This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes fundamental dishonesty by PI claimants, the place of the dock in the criminal courtroom, the mental capacity of a person to consent to sex, and some recent new legislation.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes court reform, family justice and the availability of the judiciary as a commercial service. Plus something uplifting from Reading County Court.
We welcome you back to the short new law term, with a roundup of legal news and comment, including courts, open justice, crime and punishment, and family law. And a bit of Brexit, with regret.… Continue reading
Jon Robins anatomises a criminal appeals system that appears to prioritise public confidence over individual fairness, that only grudgingly admits miscarriages of justice and that, even then, fails to compensate its victims unless they prove the very innocence they were presumed to have had in the first place. … Continue reading
David Rosen reviews a primer on legal ethics which aims to spark debate and help lawyers develop an instinct for doing the right thing rather than relying on a prescriptive all-embracing code of conduct. … Continue reading
David Burrows explains how parliamentary privilege was designed to stop the courts interfering with Parliament, not to allow parliamentarians to interfere with the work of the courts. He considers Lord Hain’s use of the privilege to trump a court injunction in the light of a recent speech on the matter by the Lord Chief Justice. … Continue reading
In this last roundup of the Hilary Term, we look at the latest law and policy stories including Brexit, Assange’s extradition, the Brunei boycott, legal aid and divorce myths and new crimes on the statute book. But who is the seasonal sacrificial lamb?… Continue reading
In a fascinating and instructive memoir, the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, famed as the ‘Sheriff of Wall St’, explains the role and functions of a public prosecutor and recalls some of the most interesting cases of his career.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup includes internet regulation, serious violence, copyright, data protection, prisons and probation, media law and animal rights.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary takes a slight detour into the realms of folly, looking at all the week’s stories that might have been an April Fool’s Day jest, but actually weren’t. Hold onto your hats - unless you’re throwing them into the ring of course. (Updated edition.)… Continue reading