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Welcome back to a new legal year with the first of this term’s roundups of legal news and commentary. We begin by reviewing what’s been happening in the legal world over the long summer vacation, including some significant developments in constitutional law.… Continue reading
For all practical purposes, the free legal database run by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is an official source of judgments from senior courts that any member of the public or any journalist can use. But while anyone can read individual judgments and quote bits of them elsewhere, what are the rules about downloading and re-using the content in bulk? Is it public open data or are there restrictions on its re-use? There seems to be some confusion about this, which this article (reposted from the Transparency Project blog) aims to unpick.… Continue reading
Louise Hopson, assistant editor of the Business Law Reports, highlights a recent Court of Appeal judgment warning practitioners against superfluous citation of unreported cases.… Continue reading
David Burrows explains the current state of the common law on release of court material after a family case hearing… Continue reading
Sarah Phillimore reviews a new book by Frank Feehan QC and Caroline Harrison on the rights of vulnerable witnesses and the duties of advocates towards them in family and criminal proceedings… Continue reading
It’s been a while since we’ve done a roundup of legal podcasts and, as the summer gives way to autumn, with new terms both legal and academic due to start soon, we thought it might be useful to look at some of the new ones and remind ourselves of some of the established favourites. … Continue reading
David Burrows considers what a recent Supreme Court decision says for open justice and common law proceedings generally, and family proceedings in particular. … Continue reading
In Court Number One the author (who is also a practising barrister) presents an anthology of great trials from the Central Criminal Court, generally known (after the street name) as The Old Bailey, and the epicentre of the English criminal justice system in the 20th century.… Continue reading
On 7 August 2019, the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting’s newly formed research lab, ICLR&D, launched the prototype version of its legal natural language processing system, Blackstone. … Continue reading
As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Legal Aid Act 1949, David Burrows looks at the origins and current state of public funding for legal advice and litigation… Continue reading
