ICLR will be in Birmingham for the next few days attending the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians This year’s BIALL conference is being held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, NEC Birmingham, in the heart of the English midlands, from 7 to 9 June 2018. The theme of the conference… Continue reading
As in previous years, a team from ICLR walked the London Legal Walk earlier this week to help raise funds for pro bono legal advice. Here are some photos. Read on to find out how you can help. Team ICLR in Carey Street, ready to set off. L to R: Georgina Orde, Clive Scowen, Susanne… Continue reading
ICLR at #CALLACBD2018 ICLR’s Daniel Hoadley, Head of Marketing, and Paul Hastings, Account Manager, are on their way to Halifax, Nova Scotia for the annual (and bilingual) conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit. The theme of this year’s conference is “Build Bridges – Broaden Our Reach”, and features a logo… Continue reading
Autumn Drinks to celebrate developments in the reporting of authorised law reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales, and the Councils of Law Reporting in NSW and Victoria By Justice Macaulay 10 May 2018 The challenges for law reporting in the early 21st century may be likened to the challenges… Continue reading
Remarks to welcome to Australia the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales by Justice Steven Rares 9 May 2018 1. It is my pleasure, as Chair of the Consultative Council for Australian Law Reporting (CCALR) to welcome you to tonight’s function that has been arranged to welcome the members of the Incorporated… Continue reading
Continuing their Australian tour after #ALLA2018 in Darwin, Paul Magrath, Head of Product Development, and Paul Hastings, Account Manager went first to Sydney for a few days and then on to Melbourne. They were there to help bang the drum for the respective Councils of Law Reporting for New South Wales and Victoria, as well… Continue reading
Pre-conference warm up Team ICLR (aka ‘the two Pauls’) arrived in town a few days early in order to acclimatise to the different time zone and, as it transpired (or perspired), the very different climate in Darwin. After an unusually cold winter back in Blighty, we were not used to temperatures in the mid to… Continue reading
This week’s roundup comes from Darwin, Australia, where ICLR is sponsoring the Australian Law Librarians’ Association biennial conference, #ALLA2018. We’ve encountered warm weather, cold beer, glorious sunsets and snapping crocodiles – but no law librarians, so far. The conference proper starts on 2 May, and we’ll bring you more news about it in due course.… Continue reading
“McKenzie Night” and “Bar Snacks” among radical plans for shakeup of Inns of Court dining traditions
In an effort to break the stalemate with regulators over legal training and education, the Inns of Court have come up with a radical new plan for a more “inclusive” approach to their centuries-old tradition of dining in hall. The dinners have always been considered an essential part of training for the Bar, with formally-attired… Continue reading
This week ICLR participated for the first time in the #GreatLegalBake organised by the London Legal Support Trust. Among the creations on display were representations in cake form of ICLR’s key publications, both online and in print. For the online version, Paul Magrath created a batch of chocolate brownies iced to represent the minicards on the… Continue reading