Weekly Notes
News, analysis, comment and updates from ICLR's case law and UK legislation platform
In this week’s roundup of legal news and commentary, the criminal bar takes up arms against the slings and arrows of outrageous legal aid cuts, though extra funding is now available to swell the thinning cohort of the senior judiciary; meanwhile Henry VIII appears in full fig in the Online Courts bill and we have updates on recent cases and forthcoming events.… Continue reading
Welcome back: our first roundup of the Trinity Term features Boris Johnson in the dock, questions around crime stats, crowdfunding civil litigation, lawtech, and legal professions.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes fundamental dishonesty by PI claimants, the place of the dock in the criminal courtroom, the mental capacity of a person to consent to sex, and some recent new legislation.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes court reform, family justice and the availability of the judiciary as a commercial service. Plus something uplifting from Reading County Court.
We welcome you back to the short new law term, with a roundup of legal news and comment, including courts, open justice, crime and punishment, and family law. And a bit of Brexit, with regret.… Continue reading
In this last roundup of the Hilary Term, we look at the latest law and policy stories including Brexit, Assange’s extradition, the Brunei boycott, legal aid and divorce myths and new crimes on the statute book. But who is the seasonal sacrificial lamb?… Continue reading
This week’s roundup includes internet regulation, serious violence, copyright, data protection, prisons and probation, media law and animal rights.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary takes a slight detour into the realms of folly, looking at all the week’s stories that might have been an April Fool’s Day jest, but actually weren’t. Hold onto your hats - unless you’re throwing them into the ring of course. (Updated edition.)… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a march on Brexit, the pros and cons of naming killers, the discount rate for damages, plus transparency and media law updates.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a Brexit vote (or three), developments and delays in court digitisation, Bloody Sunday prosecutions or the lack of them, and other crimes of violence, plus legal professional news.… Continue reading
