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Law in 101 words

05 August 2022
Issue: 7990 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary, by Roderick Ramage
Congratulations NLJ!

The Law Journal, founded in 1822, and The Law Times, 1843, were amalgamated in 1965 as The New Law Journal. Congratulations on your bicentenary, spanning developments in the law from the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822 to the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. My own thanks are that your editor in 1970 took a chance and published Will or Shall, which was my first publication ever anywhere, he and his successors published my occasional articles and, in 2008, your present editor took another chance, accepting my 101-word snippets for the back page, bestowing on them the title Reduced Law Dictionary.


Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022

The minister must establish the Animal Sentience Committee, with power, when any government policy is formulated or implemented, to report ‘whether, or to what extent, the government is having, or has had, all due regard to the ways in which the policy might have an adverse effect on the welfare of animals as

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