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We swim in a sea of data. Our digital devices know where we’ve been, who we’ve communicated with, what we’ve looked at and how we’ve responded. As a result, each one of us is an open book. An open Facebook, indeed, or something similar. And we’ve allowed this to happen because we wanted to have… Continue reading about Book review: The Little Black Book of Data and Democracy by Kyle Taylor
“I have tasted the bitterness of injustice” Mahmood Mattan tells the imam who visits him in jail, as he awaits his execution for a crime we now know he did not commit. Mattan, a Somali seaman who has settled in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, has been fingered for the murder of Violet Volacki, a Jewish shopkeeper,… Continue reading about Book review: The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
We wish all our friends in the legal world and beyond a very pleasant Christmas break, and a Happy New Year for 2022. This has been a difficult year for many, yet again, but we still hope for better to come. ICLR will be closed until 4 January 2021. Some support will be provided via… Continue reading about Seasons greetings from ICLR
In this last roundup of the Michaelmas Term, we look at human rights, secret justice, policing and some recent case law.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 20 December 2021
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes judicial diversity, family transparency, housing cases, crime and human rights, plus some recent case law… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 13 December 2021
The Prorogation Case of 2019 forms both the centrepiece of the latest Supreme Court Yearbook, and the climax of a glittering legal career for the court’s president, Lady Hale, whose autobiography Paul Magrath reviews alongside… Continue reading about Book review: The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Vol 10 (2018-2019), and Spider Woman by Lady Hale
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes privacy and the press, crime and punishment, human rights, public order and recent case law.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 6 December 2021
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes the refugee crisis, new (but not new) pet theft and homicide laws, domestic abuse guidance, intellectual property star wars, omicronic covid regs, plus recent case law… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 29 November 2021
This week’s roundup focuses on this year’s Bar Conference, plus other legal news and commentary including a new inquiry into the Novichok affair, a curb on juvenile nuptials, and some recent cases.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 22 November 2021
Elijah Granet explains why he decided to create a more convenient and readable edition of the Bar Standards Board Handbook… Continue reading about Making the handbook handy: revising the BSB Handbook to be readable for humans
