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This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes election crimes, legal services, and the law of the gig economy. Plus: legalising cannabis in Canada (the giggle economy), and the not so funny use of Pokemon Go. Election [f]law Tory election expenses: CPS declines to prosecute On 10 May the Crown Prosecution Service announced that… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 15 May 2017
It’s not often that Doritos, a corn-based tortilla-chip snack food, make it into the legal news, but they did so recently with quite a zing. Paul Magrath investigates. The excitable Daily Mail headline read almost like a headnote: ‘Gold digger’ in her twenties who married a school lollipop man, 76, forged his will and… Continue reading about Doritos-in-law: widow’s foiled attempt to make a packet with forged will
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment comes from Ottawa where team ICLR are attending the Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual conference. And no, we’re not doing all of it in both French and English, fun though that might be (and a suitable test of the editor’s schoolboy French). ICLR in Ottawa Welcome… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 8 May 2017
Welcome to the 55th annual Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference! / Bienvenue au 55e Congrès annuel de l’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit! Representing ICLR at the conference are Paul Hastings, Account Manager, and Paul Magrath, Head of Product Development and Online Content. They will be demonstrating ICLR Online to potential new users, and… Continue reading about ICLR in Ottawa #CALLACBD2017
A team from ICLR will be walking the London Legal Support Trust’s London Legal Walk on 22 May, to help raise money for much needed funds for free legal services in London and the South East. Please donate, if you can, via our electronic donations page. The London Legal Support Trust provides grant funding… Continue reading about We’re walking the walk! Please help support legal advice in 2017
Antony Lentin’s life of Henry Alfred McCardie, published in the centenary year of his appointment to the High Court Bench, offers a fascinating portrait of a judicial figure whose reforming judgments have stood the test of time rather better than some of the public pronouncements that brought him fame and notoriety in his own day.… Continue reading about Book review: Mr Justice McCardie (1869-1933) – Rebel, Reformer, and Rogue Judge
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes last minute legislation, legal services, law in the movies, and a survey of judgment opening lines. If there’s a theme, it’s “sieze the day” —or: fame may not be the spur, but don’t spurn it. Legislation Washup and Go Parliament was prorogued last week, to use… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 1 May 2017
We mark the end of the Easter law vacation and the start of the new term with an update of legal news and commentary including the British and French elections, the fate of pending legislation, legal services regulation and a fatal ruling from SCOTUS. Legislation The fate — and fatality — of bills Theresa May’s… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 25 April 2017
It is four years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into effect, on April Fool’s day 2013. The Act itself was passed five years ago. Its effects, as we predicted at the time, have been seismic. Image: The Manifesto of Justice (from UK General Election 2015) The policy behind… Continue reading about The legacy of LASPO
Weekly Notes, the ICLR roundup of recent legal news and commentary, is currently on holiday. We’ll resume publication in the next law term, which begins on Tuesday, 25th April. In the meantime, here’s an Easter-flavoured tale from the archives of the Business Law Reports (Bus LR). It’s all about that most festive of confections, the… Continue reading about Bad Faith Bunnies – A bitter/sweet Easter Tale
