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• ... that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to have been elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?

• ... that the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?

• ... that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton (pictured) was instrumental in establishing a UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?

• ... that Leiden Law School is housed in the Kamerlingh Onnes Building, the former laboratory of physicist and Nobel laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes?

• ... that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?

• ... that legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankford committed an early form of suicide by cop?

• ... that Johann Schwarzhuber, the leader of the Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first Ravensbrück concentration camp trial?

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• ... that Meherzia Labidi Maïza was proud of including women's rights in the post-Arab Spring Tunisian constitution?

• ... that Clive Ponting was found not guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury even after the judge, Sir Anthony McCowan, summed up strongly in favour of the prosecution?

• ... that Sir William Garrow, a barrister from the Regency England period whose work was largely forgotten for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was recently cited in a 2006 Irish Court of Criminal Appeal case?

• ... that one of the tasks of the Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners Board is to prevent conveyancing monopolies developing in England and Wales?

• ... that the brother of the President of Tunisia was found guilty of laundering drug money in the couscous connection trial?

• ... that Sir William Fortescue was prompted to become a barrister by the death of his wife?

• ... that in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the refusal of the International Longshoremen's Association to unload cargo from the Soviet Union was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act?

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• ... that in Miller v Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning, MR?

• ... that the Isla dela Victoria resort and casino under construction in Kawit Island, Cebu City, Philippines, is named for a city officer murdered for his role in the fight against illegal fishing?

• ... that British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?

• ... that in English trust law, constructive trusts are used for things as varied as land transfers, bribery and murder?

• ... that the legal reforms that came about as a result of the Glanville Davies affair were far weaker than those initially proposed?

• ... that England's regulations on bread sales, as originated from the Assize of Bread and Ale (1266), were enforced for six centuries?

• ... that, according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya, corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their operations in other countries violate customary international law?

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• ... that courts and legal scholars in some countries have expressed support for the idea that even a properly ratified constitutional amendment can be unconstitutional?

• ... that in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?

• ... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open Pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?

• ... that according to legal theorist Jiang Shigong, China has two constitutions?

• ... that according to Conor Gearty, private and public nuisance in English law "have little in common except the accident of sharing the same name"?

• ... that after a meeting in 1940, the English Judges' Council did not meet for another 10 years?

• ... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers of the Basic Law" in the Federal Republic of Germany, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights" in the 1949 constitution but was voted down?

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• ... that the Prime Minister of Hyderabad Sir Kishen Pershad (pictured) passed the Mulki regulation which gave more preference to local citizens than Britishers in administrative posts of the state?

• ... that the Leges Henrici Primi (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?

• ... that English barrister Joseph Keble went to the Court of King's Bench every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a brief for a client?

• ... that the English case of Pepper v Hart, at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?

• ... that according to one theory, English secret trusts are entirely constructed by the courts?

• ... that St. Louis County police officers arrested engineers and announcers of KXLW because their tower violated local zoning laws?

• ... that two sections of the British 1973 Sale of Goods Act were completely identical?

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• ... that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?

• ... that although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom, it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada?

• ... that André Langrand-Dumonceau, a major Belgian financier of the mid-19th century, was convicted of financial fraud, tried in absentia, and died in exile?

• ... that although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, the report and Act disagreed in many ways?

• ... that Henry Swinburne was the first canon law writer to write his works in English?

• ... that in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment?

• ... that the LGBT Centre was finally registered after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?

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• ... that prior to joining the Supreme Court of Chile, Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the MOP-Gate case?

• ... that detonating nuclear weapons is specifically forbidden in Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998?

• ... that a founding abbess of the restored convent of Sant'Ambrogio della Massima in Rome was convicted of pretending to be a saint?

• ... that coroners' juries in English inquests can bring in an open verdict that confirms a death is suspicious without specifying how it came about?

• ... that in English law, Quistclose may be constructive trusts, resulting trusts, express trusts, or completely illusory?

• ... that Sir Thomas Clarke was only offered the position of Master of the Rolls after William Murray turned it down?

• ... that Claude Batchelor, a former trumpet player with the 1st Cavalry Division Band, was convicted on charges related to collaboration with China during the Korean War?

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• ... that in Young v. Facebook, Inc., Judge Jeremy Fogel found that Facebook was not a physical place for the purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act, despite its having "posts" and "walls"?

• ... that the landmark 1924 case Tournier v National Provincial and Union Bank of England clarified English law on the obligations that a bank has to protect the confidentiality of its customers?

• ... that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries, not confirmed ones?

• ... that Serbian poisoner Baba Anujka (pictured), aged over 90 at the time of her trial, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor?

• ... that in England and Wales, legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the Hale Commission?

• ... that by the time Lyon's Inn was dissolved it was being run by only two of the standard twelve governors, neither of whom had any idea what their duties were?

• ... that Malaysian blogger Alvin Tan was put on trial for sedition after posting a photograph of himself eating pork as a Ramadan greeting?

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