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This page lists some "Did You Knows" (DYKs) by WikiProject Law. They are also listed in the category Category:Law Portal DYKs. The entries are randomly chosen for display on the Law Portal.


DYKs 1

Black and white photograph of a seated woman in traditional Indian dress.

  • ... that the non-payment of debts is the archetype for the seventeen other Hindu titles of law, including that of sexual crimes against women?


DYKs 2

  • ... that, in the cases of Klayman v. Obama and ACLU v. Clapper, US district courts issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of bulk data collection by the US government?
  • ... that in 2011, Nitehawk Cinema successfully lobbied to overturn a Prohibition-era liquor law that prevented movie theaters in New York from serving alcohol?


DYKs 3

Red dresses representing missing and murdered Indigenous women.

  • ... that after the death of Olaseni Lewis, who was restrained by 11 police officers, UK law was changed to require police to wear body cameras when dealing with vulnerable people?


DYKs 4

Image of a courthouse.

  • ... that English gynaecologist Margaret Puxon, who started studying law to prevent boredom while on maternity leave, eventually became a barrister?


DYKs 5

Photographs of a woman standing at a podium and gesturing.

  • ... that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights only to men?
  • ... that when Henry McCardie was a barrister, he often worked so late that his chambers were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?
  • ... that the diaries of James Humphreys, the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict 13 policemen of accepting his bribes?


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DYKs 7

  • ... that although Elizabeth Richards Tilton (pictured) was a central figure in a six-month-long trial, she was never allowed to speak in court?


DYKs 8

Aerial photograph of an island.

  • ... that in the Bancoult litigation, the English courts and government first decided that the Chagossians could return home (pictured), then that they couldn't, then that they could, and then that they couldn't?


DYKs 9

Photograph of a man leaning on a chair

  • ... that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?


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DYKs 11

  • ... that the legal reforms that came about as a result of the Glanville Davies affair were far weaker than those initially proposed?


DYKs 12

  • ... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open Pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?
  • ... that after a meeting in 1940, the English Judges' Council did not meet for another 10 years?
  • ... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers of the Basic Law" in the Federal Republic of Germany, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights" in the 1949 constitution but was voted down?


DYKs 13

Black and white photograph of a man in formal dress

  • ... that the Leges Henrici Primi (written c. 1115) sets out a list of royal pleas or pleas of the crown, crimes that could only be tried in front of the king or his officials?
  • ... that the English case of Pepper v Hart, at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?


DYKs 14

  • ... that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?
  • ... that André Langrand-Dumonceau, a major Belgian financier of the mid-19th century, was convicted of financial fraud, tried in absentia, and died in exile?
  • ... that the LGBT Centre was finally registered after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?


DYKs 15

  • ... that prior to joining the Supreme Court of Chile, Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the MOP-Gate case?


DYKs 16

Elderly woman with covered head.

  • ... that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries, not confirmed ones?
  • ... that Serbian poisoner Baba Anujka (pictured), aged over 90 at the time of her trial, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor?
  • ... that in England and Wales, legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the Hale Commission?
  • ... that by the time Lyon's Inn was dissolved it was being run by only two of the standard twelve governors, neither of whom had any idea what their duties were?
  • ... that Malaysian blogger Alvin Tan was put on trial for sedition after posting a photograph of himself eating pork as a Ramadan greeting?


DYKs 17

Overhead photograph of a large power station on the water.

  • ... that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski?
  • ... that in England and Wales, legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the Hale Commission?
  • ... that by the time Lyon's Inn was dissolved it was being run by only two of the standard twelve governors, neither of whom had any idea what their duties were?