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We resume our weekly survey of legal news and events with a catchup of what’s been happening over the vacation, both at home and abroad. Red Queen redux What does acquitted phonehacking defendant Rebekah Brooks’ reinstallation as chief executive at News Corp UK say about money, Murdoch and management? Reading Beyond Contempt, Peter Jukes’ eyewitness… Continue reading
The open justice principle identified in Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417 remains the default position for family proceedings. Any derogation or departure must be justified as an exception. The approach of the Family Procedure Rules (in FPR r 27.10), purporting to reverse the polarity of that presumption of open justice, ought to be regarded as ultra vires (ie not within the statutory powers of the rule makers: see Courts Act 2003 ss 75 and 76) — not to mention an affront to the whole purpose of open justice and transparency, viz accountability and the disinfecting powers of sunlight, argues David Burrows in this guest post.… Continue reading
It is fair to say that law reporting probably strikes quite a few people out there as being a rather arcane business. The purpose of this post is to try to make things a little less obscure by explaining the various types of law report published by ICLR. Whether you’re just about to begin studying… Continue reading
Guest post by Catherine Baksi Can an Oscar-winning playwright and a former Eastenders actor succeed where placard-waving lawyers have failed, in drawing to the public’s attention the devastating impact of the legal aid cuts? Far from the glamorous, high-octane legal world portrayed on the small screen in dramas like Silk and Judge Deed, Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play… Continue reading
This week’s baggage reclaim of legal news and open and shut cases includes yet more to-ing and fro-ing on industrial action by legal aid lawyers, the tale of a terror trial that can’t be told, an attempt to prevent the plagiarism of punchlines and the locking of law behind a licence to Lexis. (Alliteration is… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and events is brought to you from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where ICLR is showing at the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). It sees both a President and a Lord Chancellor in jail; a parliamentary look at the latter’s role; and a barristerial vote for direct… Continue reading
AALL aboard for the American tour! The ICLR is in Philadelphia for the next few days, for the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Among the thousands of delegates will be a substantial number from law schools and colleges over here for whom access to the most important English common law… Continue reading
To commemorate the fact that ICLR has been creating case history for the last 150 years, we’ve put together a special Anniversary Edition of the Law Reports, which includes the 15 top cases voted for by you, our readers. The results of that poll, and the cases chosen, are set out below. But first, a bit… Continue reading
This week’s collection of legal news and events includes a major update to ICLR Online, a surprise move in legal publishing, an after dinner speech, a Gentleman’s view of gentlemen’s clubs, and a worrying retreat from the open justice rule. Legal Publishing ICLR Online version 2.5 goes live ICLR Online, the simple and effective… Continue reading
This week’s playlist of legal news includes a decision not to defend, a decision not to prosecute reviewed, a fretting over intellectual property claims, and a direction to save only the most expensive and interesting divorces for our top family judges. Plus the usual catalogue of dreadfulness from overseas. Defence lawyers down tools Solicitors support direct action while Bar… Continue reading
