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TV cameras will be allowed into the Court of Appeal for the first time from October 2013 and senior judges will be offered training before appearing on camera, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge told the Lords Constitution Committee on 30 January. The select committee takes evidence from the Lord Chief Justice (pictured above) each year… Continue reading

The Supreme Court is now giving judgments in the most open court imaginable: the court of public opinion, otherwise known as YouTube.  As of today, the Supreme Court is making available a collection of 25 video summaries of its judgments given last term, between October and December 2012, on its own dedicated YouTube channel, UKSupremeCourt.… Continue reading

Sign up for our FREE weekly update of all new cases published by ICLR. Get case names and citations listed by subject matter, with live links to the full reports on ICLR Online and to free case summaries on our website. If you don’t already subscribe to the full reports, you will be prompted to… Continue reading

Anyone who has been following the news from India will be horrified by the appalling case of the female student who died after being gang-raped by five men on a bus in Delhi. The case has caused outrage both at home and abroad, not least because it does not appear to have been an isolated… Continue reading

For justice to be seen to be done, judgments given in open court must be accessible in two senses. They must be clearly written so that a reasonably well informed member of the public can understand what is being decided. But they must also be available to the public, and in this sense their accessibility… Continue reading

“There’s one thing I always say about life in the law and that’s always to expect the unexpected,” said OldSmoothie today.“What like ageing, fat barristers not spouting clichéd advice to pupils?” said BusyBody.“Or judges not having got o…… Continue reading

A small link for a mouse but a giant leap forward for users of both ICLR Online and BAILII. Launched on 1 October 2012, the start of the new legal term, a new feature of ICLR’s online case law database now enables subscribers to link directly…… Continue reading

What are the sources of American law?One of them, obviously, is English law. But, as these images from the front elevation of a Los Angeles courthouse show, it’s not the only one. Here are the three individual sources, as represented by those stat…… Continue reading

Depictions of the English legal system in art are rather less common than, say, its appearances in legal dramas or novels. This is surprising, given the opportunities it affords for the study of human nature in crisis. The explanation may have somethin…… Continue reading

In a recent High Court decision two major news organisations were found in contempt of court for their coverage of a major criminal trial. 

Coming just five days after the latest of the ICLR Encounters, in which much of the panel discussion centred on media coverage of court proceedings, it only serves to underline how topical and relevant is this series of discreet intelligent panel debates about legal concepts and how we write about them… Continue reading