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This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes war crimes, election claims, and a decline in standards of public conduct, among other gloomy matters. But there’s some good news as well, and a lovely autumnal image from a barrister’s run.
… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 23 November 2020
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a last attempt to construct a trade link with Brussels, what has and hasn’t been happening in our courts, and a new law that won’t change anything.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 16 November 2020
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes an American election, an English lockdown, and what’s been happening to courts, judges, litigants and lawyers in the meantime.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 9 November 2020
Andrew King reviews the compelling account of a young black barrister’s journey to the Bar and the systemic prejudice she still encounters in her professional life. … Continue reading about Book review: In Black and White, by Alexandra Wilson
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a further lockdown, yet more confusing regulations, courtly compliance or its lack, Brexit, equality or its lack, and someone now in the Depps of disgrace. But first, a moment of calm…… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 2 November 2020
In this guest post, His Honour Clifford Bellamy looks at where judges come from, and how that has, or ought to have, changed in recent times. … Continue reading about What Do We Know About This Judge?
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes sentencing reform, media regulation, hungry children and untaxed taxis.
… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 26 October 2020
In this guest post, actor Andrew Woodall shares his reaction to the Secret Barrister’s forensic demolition of public legal misinformation… Continue reading about Book review: Fake Law, by the Secret Barrister – a non-lawyer’s view
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on some new laws that legalise the breaking of laws, the historic role of magistrates, the state of family justice and some recent publications.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 19 October 2020
An engaging account of a busy and varied legal life, told with a brisk good humour and an absence of introspection or jurisprudential angst. The title refers to an incident at Woking Golf Club.… Continue reading about Book review: Playing off the Roof, by Simon Brown
