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The Rule of Law and Open Justice

 Guest post by James Keeley The rule of law keeps us from chaos. It accepts who we are as human beings embracing our ethnicity, our sexuality and our abilities as well as our limitations. Through it we are given the chance to speak freely so long as we do so without prejudice and without harming Continue reading

A sad farewell to Solicitors’ Journal

When ICLR was founded in 1865, the Solicitors Journal was already almost a decade old. For many years, the two publishers have been associated, principally through the legal case summaries which ICLR’s reporters have contributed to the magazine. Earlier this month, the journal’s current owners made the no doubt agonising decision to close it down. Continue reading

Important Changes to One-Off PDF Purchasing System

On 15 September 2017, we will be changing the ordering process used for pay-as-you-go PDF purchasing. Please read the following carefully. Since 2011, we have made individual PDFs of all of our cases reports available for one-off purchase using our e-commerce store at iclr.co.uk. As of 15 September 2017, we will decommission that e-commerce process Continue reading

NEWS: Daniel Hoadley to deliver UK Open Law talk in New Jersey

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Hoadley (former ICLR law reporter and co-designer of ICLR Online) will be delivering a talk on open access to case law at the Law Via The Internet annual conference at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey (19-21 October 2017). Not one to pull his punches, Daniel’s talk Continue reading

Family law: Mrs Owens – a divorce in 2017

The concept of “no fault divorce” has gained traction in recent years, but the recent case of Owens v Owens and the image it conjures up of a wife trapped in a loveless marriage has concentrated people’s minds on the issue. As the case heads towards a further appeal hearing in the Supreme Court, David Continue reading

Family Law No Island: Legal professional privilege and family law

Continuing his series discussing the impact on family law and practice of legal developments in other areas, David Burrows considers the effect of legal professional privilege in the context of advice given by lawyers to those engaged in family law disputes and the circumstances in which the right to confidentiality of such advice may be Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR - 31 July 2017

This is our last round up of recent legal news and commentary for this Trinity law term, with updates on access to justice, Brexit, corporate manslaughter and presidential tweetering on the brink of chaos. The next Weekly Notes won’t be until the beginning of the Hilary Term in October, but we’ll continue posting case notes, Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 17 July 2017

Powers old, new, borrowed and blue are contained in the Lesser (or Not Quite So Great) Repeal Bill announced this week as our legislative rocket ejector seat for Brexit. This and other news in a roundup that struggles in vain to cope with all the legal stuff going on right now. Sigh. Continue reading

#AALL17 – Austin, here we come!

Team ICLR is in Austin, Texas for the 110th Annual Meeting & Conference of the American Association of Law Libraries. The theme this year is “Forego the status quo”, which is something we all seem to be having to do anyway these days, in the political sphere. But in the legal sphere, maybe the big Continue reading