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This week’s roundup of legal news from home and abroad includes more on the war on Human Rights, a nasty case of vigilante justice, an amusing case of voter ignorance and a comment on the citation of cartoon quotations. Other recent content of interest: The Children Act by Ian McEwan, reviewed by Paul Magrath… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 10 October 2014
Reviewed by Paul Magrath Ian McEwan’s latest novel, The Children Act, is named after a statute; and the story it tells is about a High Court judge. But its true purpose seems to be to provide a literary appreciation of the art of writing judgments. Not just any old judgments, though. For McEwan seems… Continue reading about The Children Act by Ian McEwan
This week’s selection of law and injustice from home and abroad includes a Human Rights Act rethink, a peaceful pro-democracy protest movement, a prose appraisal of the best of the Bar and a poetic appraisal of Google’s cack-fisted attempts to implement the Right to Deletion of Dubious Data-links, otherwise known as RTBF. HRA replacement therapy… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 3 October 2014
This week’s selection of stuff about law and injustice from home and abroad includes Labour’s position on legal aid, the state of the nation’s prisons and a weird little story about Ukulele bands. Also of interest, in the legal blogosphere this week: Clarity in law: precedent law by David Burrows on dbfamilylaw Who to follow… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 26 September 2014
This week’s collection of law and injustice from home and abroad includes human rights, legal aid, open justice and various forms of separatism, with stories from Scotland, China, Turkey, Iran, New Zealand and South Africa. And we’ll be updating them with more as things develop. Legal Aid (civil) – Rights of Women protest outside… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 19 September 2014
This week’s selection of legal stories from home and abroad includes the legal consequences of a Scottish schism, the half-life (or half-death) of privacy, and the effect of legal aid cuts and new court fees on access to justice. Plus a bumper roundup of global tales of law and injustice. UPDATED: 15 September 2014. … Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 12 September 2014
Cases and their status as good law. In a Common Law jurisdiction, judges have the ability to change or clarify the law and to set precedents which bind the court in later cases. But as the law is continually developing, and as cases decided by one court can be affected by later decisions of a… Continue reading about Judicial consideration: a reporter’s guide to good law
This week’s roundup of recent law stories from home and abroad looks at legal regulation, deregulation and amateurisation; at investigation of abuse and abuse of investigation; and at attempts to prosecute economic crime and prevent gay marriage. Other recent posts of interest (from the new Transparency Project blog): Open justice and access to law: why… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 5 September 2014
If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing properly. If a right is worth having, it’s worth protecting that right in wartime, peacetime and any time in between. In a civilised and democratic society, such as we all claim to want to protect, the presumption of individual liberty does not simply evaporate as… Continue reading about Terror makes tyrants of us all: Boris and the Reverse Burden proposal
This week’s roundup looks at open justice, transparency, the independence of a sometimes outspoken judiciary, and the risk of removing special canteens in the criminal court. Plus the usual survey of law and injustice in foreign parts. Also on the blog this week: Terror makes tyrants of us all: Boris and the Reverse Burden proposal… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 29 August 2014
