Case Summaries: 4 November 2002

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THE FOLLOWING notes of judgments were prepared by the reporters of the All England Law Reports.

Northern Ireland

Robinson v Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and ors ([2002] UKHL 32); HL (Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hutton, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough, Lord Millett) 25 July 2002.

THE NORTHERN Ireland Assembly had power to make a valid election of a first minister even though the period of six weeks after the office had become vacant, prescribed under s 16(8) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, had expired. The six-week constraint had been introduced to preclude the possibility of indefinite deadlock, but there was no reason why …