The concept, important for determining the legality of an act of war, is about weighing civilian harm against military objectives, not about achieving a balanced number of casualties. By Steven ...

The Jackson reforms, culminating in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, abolished the recovery of success fees and ATE insurance premiums with a new system of qualified one-way ...

Israel's military operation in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of buildings, and severely restricted the supply of food. The operation was launched after Hamas ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jill Goldenziel writes & consults on security, law, & business risk. Proportionality in war does not mean balancing number of ...

My post of earlier this week explained why the majority of the Supreme Court struck down a direction telling all financial institutions not to deal with this Iranian Bank. The legal ground (involving, ...

The Supreme Court has reminded us, in a tour de force by Lord Reed, that there is no such thing as one-stop proportionality. It varies between ECHR and EU law, and the tests of EU proportionality then ...

The hoary doctrine of “proportionality” from the “just war” theory is being sorely tested by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The premise of this theory, as first expounded in the West by ...

Over the past decade, proportionality has become a defining feature of federal discovery practice, particularly in the context of electronically stored information (ESI).

On 23 February the Supreme Court gave judgment in what was effectively episode two of the housing possession proportionality drama (see the conjoined appeal in London Borough of Hounslow v Powell ...

More decorators working on a job would reduce the time to complete the task. They are inversely proportional. If two quantities are inversely proportional, one increases as the other decreases at the ...