Weekly Notes

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes crimes against emergency workers and shop staff, a pandemic boost to extremism, the rise of modern slavery, more lockdown litigation, and the threats to international human rights in Hong Kong and elsewhere.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a renewal for justice, more coronavirus regulations, and a crowdfunding fiasco.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes trial by (shrinking) jury, no-fault divorce, a better way of dealing with domestic abuse, and the remote future of commercial litigation.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes Brexit, Grenfell, and Covid and frankly who could ask for more. Of this sort of thing. But there is good news as well, including great new projects and ideas.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legal regulation, courts on camera and online, an audit of pandemic preparations, data protection, and anti-racism action.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a debate about parliamentary debates, more courts open but not necessarily more open courts, whether there remotely is a way where there’s a will, a bit of statuary deconstruction, and a further stay on renters not being allowed to stay.… Continue reading

We return after the short Whitsun break for the Trinity Law Term, with a roundup of what’s been happening in the world of law and to some extent, unavoidably, politics.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes resumed Crown Court trials, remote civil appeals, police charging errors, remote prison visits, mental health pressures for young lawyers and a response to some asinine media braying.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes a plan to relax the lockdown (by staying alert), ways of continuing criminal trials, judicial leanings (on), data protection and more coronavirus guidance and commentary.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the data protection implications of contact tracing apps, more appeals on the Horizon for the Post Office IT fraud scandal, another call for feedback on remote hearings, world press freedom warnings, and some recent interesting cases.… Continue reading