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David Burrows considers the position of non-parties such as journalists or lay observers in attending, making sense of, and reporting on family courts appeals.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news includes prisons and sentencing, the legal profession and the senior judiciary. Plus recent case law and commentary.… Continue reading
ICLR will be in Geneva, Switzerland in the next few days, attending IALL’s 2023 Annual Course… Continue reading
We welcome you back at the start of another legal year with a rapid roundup of legal news and commentary over the long vacation.… Continue reading
In this guest post by Frank Cranmer, reposted from the Law & Religion UK blog, we are reminded of the key differences between the two separate but oft-confused pan-European legal regimes. … Continue reading
David Burrows on the conventional respect shown by judges towards each others’ decisions, even when not strictly bound by the rules of precedent, and how it applies in particular to the subject of anonymity in family cases. … Continue reading
In May 2023 the Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on Open Justice. The consultation closed on 7 September 2023. This was ICLR’s response. … Continue reading
The National Archives launched its Find Case Law database in mid-April 2022, under a new judgment publication system mandated by the Ministry of Justice. ICLR systematically monitored the publication of listed cases under this new system over its first twelve months of operation. Our report combines statistics for the efficiency and coverage of cases listed for judgment in the Daily Cause List with other publication data, and monitors the relationship between the listing and publication of judgments as part of the overall judgments data ecosystem and its importance to Open Justice.… Continue reading
Recalling his own experiences as a young lawyer, David Burrows looks at the different approaches on either side of the Atlantic to the preliminary hearings in criminal cases that test the strength of a prosecution and assess its fitness for trial. … Continue reading
Paul Magrath reviews a pivotal collection of essays and observations about the use of designerly thinking in legal education … Continue reading
