Weekly Notes

This week’s selection of legal news and comment includes recent lectures by genuinely top judges Lord Thomas and Lord Neuberger, a review by the NAO of confiscation orders, and reports of some recent legal events.   Lectures Three recent lectures on topics of law, the courts and liberty. Bailii Lecture “Developing commercial law through the… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes reports on the criminal justice system, a rallying cry for progress and transparency in the family justice system, and the use and abuse of freedom of information. Criminal justice: reports National Audit Office report The NAO has reported to the Ministry of Justice on Efficiency in… Continue reading

This week’s guided tour takes us behind the scenes at the BBC in the 1970s, to the more contemporary legal world of tribunals, prosecutors and the Supreme Court, and then back to the BBC for a mashed up glimpse of fictitious Victorian grime and detection. (But, no doubt to everyone’s relief, nothing this week about… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the opening of the referendum season, the passing of two literary giants, the correction of a 30-year misdirection, and a new guide to Chancery practice. Plus Apple v FBI writ.   EU referendum In / Out / Shake it all about The Prime Minister David Cameron… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes a new approach to prisons, notes and queries on court reporting, two legal issues on internet links and the end of the Indy. Prison reform Prime Minister outlines plan for reform of prisons On 8 February David Cameron spoke at the Policy Exchange on prison reform… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the arbitrary detention of Assange; the ever-receding British Bill of Rights; a radio programme about divorce; matters of judgment, judgement (with an e) and instinct; and the future of electoral law. Inter, as they say, alia. [Updated 8 Feb]. Human rights UN working group finds Assange in “arbitrary”… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes Lord Chancellor’s legal aid U-turn, a parliamentary look at the court fees hike, a welcome piloting of transparency in the Court of Protection, and some good and bad news on diversity.   Criminal Legal Aid Gove’s dramatic U-turn poses question And the question is: what next?… Continue reading

The week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes the Miranda case on the use of anti-terror law against journalists, calls for change in the law on sexual offences, a discussion of the pros and cons of print and digital media and of printing on vellum or paper, and, in our international section, some egregious… Continue reading

A survey of themes and variations in the major legal news and developments of the past twelve months, including the anniversaries of Magna Carta and the ICLR, the general election, the legal implications of the war on terror, and some of the year’s more newsworthy cases. Paris attacks and the “terror dividend” The year was… Continue reading

This week’s hoard of gifts under the Christmas tree includes a helpful document from the Transparency Project, a less than helpful form from the MoJ, a couple of proposals from the Law Commission and the sorry tale of a dead frog in a fresh salad (recalling a snail in a bottle). Plus Santa’s data preservation… Continue reading