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Sark case comes to the High Court

thisisguernsey.com: Advocate Gordon Dawes’ article on the Barclays’ judicial review has appeared in The Lawyer. thisisguernsey.com
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19-May-2008
        
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By Nick Mann SIR DAVID and Sir Frederick Barclay’s case against the Privy Council’s decision to approve Sark’s reform law hits the High Court this week. The judicial review will be held on Wednesday and Thursday based on concerns about the feudal powers retained by the Seigneur and Seneschal.... [read full story]                    

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Challenging feudalism from the comfort of Europe's largest modern castle

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Sark democracy plans challenged

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libdemblogs.co.uk
22-May-2008
        

I see that the Barclay Brothers, owners of the Telegraph and many other media outlets, are having their day in the High Court to challenge the new constitutional arrangements for Sark (in the Channel Islands) on the good old Liberal basis that "they don't go far enough". (See earlier post) Good...

Barclays take battle of Sark to court

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22-May-2008
        

By Megan Murphy, Law Courts Correspondent The billionaire Barclay brothers on Wednesday asked the High Court to sweep the vestiges of feudalism from the tiny Channel Island of Sark, in the latest move in a battle over how the Crown protectorate should be governed. The twins, who own a fifth of...

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Sark reforms 'may violate human rights law'

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21-May-2008
        

Reforms designed to drag the Channel Island of Sark out of feudalism are "constitutionally defective" and could amount to a violation of human rights law, the High Court has heard. Sark's legislature and executive, known as the Chief Pleas, is made up mostly of hereditary landowners. A new...

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Barclay brothers take Sark reform to High Court

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21-May-2008
        

Sark Democratic reforms designed to drag the tiny Channel Island of Sark out of feudalism into the 21st century are still not good enough, a lawyer for the billionaire Barclay brothers told the High Court. Sark's new constitution, approved last month, 450 years after Queen Elizabeth I established...

Sark democracy plans challenged

bbc.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Foreign nationals will still not be able to stand for election to the Chief Pleas Plans to change the ancient feudal system of government on the Channel Island of Sark have been challenged in the High Court. Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay are seeking a judicial review of the proposals...