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Set aside: a new rule for financial relief proceedings By David Burrows It cannot often be that you need a seventy-year old case to construe a brand new statutory provision; but the recent addition of rule 9.9A to the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (application to set aside a financial remedy order) makes such a demand:… Continue reading about Old Case Law to Construe a New Rule
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary covers the start of the new law term and the conclusion of the political conference season, with media, privacy and employment issues also discussed. There’s poetry amidst the pain, and content from home and abroad. Legal profession Lord Chancellor’s breakfast Or should that be the new low-budget… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 10 October 2016
This first week of the Michaelmas Term is traditionally the time when pupils start their training for life at the Bar. His Honour John Samuels QC, Chairman of the Lincoln’s Inn Pupillage Scheme has some useful words of advice.… Continue reading about Pupillage advice: welcome to the rollercoaster ride of a life at the Bar
The very fact that criminal cases account for around a quarter of ICLR’s annual coverage is testament to the fact that English criminal law is in a continual state of development and adjustment in the courts. For criminal practitioners, this means continual effort must be applied to keeping track of the ever-changing rules and points… Continue reading about The Criminal Law Update – Autumn 2016
Welcome back! In this week’s roundup we catch up with some of the legal news and events that you may have missed over the summer vacation, as well as some more recent stories. as we prepare to get busy with the new legal term. Breaking… Brexit latest Government announces “Bill to repeal the European Communities… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 3 October 2016
In response to an invitation from the Great Britain China Centre, the ICLR was one of a number of publishers who contributed books and other materials for an exhibition at the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) museum in Beijing earlier this year. The exhibition was held to mark British Legal Week in China, as part of… Continue reading about British Legal Week in China
Paul Magrath reviews a mesmerising new courtroom thriller in which Peter Murphy’s ambitious barrister hero Ben Schroeder takes on a challenging case involving a Welsh nationalist bomb plot. All the details of barristerial life, the rules of ethics and evidence, and the courtroom procedure appropriate for the 1960s period setting are pitch perfect. Yet is… Continue reading about Book review: The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr by Peter Murphy
Sophia Stapleton, winner of the inaugural ICLR Pupillage Award, offers some advice based on her own experience in applying for, and getting, a pupillage. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein Getting pupillage can be hard. A rejection does not mean that all… Continue reading about Pupillage Applications: Surviving Rejection
This is the first year that the ICLR have given a pupillage award, which is worth £12,000 for a barrister, taken on as a pupil in a set of chambers doing mainly publicly funded work, and in receipt of an existing pupil award from those chambers of no more than £14,000. The award was launched… Continue reading about The ICLR Pupillage Award’s first winner: Sophia Stapleton
Case comment by Paul Magrath, Head of Product Development and Online Content… Continue reading about Giving a clear and simple judgment: how hard can it be?
