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Paul Magrath reviews the new edition of a lawyer’s guide to effective legal language. … Continue reading
ICLR will be closed from 22 December 2018 to 2 January 2019. We will monitor email accounts for support issues and ICLR.3 will continue to be available as normal. Featured image: by Eftodii Aurelia, via Pexels.… Continue reading
This is both a case book and a memoir, by one of our leading criminal practitioners. The cases are famous ones that got massive newspaper coverage at the time, and the man described in the memoir is both a typical and in some ways not a typical criminal law defender. Review by Paul Magrath.… Continue reading
This final roundup of the Michaelmas term see the judiciary in an educational context, fails to see the long delayed legal aid cuts review, hears pop music copyrights and wrongs, finds a risk of judicial bias ungrounded, and lacks liability for libellous links.… Continue reading
The latest novel to chart the career of Peter Murphy’s increasingly successful young criminal barrister Ben Schroeder combines the horribly contemporary issue of historic sexual abuse with a gripping courtroom drama in which the laws of evidence and the interests of national security are in play, set during the murky political era of the early 1970s.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup includes open justice and transparency at home and abroad, sound and fury in music and law, police misuse of data, a media law resource, and the unavoidable consequences of Brexit.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment covers media law, costs, family law, sexual harassment, the legal professions and a little bit of Brexit.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup catches up with the current legal conference season, plus developments in legal aid, sentencing, restorative justice, data protection and domestic abuse… Continue reading
In this week’s roundup we get cheesed off over copyright, divided over Brexit, banged up for data abuse, intolerant over evidence disclosure, and better informed about the courts, among other things.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup includes diversity and adversity in the legal professions, court reform, open justice, legal aid, Brexit bombshells, and the devil of a copyright claim.… Continue reading
