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It gives me great pleasure to launch ICLR&D, ICLR’s legal information lab. The development of the lab has been about eight months in the making and I want explain at outset what we’re trying to do and why. Open innovation with primary law needs a jumpstart in England and Wales Whether you want to call… Continue reading about It’s Alive! Launching ICLR&D
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a march on Brexit, the pros and cons of naming killers, the discount rate for damages, plus transparency and media law updates.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 25 March 2019
David Burrows considers the status of judicially-issued practice guidance in the hierarchy of judge-made and statutory law, and questions its use as a shortcut for more formally generated procedural rules.
… Continue reading about ‘Guidance’ as law
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a Brexit vote (or three), developments and delays in court digitisation, Bloody Sunday prosecutions or the lack of them, and other crimes of violence, plus legal professional news.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 18 March 2019
David Burrows examines the recent decision of the President of the Family Division refusing to vary a ‘confidentiality’ injunction protecting the identity and current location of a notorious child killer. … Continue reading about Publicity and Jon Venables: application to vary a confidentiality injunction
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legal aid from a litigation funder; a blame game over knife crime; proposals to create a super-regulator of digital communications, and to deal with online contempt of court; and an update on the Grenfell Tower inquiry.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 11 March 2019
Keen-eyed users of ICLR.3 will have noticed a couple of improvements in the way case reports are displayed, as this post explains. … Continue reading about ICLR.3 – new features update, March 2019
ICLR’s Paul Magrath will be appearing on a panel chaired by Joshua Rozenberg at this year’s Putney Debates on the topic of judicial independence. … Continue reading about Putney Debates 2019: The Courts — Friend or Foe?
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a murder reconsidered, a problematic privatisation, a ducked judicial challenge, and rental discrimination.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 4 March 2019
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes robotic policing, knife crime, judicial bullying, and fake news.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 25 February 2019
