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Welcome to the ICLR Criminal Law Updater for June 2014. Here’s our round up of the reportable and unreportable criminal cases decided in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) and the UK Supreme Court over the last four weeks. Where a transcript is available on BAILII, a linked reference has been provided. Reportable Cases R… Continue reading about ICLR Criminal Law Updater (June 2014)
A selection of topical legal news from the UK and around the world, including phonehacking, fraud and other wongadoing, and those dismal legal aid statistics. Other recent posts from ICLR: Life at the Bar: A North-South Divide? Review of Barristers’ Working Lives: a second biennial survey of the Bar (2013) Team ICLR at BIALL 2014… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 27 June 2014
By Kate O’Connell, Account Manager Last week saw Team ICLR head off to the annual British and Irish Association of Law Librarians Conference in Harrogate. The BIALL conference has long been one of the most important and enjoyable for Team ICLR as it gives us a chance to get together with friends and customers from… Continue reading about Team ICLR at BIALL 2014 – conference diary
Barristers’ Working Lives: a second biennial survey of the Bar (2013) was jointly published by the Bar Council and Bar Standards Board on 18 June. In this post, we look at some of the results and implications of this snapshot of life at the Bar. In particular, we look at the effect of cuts in… Continue reading about Life at the Bar: A North-South Divide?
A selection of topical legal news from the UK and around the world, including Magna Carta’s legacy, the pros and cons of the European Court of Human Rights, and trials fair and foul. Other recent posts from ICLR: BIALL conference 2014: The Curious Case of the Judgment Enhancers, text of a talk by Daniel Hoadley… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: Legal news from ICLR – 20 June 2014
The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) held their 45th annual conference in June 2014 at the Harrogate International Conference Centre. ICLR was at Stand No 10 to offer demonstrations, free trials and subscription sign-ups of ICLR Online to delegates. And among the speakers at the plenary sessions, Daniel Hoadley, ICLR’s Business Development… Continue reading about BIALL conference 2014: The Curious Case of the Judgment Enhancers
A selection of topical legal news from the UK and around the world, including secret trials and not-so-secret tribulations, not forgetting google and some end of term reports from courts and regulators, with a sprinkling of alphabetical acronyms. This blog has been updated with new links as at 23 June 2014. Open justice and… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 13 June 2014
This week’s stories are mostly about speeches – including the Queen’s speech and the laws her government say they will make, free speech (under article 10) and the laws which interfere with it (especially on the internet), and speeches on the future of law by the Lord Chief Justice and the future of the legal… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 6 June 2014
Reviewed by Paul Magrath Stolen elections, military coups, kidnapping, extortion and terror. We may think these things only happen in unstable third world countries, but Peter Murphy shows how close to home – to the White House itself – these things could come. In his first political thriller, REMOVAL, Murphy showed us how a presidential… Continue reading about Test of Resolve, by Peter Murphy
By Rebecca Herle, Head of Marketing Welcome to Winnipeg Cosily known as the “Little Chicago” of Canada by its visitors and more fondly as the ‘Peg’ by its inhabitants, Winnipeg is the third largest Canadian city. On first impressions it would appear the poorer of its two bigger siblings, Toronto and Montreal, and a little… Continue reading about CALLing Winnipeg: ICLR at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual conference
