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A welcome development has been BAILII’s new collection of judicial speeches, as Paul Magrath explains… Continue reading about Judicial speeches
Changes to content The recent change of monarch will be reflected in the titles of some courts and cases published in The Law Reports and other content by ICLR. The Queen’s Bench Division (QBD) of the High Court will now be known as the King’s Bench Division (KBD). Cases brought in the name of the… Continue reading about Accession of King Charles III: changes affecting The Law Reports
In this guest post, Scott Wortley recounts the history of the statute according to which all QCs are automatically re-styled KCs (or vice versa) upon the accession of a monarch of different sex.… Continue reading about Why did Queen’s Counsel automatically become King’s Counsel? Parliament and the Demise of the Crown Act 1901
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales would like to join the legal professions in our own jurisdictions and in other common law jurisdictions loyal to the Crown in extending our deepest sympathy to surviving members of the Royal Family following the sad death of Queen Elizabeth II, and to welcome the… Continue reading about The death of HM The Queen and accession of King Charles III
Paul Magrath reviews a useful primer on an increasingly critical matter for lawyers. … Continue reading about Book review: Legal Data and Information in Practice by Sarah A Sutherland
ICLR will be in Hobart, Tasmania in the next few days, attending the 2022 ALLA Conference… Continue reading about #ALLA2022 – Hobart, here we come!
In this guest post Katrina Crossley, Chief Executive of the ILBF, describes why the charity was set up and how it works. (Reproduced with kind permission from the BIALL newsletter.)… Continue reading about International Law Book Facility (ILBF)
In the second of two linked posts David Burrows compares the procedural approaches of different courts to allegations of coercive and controlling behaviour and other forms of domestic abuse… Continue reading about Domestic abuse: family, civil courts and criminal proceedings – Part 2
In this guest post Prof Rachael Mulheron QC (Hon) discusses the picturesque background to Wilkinson v Downton, a landmark case in the law of tort. (Reproduced with kind permission from a brochure published by the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London with funding from the Society of Legal Scholars.)… Continue reading about Creating a slice of Legal History in the East End of London in the 19th Century
This final roundup of legal news for the Trinity Term celebrates matrimony, selects leadership, prefers the judiciary, resists a SLAPP and collects some recent case law and commentary.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 25 July 2022
