Last day: Alissa Bishop-Thorpe, Rhiannon Grosse and Lucy Roberts We began the day with a seminar led by expert in Scottish politics, Alan Convery. During the session, Alan gave us interesting insight into the issues that are affecting the current political climate in Scotland. The two  major topics discussed were the rise of the Scottish […]

Today’s session began with one of Adelaide University’s Alumni, Dr Stephanie Palmer, who spoke to us at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. As a constitutional specialist, Stephanie offered the group an analysis into the interactions between British domestic law and European international organisations. Stephanie’s presentation focused on the British constitution and […]

Friday 15 and Sunday 17 April – Bec Slimming, Maddie Quinn and Rebecca Mahony On Friday morning we had our last class at King’s College in London. John led us through a discussion of two recent UK Supreme Court cases and watched a recording of a judgment being handed down. After visiting the Supreme Court […]

Day 2 – Elena Bartholomeusz, Kyri Nikias and Jess Pittman Today we began our seminar at King’s College at 10 a.m. after seven of us were tasked with purchasing the major daily newspapers so that we could analyse them in class. In groups we presented our brief analysis of each paper, examining their political allegiances […]

Day 1 – Eliza Harvey, Harriet Iles, Lucy Pittman Monday 11th April marked our first official day on the 2016 UK Law and Politics Study Tour. While some of us had already settled into the London time zone and fast paced way of living, a few others were still battling jetlag. Luckily, we had a […]