Every year ICLR holds an office bake sale and sends a team on the LLST Legal Walk to help raise funds for legal aid and advice. This year, we were forced to walk (or bake) in socially distanced isolation, but we went ahead anyway.… Continue reading
Welcome back to our weekly roundup of legal news and commentary, as we begin the Michaelmas Term with a catchup of what’s been happening over the long vacation, including coping with coronavirus in the courts, legislating for Brexit, rule-of-lawyer-bashing, and so on.
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David Burrows considers the life cycle and status of the humble practice direction. … Continue reading
David Burrows responds on the subject of footnotes in law, recommending their use as an authorial aside in legal and academic writing. … Continue reading
Dates can be critical, particularly when legal rights and obligations depend on them. It is a matter of concern if they appear to shift, as Paul Magrath explains. … Continue reading
In this guest post, Elijah Z Granet discusses the advantages of using footnotes for citations of case law in judgments, in common with other common law jurisdictions. … Continue reading
We examine the claims and methods of a book which is said to offer the first quantitative study of decision-making in the UK Supreme Court during its first decade. … Continue reading
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution has been conducting an inquiry into the effect of Covid-19 on the courts and access to justice. This post surveys the oral evidence given so far. … Continue reading
David Burrows considers recent cases which test the open justice principle by reference to court documents and potentially confidential information. … Continue reading
As the summer vacation beckons, this term’s final roundup of legal news and commentary includes national (in)security, deprivation of citizenship, a semi-centenary of law centres, remote will witnessing, and what’s been happening in the courts. But first, a message from our CEO.… Continue reading