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This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes resumed Crown Court trials, remote civil appeals, police charging errors, remote prison visits, mental health pressures for young lawyers and a response to some asinine media braying.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 18 May 2020
This post sets out the response to the CJC rapid consultation drafted by Paul Magrath from his perspective as a law reporter, legal publisher and commentator, both with ICLR (publishers of the official Law Reports) and the Transparency Project.… Continue reading about Rapid Consultation: The impact of COVID-19 measures on the civil justice system – response
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes a plan to relax the lockdown (by staying alert), ways of continuing criminal trials, judicial leanings (on), data protection and more coronavirus guidance and commentary.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 11 May 2020
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the data protection implications of contact tracing apps, more appeals on the Horizon for the Post Office IT fraud scandal, another call for feedback on remote hearings, world press freedom warnings, and some recent interesting cases.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 4 May 2020
Paul Magrath reviews a former judge’s analysis of the challenge of opening up the family courts to better public scrutiny… Continue reading about Book review: The ‘Secret’ Family Court: fact or fiction? by Clifford Bellamy
Our roundup resumes after the short Easter vacation, with a fresh collection of Covid-19 related guidance and commentary, and legal thoughts from at home and abroad.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 27 April 2020
Novelist Elanor Dymott explains how she was inspired to move from the law to fiction via law reporting for ICLR.… Continue reading about Dickens Did It First: Writing and the Law
We began this year’s Hilary Term with busy plans for legislation to Get Brexit Done, to modernise marriage and divorce laws, to deal with crime and domestic violence, and to help refugees and victims of the Windrush scandal. We end it with a population in the grip of pandemic, struggling to protect our health service and prevent economic collapse, and keeping the lamp of justice alive in the flickering screens of video conference apps. Greetings from the home study.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 6 April 2020
Guest post by Beheshteh Engineer
Are you up to the mark on rules and regs? Can you cut the mustard with civil procedure small print? Do you have a fine and as yet unruined reading voice? If so, why not sign up to this charity challenge and help provide essential legal sport. (Shouldn’t that be “support”? Ed) The current crisis… Continue reading about The Social-Distancing Compliant White Book Charity Relay Reading Challenge 2020
