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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 12 February 2018

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes charity regulation, media support, the law on trolling and intimidation, and the parole board. [Updated 15.02.18] Charities Regulation, reputational risk and safeguarding obligations The revelations in the media over the last week about Oxfam’s failure properly to investigate and deal with allegations of sexual misconduct by Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 5 February 2018

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on access to justice and is dedicated to the memory of the late Sir Henry Brooke, who did so much to promote these things. Here he is at the Bach Commission (photo: Bar Council, from an article in Legal Voice) Sir Henry Brooke We were very Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 29 January 2018

‘We need to be in touch with the real world; we need to make sure that we all play our part in promoting the highest standards, and in ensuring that we achieve and enhance the quality, integrity and best practice to which we aspire.’ Sir  Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor, speaking to the Chancery Bar Association’s annual Continue reading

Family law: ‘Injury to public morals’ – 2018 style

David Burrows considers an old scandal and an even older statute in the context of a persisting impediment on the ability of the press to print lurid accounts of the private lives of those involved in defended divorce disputes. A modern protection for public morals A flurry of tweets and blog traffic earlier this month Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 22 January 2018

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes legal aid and the rule of law, parole board transparency revisited, a court reporting crisis, and a divinely inspired judicial intervention in the jury room. Legal Aid Cash for courts not cases, says Gauke The new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, David Gauke, Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 15 January 2018

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes a ministerial reshuffle, transparency of parole board and coroner’s court decisions, and media regulation. Politics All change at the Ministry As with the changing of the guard (depicted), cabinet reshuffles seem to involve a lot of individuals marching in and out of Downing Street, with not Continue reading

Virtual, Flexible, Responsive: HMCTS Reform Roadshow at RCJ

The great hall in the Royal Courts of Justice has a cathedral-like splendour by day, but on a freezing midwinter evening its dim chandeliers failed to dispel the cavernous gloom. It was here that a crowd of some 62 legal professionals gathered on the evening of Monday 11 December, to hear about the latest developments in Continue reading

ICLR at #AALS2018 in San Diego

Team ICLR is in San Diego, California for the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. The conference runs from January 3 – 6, 2018 and its theme this year is Access to Justice The AALS 2018 Annual Meeting will be held in San Diego at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, 333 W. Harbor Continue reading