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This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes an American election, an English lockdown, and what’s been happening to courts, judges, litigants and lawyers in the meantime.… Continue reading
Andrew King reviews the compelling account of a young black barrister’s journey to the Bar and the systemic prejudice she still encounters in her professional life. … Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a further lockdown, yet more confusing regulations, courtly compliance or its lack, Brexit, equality or its lack, and someone now in the Depps of disgrace. But first, a moment of calm…… Continue reading
In this guest post, His Honour Clifford Bellamy looks at where judges come from, and how that has, or ought to have, changed in recent times. … Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes sentencing reform, media regulation, hungry children and untaxed taxis.
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In this guest post, actor Andrew Woodall shares his reaction to the Secret Barrister’s forensic demolition of public legal misinformation… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on some new laws that legalise the breaking of laws, the historic role of magistrates, the state of family justice and some recent publications.… Continue reading
An engaging account of a busy and varied legal life, told with a brisk good humour and an absence of introspection or jurisprudential angst. The title refers to an incident at Woking Golf Club.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the new hostile environment for asylum seekers (and their activist lawyers); a belated undertaking to capture court user data, and a stairway to final appellate court heaven (denied), plus some recent publications of interest.… Continue reading
Following an earlier consultation, there has been a comprehensive rewriting of the rules of court dealing with the procedure to be adopted in relation to contempt of court. We summarise the key changes. … Continue reading
