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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 17 June 2019

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the Hong Kong extradition bill protests, proposed changes in the law on surrogacy, the reluctance of French judges to face digital scrutiny, and the semi-centenary conference of our British and Irish law librarians’ association. Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 10 June 2019

In this week’s roundup of legal news and commentary, the criminal bar takes up arms against the slings and arrows of outrageous legal aid cuts, though extra funding is now available to swell the thinning cohort of the senior judiciary; meanwhile Henry VIII appears in full fig in the Online Courts bill and we have updates on recent cases and forthcoming events. Continue reading

Book review: Guilty until Proven Innocent, by Jon Robins

Jon Robins anatomises a criminal appeals system that appears to prioritise public confidence over individual fairness, that only grudgingly admits miscarriages of justice and that, even then, fails to compensate its victims unless they prove the very innocence they were presumed to have had in the first place. Continue reading