* Association of Pension Lawyers-a group of lawyers who practice pension law in the UK

The CIRA is an illegal organisation under UK ( section 11 ( 1 ) of the Terrorism Act 2000 ) and Irish law due to the use of ' IRA ' in the group's name in a situation analogous to that of the Real Irish Republican Army ( RIRA ).

Membership of the organisation is punishable by a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment under UK law.

Public outcry following the overturning of his conviction ( for perjury ) by the High Court has led to widespread calls for reform of the law along the lines of the UK legislation.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

The Isle of Man is subject to certain European Union laws, by virtue of a being a territory for which the UK has responsibility in international law.

In many countries, such as the US and the UK, the tax law provides that the interest on this cash value is not taxable under certain circumstances.

This issue is dealt with in UK law as " fitness to plead ".

The US and the UK vary in the way the law is interpreted and applied with regard to insider trading.

The UK government has consistently adopted a " non-interventionist policy ", and following the " high degree of consensus amongst academics, legal advisers, politicians and officials " would only intervene " in the event of a fundamental breakdown in public order or the rule of law, endemic corruption in the government or other extreme circumstances ".

In relation to the Council of Europe, Jersey – as a territory the United Kingdom is responsible for in international law – has been bound by the European Convention on Human Rights since the UK acceded to the treaty in 1951.

In April 2012, the UK Government made law changes to prevent the Channel Islands continued exploitation of LVCR, meaning that UK residents would have to pay the full VAT amount on items imported from the Channel Islands.

Despite the Rhodesian Constitution of 1965 coming into effect as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, appeals continued to be accepted by the Privy Council as late as 1969 due to the fact that under international law, Rhodesia remained a UK colony.

* UK company law

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

The 1802 Factory Act was the first labour law in the UK.

Since the election of the Labour Government in 1997, there have been many changes in UK employment law.

* Measure of the Church of England is a law passed by the General Synod and the UK Parliament equivalent of an Act

A significant number of constituencies were contested by nationals of countries outside the UK, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India, as British electoral law allows any member of a Commonwealth country to stand for Parliament.

Although the sale or consumption of commercial alcohol has never been prohibited by law, historically various groups in the UK have campaigned for the prohibition of alcohol, including the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), The Methodist Church and other non-conformist Christians, as well as temperance movements such as Band of Hope and temperance Chartist movements of the 19th century.

In 1853, inspired by the Maine law in the USA, the United Kingdom Alliance led by John Bartholomew Gough was formed aimed at promoting a similar law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in the UK.

* United Kingdom: distributed in UK market by BAE Systems, the Segway is classified as a powered vehicle and subject to Road Traffic law, with the effect that, because the Segway is deemed not to meet the required safety standards, it is unlawful to use a Segway anywhere other than on private property with the owner's permission.

The vehicle was built after Denby Transport believed they had found a legal-loophole in the present UK law to allow the Eco-Link to be used on the public roads.

The law in some countries, such as the UK, draws a distinction between “ equality of provision ” and “ equality of outcome ”, recognising that identical treatment may sometimes act to preserve inequality rather than eliminate it.

The tradition for brass bands in the UK is continuing, and local communities and schools have brass bands, such as The Ouston and Pelton Community brass band, which draws their new members from more than seven local schools.

The CPP acts as a national resource for analysis of emerging policy challenges and draws on extensive collaboration with leading researchers in the UK, Europe, North America and the developing world.

In the UK, an annual Stinging Nettle Eating Championship draws thousands of people to Dorset, where competitors attempt to eat as much of the raw plant as possible.

His two last vocal album Acousma and Rainy Murmur with the E band draws influence from the UK post-rock group Bark Psychosis.

This legislation draws on both the US and UK models of LLP, and like the latter establishes the LLP as a body corporate.

The book draws on some of Langford's own experiences working at the UK government's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire.

Declassified research ( subject to a Freedom of Information request ) from the UK Ministry of Defence report UAP in the UK Air Defence Region, code named Project Condign and released to the public in 2006, draws several conclusions as to the origin of " black triangle " UFO sightings.

Stylistically, grime draws on many genres including UK garage, British hip hop and dancehall.

Feeling at home in the US as well as in the UK, Donahue musically draws from influences of both countries like Celtic music, rock, blues and country.

Although the first comic in the series clearly draws on Joe Haldeman's Buying Time ( UK title: The Long Habit of Living ), the plots of the following volumes continue beyond the end of the original novel.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

This distinction is, however, not made in the UK, where the generic term for practitioners is " educational psychologist.

However, this distinction does not apply in other jurisdictions ; for example, if using this terminology UK inheritance tax would be an estate tax.

In the UK the final " e " of " tonne " is pronounced (/ ˈtʌnɪ /), or " metric ton " when it is necessary to make the distinction.

Some school level textbooks and at least one UK examination board make a further distinction between strong and weak rule utilitarianism.

In the UK, the main historical distinction between a hamlet and a village was that the latter had a church, and so usually was the centre of worship for an ecclesiastical parish.

As of 2011, he lectures on Relational Databases at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick ( UK ), and is a tutor for the Open University ( UK ) where he was awarded a MUniv honorary degree for academic and scholarly distinction.

# A small number of artists have the distinction of being regarded as one-hit wonders in both the US and UK, but with different songs.

Lee enjoys one distinction unique among successful American singers ; her opening act on a UK tour in the early 1960s was a then-little-known beat group from Liverpool, England: The Beatles.

A further Scottish distinction from the UK flag days is that on Saint Andrew's Day, ( 30 November ), the Union Flag will only be flown where a building has more than one flagpole-the Saltire will not be lowered to make way for the Union Flag where a single flagpole is present.

In some countries, the highest degree in a given field is called a terminal degree, although this is by no means universal ( the term is not in general use in the UK, for example ), practice varies from country to country, and a distinction is sometimes made between terminal professional degrees and terminal research degrees ( such as the J. S. D., or S. J. D.

It gained this distinction in 1992, after a survey of urban centres in various countries carried out by the United Nations ( source: Embassy of Brazil in the UK ).

Although this right has been treated as a lien under UK insolvency law, it has been argued that such statutory rights are not in fact liens, but rights analogous to liens, although some might say that this is a distinction without a difference.

New College shares with Trinity College, St. Hilda's College, and University College, the distinction of being Dominion cousins to namesakes in the UK.

The word tavern is no longer in popular use in the UK as there is no distinction between a tavern and an inn.

The album was released on 27 November 1970 in the United States, and on 30 November 1970 in the UK, with the rare distinction of having the same Apple catalogue number ( STCH 639 ) in both countries.

The BBC operates several television networks, television stations ( although there is generally very little distinction between the two terms in the UK ), and related programming services in the United Kingdom.

Gorky's have the ignominious distinction of being the only group with 8 UK Top 75 singles without ever making the Top 40.

The introduction in the UK of subscriber dialling of long distance calls removed the distinction that had existed between Trunk and Toll calls.

It holds the distinction of being the very first number one album on the UK Independent Albums Chart when the chart debuted in Record Week in 1980.

The clock faces are in diameter, larger than those of London's famous landmark, Big Ben, holding the distinction of being the largest electronically driven clocks in the UK.

Unlike New Zealand, the US or the UK, there is only one level of local government in all states, with no distinction such as counties and cities.