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This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on prison reform, court closures, legal aid and employment law, with a trip back in time and a couple overseas. Prisons Gauke talk On 6 March the Justice Secretary delivered his first major speech on prison reform at the Royal Society of Arts in London. This… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 12 March 2018
As the Home Office gets involved in the government’s plans to tackle domestic abuse, David Burrows considers the terms of the current consultation and looks back over the somewhat uneven history of dealing with the problem since the 1970s. Transforming society’s response to domestic abuse A domestic abuse Bill may finally be in prospect. A… Continue reading about Domestic abuse: a Government consultation and a short history
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes recent Brexit words and deeds, a media regulatory reversal, clashes between law and religion, charities, child abuse and the law of property. But first, a cold snap: New Square, Lincoln’s Inn in the recent snow, taken by Barbara Rich, of 5 Stone Buildings. Brexit Prime Minister’s… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 5 March 2018
Depictions of the English legal system in art are rather less common than, say, its appearances in legal dramas or novels. This is surprising, given the opportunities it affords for the study of human nature in crisis. But one artist who has done justice to the subject is the 19th century British painter, Abraham Solomon.… Continue reading about Law in art: the judgement of Solomon
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes legal aid for criminal advocacy, the traumas of jury service, the stresses of life at the bar, the conduct of the judiciary and where we are with Brexit. (Updated with additional links 27 Feb 18) Legal Aid Crime doesn’t pay: the reboot of AGFS Criminal… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 26 February 2018
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes court closures, video links, absconding bail, the right to be forgotten and media regulation. Courts Less physical more virtual As part of the massive HMCTS Reform programme, old and under-used courts are being closed and others refurbished, as the justice system gears up for a world… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 19 February 2018
This week ICLR participated for the first time in the #GreatLegalBake organised by the London Legal Support Trust. Among the creations on display were representations in cake form of ICLR’s key publications, both online and in print. For the online version, Paul Magrath created a batch of chocolate brownies iced to represent the minicards on… Continue reading about Cakes-at-law: from Magna Cakea to the Great Legal Bake
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes charity regulation, media support, the law on trolling and intimidation, and the parole board. [Updated 15.02.18] Charities Regulation, reputational risk and safeguarding obligations The revelations in the media over the last week about Oxfam’s failure properly to investigate and deal with allegations of sexual misconduct by… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 12 February 2018
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on access to justice and is dedicated to the memory of the late Sir Henry Brooke, who did so much to promote these things. Here he is at the Bach Commission (photo: Bar Council, from an article in Legal Voice) Sir Henry Brooke We were very… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 5 February 2018
Publishing the courts: Judgments and public information on the Internet – Lord Justice Brooke (2003)
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… Continue reading about Publishing the courts: Judgments and public information on the Internet – Lord Justice Brooke (2003)
