Talk:Law of the United Kingdom

message: Yes, it seems that I'm correct about law in Northern Ireland. Mais Oui looks to have made that page himself, composed of a list about the police and Parliaments there; the only addition that Mais Oui didn't make to this page was the link about the Courts of Northern Ireland which explains clearly that the Lords is the final court of appeal within the UK. I'm removing the section on courts on the page - there's already space under the NI Assembly. Wikidea 07:53, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are confusing the fact that NI shares its highest court of appeal with E&W (and lots of other places) with it having the same legal system. It does not, and to claim that NI comes under the same legal system as E&W is straying deep into WP:OR. -- Mais oui! 08:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine by me; it's always good to be specific. I'm putting your NI page in the see also list, but it's quite a useful collection of links. Wikidea 08:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

text: It seems we're editting at the same time. The section doesn't belong with Scots and English law, because the courts for NI are unified with E and W - I've changed the header title to reflect that. Wikidea 08:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "the courts for NI are unified with E and W" - Huh?!? You'd better find an awful lot of good references for that, as per WP:CITE and WP:RS, because that is just not true. -- Mais oui! 08:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northern Ireland Law 

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message: Above is the question. I would love to hear Editor's thoughts. This relates to a discussion on Talk: Northern Ireland. In the article ".ie" is listed as an official domain covering Northern Ireland. There is Irish law governing ".ie" but so far I haven't come across any equivalent UK law. This is so even though some Editors seem to think it is under joing UK/IRL administration or UK(NI)/IRL administration. Thanks. Frenchmalawi (talk) 00:57, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Is there any UK law governing "[[.ie]]" domains?

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message: Fantastic article credit to the authors, however I noticed this:
"Sheriff courts have no equivalent outside Scotland, as they deal with both criminal and civil caseloads."
While I am in full agreement they have no equivalent outside Scotland, do Magistrates Courts not also handle some civil caseloads such as council tax?
92.233.139.105 (talk) 22:26, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Council tax non-payment is a criminal matter and that is why enforcement is dealt with by the magistrates court (in England and Wales). Tax demands are dealt with differently from other liabilities, such as rent or business debts, which are civil matters and go through the County Court. FrankP (talk) 11:47, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sheriff courts and Magistrates Courts 

message: I have removed the term "British law" from the lede, as being incorrect usage. I did tag it as "citation needed" and waited a while before removal. If someone has a good source which uses this phrase perhaps it should come back. In my opinion it would need support from an authoritative legal or governmental source, because maybe the phrase is used sometimes, but strictly incorrectly. It certainly is not a synonym for "UK Law". If it means anything it might be shorthand for something looser like "all things legal connected with Britain". FrankP (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  British law 

message: The statement "European Union law was actively transposed into the UK legal systems under the UK parliament's law-making power—acts of the European Union Parliament not having direct effect in the dualist UK" seems to be somewhat wrong. EU Regulations had primacy as law from the moment they were passed (by virtue of the European Communities Act 1972) - see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eu-legislation-and-uk-law and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Factortame_Ltd)_v_Secretary_of_State_for_Transport - they only needed transposition into UK law in order to implement Brexit. Galund (talk) 19:09, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  EU law 

message: Should Church of England law (e.g. General Synod as a legislature) also be discussed? Kaihsu (talk) 08:07, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecclesiastical law? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. –  wbm1058 (talk) 20:17, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Law of the United Kingdom → ? – British legal system, Legal system of the United Kingdom or British legal systems, Legal systems of the United Kingdom
This article includes discussions of law broader than the 'law of the UK', which refers to the law at a particular point in time. e.g. International law, municipal law, etc. Therefore, I propose these new titles for the article: 'British legal system', 'Legal system of the United Kingdom' in singular or 'British legal systems', 'Legal systems of the United Kingdom' in plural. What do you think of this? Balkovec (talk) 07:34, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 1 April 2022 

message: I propose merging Jurisdictions of the United Kingdom into this article as they overlap almost completely and the majority of the Jurisdictions article appears to duplicate content (or at least concepts) in this article. XAM2175 (T) 20:11, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree as the other article doesn't have much substantive content. Dawkin Verbier (talk) 05:31, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Support, total overlap and both are short articles. CMD (talk) 05:38, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Support, significant overlap which can be easily merged. DankJae 12:49, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like strong support for the merge, so I'm going to close the discussion. , feel free to forge ahead. Joyous! Noise! 15:43, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal