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This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes a plan to relax the lockdown (by staying alert), ways of continuing criminal trials, judicial leanings (on), data protection and more coronavirus guidance and commentary.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the data protection implications of contact tracing apps, more appeals on the Horizon for the Post Office IT fraud scandal, another call for feedback on remote hearings, world press freedom warnings, and some recent interesting cases.… Continue reading
Paul Magrath reviews a former judge’s analysis of the challenge of opening up the family courts to better public scrutiny… Continue reading
Our roundup resumes after the short Easter vacation, with a fresh collection of Covid-19 related guidance and commentary, and legal thoughts from at home and abroad.… Continue reading
Novelist Elanor Dymott explains how she was inspired to move from the law to fiction via law reporting for ICLR.… Continue reading
We began this year’s Hilary Term with busy plans for legislation to Get Brexit Done, to modernise marriage and divorce laws, to deal with crime and domestic violence, and to help refugees and victims of the Windrush scandal. We end it with a population in the grip of pandemic, struggling to protect our health service and prevent economic collapse, and keeping the lamp of justice alive in the flickering screens of video conference apps. Greetings from the home study.… Continue reading
Are you up to the mark on rules and regs? Can you cut the mustard with civil procedure small print? Do you have a fine and as yet unruined reading voice? If so, why not sign up to this charity challenge and help provide essential legal sport. (Shouldn’t that be “support”? Ed) The current crisis… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legislation, practice guidance and commentary, mostly about the conduct of court hearings and legal business under current Covid-19 restrictions.… Continue reading
Paul Magrath considers what has proved to be a timely and prophetic book about moving the conduct of litigation away from the physical courtroom… Continue reading
