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This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a murder reconsidered, a problematic privatisation, a ducked judicial challenge, and rental discrimination.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes robotic policing, knife crime, judicial bullying, and fake news.… Continue reading
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who has changed the course of legal history in America and inspired generations of lawyers by her indomitable spirit. Paul Magrath reviews a film which charts the events in her life leading up to her first major court triumph in the continuing struggle against sex discrimination.… Continue reading
In this guest post solicitor-advocate David Rosen records a recent County Court ruling that the appropriate court in which to consider an injunction application dealing with matrimonial property is the Family Court, and recounts his experience of dealing with a litigant in person appearing via videolink. … Continue reading
This week’s selection of recent legal news and commentary includes smarter justice to deal with crime, the promotion of public interest journalism, transparency in the family courts, the return of an ISIS bride and what she might find here — plus as little Brexit as we can get away with.… Continue reading
Sarah Phillimore welcomes a new edition of a text book on child protection law now aimed at a wider readership that includes parents as well as professionals, while doubting how much lay readers will really benefit from it in a system still loaded against public understanding. … Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes legal aid or the lack of it, judicial responses to court reform, women in the legal profession, use of experts in family cases, and a law reporter’s fictional case study.
A number of changes in marriage and divorce law seem poised to be made by proposed legislation. In three linked posts, we take a quick tour round some of the bills awaiting consideration by Parliament. In this third post, Paul Magrath looks at possible extensions to the law on civil partnerships. … Continue reading
A number of changes in marriage and divorce law seem poised to be made by proposed legislation. In three linked posts, we take a quick tour round some of the bills awaiting consideration by Parliament. In this second post, David Burrows looks at the law of marriage and how that might be reformed to accommodate changes in a diverse religio-secular society. … Continue reading
A number of changes in marriage and divorce law seem poised to be made by proposed legislation. In three linked posts, we take a quick tour round some of the bills awaiting consideration by Parliament. First, Paul Magrath discusses divorce reform. … Continue reading
