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This week’s roundup looks at the law on weddings, journalism, offensive communications, judicial pensions, a terrorism inquest, and fees for criminal advocacy.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 1 July 2019
This article is based on the rough note made by Paul Magrath of the keynote speech of Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC at the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) on 13 June 2019. If and when the verbatim text is published, we will update with a link.… Continue reading about Lady Hale remembers: how law has changed since the Sixties
This week’s roundup includes arms and the salesman, liability for negligent cycling, developments in the courts, reports on discrimination and the use of algorithms in criminal justice, a prize for journalism and a walk to raise funds for access to justice.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 24 June 2019
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the Hong Kong extradition bill protests, proposed changes in the law on surrogacy, the reluctance of French judges to face digital scrutiny, and the semi-centenary conference of our British and Irish law librarians’ association.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 17 June 2019
In this week’s roundup of legal news and commentary, the criminal bar takes up arms against the slings and arrows of outrageous legal aid cuts, though extra funding is now available to swell the thinning cohort of the senior judiciary; meanwhile Henry VIII appears in full fig in the Online Courts bill and we have updates on recent cases and forthcoming events.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 10 June 2019
Welcome back: our first roundup of the Trinity Term features Boris Johnson in the dock, questions around crime stats, crowdfunding civil litigation, lawtech, and legal professions.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 3 June 2019
In a guest post, Mr Justice Dingemans reviews the latest collection of short stories about the resident judge of a fictional Crown Court… Continue reading about Book review: Judge Walden – Call the Next Case, by Peter Murphy
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 20 May 2019
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.
… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 13 May 2019
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 7 May 2019
