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Welcome back! In this week’s roundup we catch up with some of the legal news and events that you may have missed over the summer vacation, as well as some more recent stories. as we prepare to get busy with the new legal term. Breaking… Brexit latest Government announces “Bill to repeal the European Communities… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 3 October 2016
In response to an invitation from the Great Britain China Centre, the ICLR was one of a number of publishers who contributed books and other materials for an exhibition at the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) museum in Beijing earlier this year. The exhibition was held to mark British Legal Week in China, as part of… Continue reading about British Legal Week in China
Paul Magrath reviews a mesmerising new courtroom thriller in which Peter Murphy’s ambitious barrister hero Ben Schroeder takes on a challenging case involving a Welsh nationalist bomb plot. All the details of barristerial life, the rules of ethics and evidence, and the courtroom procedure appropriate for the 1960s period setting are pitch perfect. Yet is… Continue reading about Book review: The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr by Peter Murphy
Sophia Stapleton, winner of the inaugural ICLR Pupillage Award, offers some advice based on her own experience in applying for, and getting, a pupillage. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein Getting pupillage can be hard. A rejection does not mean that all… Continue reading about Pupillage Applications: Surviving Rejection
This is the first year that the ICLR have given a pupillage award, which is worth £12,000 for a barrister, taken on as a pupil in a set of chambers doing mainly publicly funded work, and in receipt of an existing pupil award from those chambers of no more than £14,000. The award was launched… Continue reading about The ICLR Pupillage Award’s first winner: Sophia Stapleton
Case comment by Paul Magrath, Head of Product Development and Online Content… Continue reading about Giving a clear and simple judgment: how hard can it be?
Podcasts are a great way of keeping up to date with radio programmes about law, but they can also deliver a series of instalments of a longer, more detailed or complex narrative. They’re easy to download and store on a smartphone or other device, using one of the dedicated apps. (I use the Podcasts app… Continue reading about Law Podcasts: a selection
True. The news that in July a small panel of judges (the Judicial Executive Board) decided that Blackstone’s Criminal Practice should replace Archbold as the standard text in the Crown Court is hardly front-page material. However, it’s precisely the sort of thing a law publisher with a criminal law background like me geeks out on.… Continue reading about Archbold v Blackstone
The Little Book of Music Law, by Amber Nicole Shavers. Reviewed by Paul Magrath. As demonstrated by the recent litigation over claims that one of the most famous rock anthems of all time, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, was partly filched from another song, the opportunities for legal disputes in the world of music… Continue reading about If music be the food of law, plead on…
Team ICLR is in Melbourne, Victoria, for the 2016 conference of the Australian Law Librarians’ Association. The conference is being held at the State Library Victoria, from 24 to 26 August and ICLR is happy to be a Silver Sponsor. We’ll be keeping you informed of events via this conference diary, which will appear in… Continue reading about #ALLA2016Conf – Melbourne, here we come! (Updated)
