Portal:Law/Did you know/5

• ... 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 in English law, legal relations created in a social context are not considered binding?

• ... that in 2011, Argentinian lawyer Elsa Kelly (pictured) was appointed the first women judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?

• ... that the English Statute of Enrolments, believed to have been emergency legislation, contains no preamble and was drafted by the Clerk of the House of Commons rather than a legislator?

• ... 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?

• ... that a kidney transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India?

Source

1. Template:Did you know nominations/Aletta Jacobs (September 2019)
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/July
3. Template:Did you know nominations/Elsa Kelly (August 2016)
4. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January
5. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/February
6. Template:Did you know nominations/James Humphreys (pornographer) (November 2019)
7. Template:Did you know nominations/Organ donation in India, June, 2020