The judgment of the House of Lords in Jones v Ministry of Interior of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [2006] 2 WLR 1424 has stirred passionate debate. English nationals and residents were barred from suing individual Saudi officials, whom they accused of torture, on the ground of state immunity. Emotive...

This article critically analyses the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in J A Pye (Oxford) Ltd v United Kingdom (2006) 43 EHRR 3. It criticises the Court's conclusion that the right to property is engaged by the English law of adverse possession. That law is a...

A probability forecast scored ex post using a probability scoring rule (e.g. Brier) is analogous to a risky financial security. With only superficial adaptation, the same economic logic by which securities are valued ex ante – in particular, portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing...