Portal:Law/Did you know/17

• ... that while the Gateway Generating Station (pictured) was completed without controversy or setbacks, it was later the subject of a lawsuit over endangered butterflies?

• ... that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski?

• ... that a lawsuit filed against Busch Gardens Tampa Bay alleged a model was falsely imprisoned after not being allowed to get off the Scorpion roller coaster?

• ... 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, according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya, corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their subsidiaries in other countries violate customary international law?

• ... that the UK Supreme Court told the Chief Constable that the West Yorkshire Police are not allowed to knock over old ladies?

Source

1. Template:Did you know nominations/Gateway Generating Station (December 2020)
2. Template:Did you know nominations/Wojciech Sadurski (November 2020)
3. Template:Did you know nominations/Scorpion (roller coaster) (October 2020)
4. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/June
5. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/October
6. Did you know nominations/Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya (July 2020)
7. Did you know nominations/Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police (April 2021)