Text of a speech given by Lord Justice Brooke, Lord Justice of Appeal, at the Commonwealth Law Conference – Melbourne, 15 April 2003. Courts in many parts of the Commonwealth are adopting the Internet as a key mechanism to communicate information about their role and function and to distribute their judgments. In this paper the author… Continue reading
Our new ICLR.3 website offers a one-stop resource for both case law and the legal news and commentary on our blog. Here’s a quick guide to finding your way from one to the other on the site, and some frequently asked questions about our website content. I’m on the home page: how do I find… Continue reading
A law report is a record of a judicial decision on a point of law which sets a precedent. Not all decisions taken in a court of law set a precedent, however interesting they may be in terms of the facts of the case or its consequences. A decision is only reportable if lays down… Continue reading
Continuing his series discussing the impact on family law and practice of legal developments in other areas, David Burrows considers the grounds on which one party in proceedings may restrict the disclosure to one or more other parties of documents and other materials before the court, and the scope and procedure for doing so. Disclosure and… Continue reading
Guest post by Dr Julie Doughty, who teaches media law at Cardiff University Law School, reporting on a recent debate on the future of press regulation.… Continue reading
Though other issues may loom larger with some voters, most lawyers will want to know how the parties’s manifestos compare on key issues of law and justice. We hunt for the few specific proposals amongst the vague aspirational waffle.… Continue reading
In a series of posts on this blog, author David Burrows has been examining the impact on family law and practice of reported cases arising in other areas of law. Now Iain Large reviews his recently published book, Evidence in Family Proceedings, and welcomes a valuable new entry into a busy marketplace.… Continue reading
It is four years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into effect, on April Fool’s day 2013. The Act itself was passed five years ago. Its effects, as we predicted at the time, have been seismic. Image: The Manifesto of Justice (from UK General Election 2015) The policy behind the… Continue reading
Last November the Information Law and Policy Centre Annual Lecture and Workshop brought together a wide range of legal academics, lawyers, policy-makers and interested parties to discuss the future of human rights and digital information control. Paul Magrath from ICLR was there. The papers from the workshop have recently been published in a special edition… Continue reading
Thanks to a controversial amendment to the Prisons and Courts Bill 2017, judges in England and Wales may soon be using gavels just like their American counterparts. The amendment has been put forward by the cross party Legal Heritage Committee of the House of Lords. It is said to be supported by a 2015 academic… Continue reading