Weekly Notes
News, analysis, comment and updates from ICLR's case law and UK legislation platform
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
Team ICLR is in San Diego, California for the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. The conference runs from January 3 – 6, 2018 and its theme this year is Access to Justice The AALS 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in San Diego at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, 333 W. Harbor… Continue reading
The 36th Annual Course of the International Association of Law Libraries in Atlanta, Georgia, USA will focus on “Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Other Critical Issues in U.S. Law”. Given both the location and recent events in the United States, it promises to be both interesting and highly topical. ICLR will be there. The conference… Continue reading
Congratulations to Ben Haseldine, seen here on the left, receiving this year’s ICLR Pupillage Award from the Chair of our Council, Richard Fleck, on the right. The presentation took place at a small reception held at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London. Ben is starting pupillage at 4 King’s Bench Walk, in the chambers of… Continue reading
On 15 September 2017, we will be changing the ordering process used for pay-as-you-go PDF purchasing. Please read the following carefully. Since 2011, we have made individual PDFs of all of our cases reports available for one-off purchase using our e-commerce store at iclr.co.uk. As of 15 September 2017, we will decommission that e-commerce process… Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that Daniel Hoadley (former ICLR law reporter and co-designer of ICLR Online) will be delivering a talk on open access to case law at the Law Via The Internet annual conference at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey (19-21 October 2017). Not one to pull his punches, Daniel’s talk… Continue reading
ICLR is pleased to announce that the winner of the ICLR Busfield Prize 2017 is Ms Sophie Clayton… Continue reading
Team ICLR is in Austin, Texas for the 110th Annual Meeting & Conference of the American Association of Law Libraries. The theme this year is “Forego the status quo”, which is something we all seem to be having to do anyway these days, in the political sphere. But in the legal sphere, maybe the big… Continue reading
