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Dr Jo Beswick, senior law lecturer at Staffordshire University, reviews a former prisoner’s account of their journey through the criminal justice system, and finds that it challenges many of the popular misconceptions about prison life.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes crimes against emergency workers and shop staff, a pandemic boost to extremism, the rise of modern slavery, more lockdown litigation, and the threats to international human rights in Hong Kong and elsewhere.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a renewal for justice, more coronavirus regulations, and a crowdfunding fiasco.… Continue reading
The chief executive of HMCTS, Susan Acland-Hood, has responded to an open letter from NGOs and academics raising concerns about the provision of open justice measures during the COVID-19 emergency period.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes trial by (shrinking) jury, no-fault divorce, a better way of dealing with domestic abuse, and the remote future of commercial litigation.… Continue reading
Paul Magrath reviews the latest courtroom thriller from Peter Murphy, in which barrister Ben Schroeder deals with a case involving spies, drug dealers and high level police corruption.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes Brexit, Grenfell, and Covid and frankly who could ask for more. Of this sort of thing. But there is good news as well, including great new projects and ideas.… Continue reading
David Burrows reviews a book that considers to what extent in recent years the senior judiciary have shaped the law themselves or left the job of law reform to Parliament. … Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legal regulation, courts on camera and online, an audit of pandemic preparations, data protection, and anti-racism action.… Continue reading
Georgina Orde, Susanne Rook and Paul Magrath from ICLR joined the Lord Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers – all walking in isolation and in different locations – to raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust which funds Law Centres and pro bono agencies in and around London.… Continue reading
