in all temporal and ecclesiastical courts in Ireland’ (London, 1817) p. 102
23 Provisional Judgment of 19/04/12 in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, Queen's Bench Division between The Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service and The Official Solicitor to the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland
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27 Ibid. pp. 122–4
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30 “second protecteur de l'Acedémie Française” is the sub-title of Kerville's, RenéBiography Le Chancelier Pierre Séguier 2nd edition (Paris, 1875)Google Scholar
31 “La Bibliothèque royale/Pour tout le monde est doctrinale/A celle de Séguier chancelier/Pauvre et riche y vont studier/” quoted in Kerville, RenéLe Chancelier Pierre Séguier 2nd edition (Paris,1875) p. 166Google Scholar