Weekly Notes

This week’s merry-go-roundup of legal news and events includes a U-turning Lord Chancellor, a truanting parent, a litigious aunt, a savvy data subject and his refusal to dock in an unsafe harbour. UPDATED 22 October 2015 Ryanair Justice Gove predicted to bin tax on guilt After debating a motion of regret, members of the House… Continue reading

The big news this week has been ICLR’s own birthday, and the book, the talk and the bursary which came with it. But we’ve squeezed in some other news as well.   “150 Not Out” ICLR’s sesquicentennial celebration   Recently (see below) a judge in the United States ruled that the tune of the popular song… Continue reading

This week’s sketch of key events in the legal calendar includes the Lord Chancellor’s breakfast, some regulatory news, new legislation, toytown terrorism and a classical philosopher’s retrial. Plus highs and lows of laws overseas. Happy New Legal Year New Lord Chancellor’s breakfast of judicial champions Michael Gove, as Lord Chancellor, opened the legal year in the… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and events includes Lord Sumption’s assumption, Jeremy Corbyn’s legal team, Gove’s policy revisions, and two Transparency Project investigations. Plus human rights in foreign parts and a porcine speculation.   Judicial diversity Lord Sumption makes an assumption In modern Britain, the fastest way to make enemies is to deliver a… Continue reading

The latest buffet of legal news and events includes confusion over sex cases, the heroic resistance of art to official state stupidity, and links to some interesting reading and lectures. And over the next week Team ICLR is in Berlin, to record its impressions of international librarianship.   Ai Weiwei at the RA Prisoner of conscience makes art… Continue reading

This week’s collection of legal news and related matters includes the legality of drone strikes, the fate of Just Solutions, the future of human rights legislation and the decline and fall of English literature’s most controversial novel.   Legality of drone strikes Is there a Kill List? The announcement by David Cameron in the House… Continue reading

We resume our weekly survey of legal news and events with a catchup of what’s been happening over the vacation, both at home and abroad. Red Queen redux What does acquitted phonehacking defendant Rebekah Brooks’ reinstallation as chief executive at News Corp UK say about money, Murdoch and management? Reading Beyond Contempt, Peter Jukes’ eyewitness… Continue reading

This week’s baggage reclaim of legal news and open and shut cases includes yet more to-ing and fro-ing on industrial action by legal aid lawyers, the tale of a terror trial that can’t be told, an attempt to prevent the plagiarism of punchlines and the locking of law behind a licence to Lexis. (Alliteration is… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and events is brought to you from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where ICLR is showing at the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). It sees both a President and a Lord Chancellor in jail; a parliamentary look at the latter’s role; and a barristerial vote for direct… Continue reading

This week’s collection of legal news and events includes a major update to ICLR Online, a surprise move in legal publishing, an after dinner speech, a Gentleman’s view of gentlemen’s clubs, and a worrying retreat from the open justice rule.   Legal Publishing ICLR Online version 2.5 goes live ICLR Online, the simple and effective… Continue reading