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This last roundup of the Trinity Term includes unwatched corruption trials, a farewell to Sir James, a probation system rethink, parliamentary reports on criminal legal aid and sexual harassment at work, and another Daily Mail fiasco.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a legal aid desert, courts in chaos, divorce reform, breach of privacy and contempt of court. Human Rights Legal aid ‘deserts’ impeding enforcement In its report, Enforcing human rights (HC 669, HL Paper 171) published on 19 July 2018, the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights paints a depressing… Continue reading
Congratulations to Daniel Wand, winner of the ICLR Pupillage Award 2018 Daniel will be starting pupillage in October 2018 in the Chambers of Timothy Raggatt QC, at 4 King’s Bench Walk, which has expertise in all areas of common law. Daniel attended Hayes School in Kent before completing his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in… Continue reading
This week’s roundup includes new courts for old, lower court fees, judicial recruitment, legal tech, and rapidly dating Brexit developments. Courts City of London fraud and cyber crime complex The Ministry of Justice announced last week that a new courts complex specifically designed to tackle cyber crime, fraud, and economic crime would be opened on the site of… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes an Act of Withdrawal, new judges, anonymised litigants, legal books and bullies, and a bit about ICLR. Plus murder and unwanted criminal connections overseas. Legislation EU Withdrawal Act The Queen gave her formal assent to the passage of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which you… Continue reading
This week’s roundup steals a march on Brexit, and casts an eye on probation, accountancy, family courts and young criminals, before tripping the maple leaf rag. Brexit March for second vote rambles against the shambles The second anniversary of the referendum in which just shy of 52% of those eligible to do so (some 17… Continue reading
This week’s roundup covers a blocked ban on upskirting, bankers’ profitable wills, a looming crisis of children in care, open courts and a diverse judiciary, plus rifled copyright from the USA and a rebel yell from Oz. Crime Upskirting shambles On Friday 15 June the Ministry of Justice announced that ‘“Upskirting” is set to… Continue reading
Helen Stalford, Kathryn Hollingsworth and Stephen Gilmore (eds), Rewriting children’s rights judgments: from academic vision to new practice (Hart publishing, 2017) Reviewed by David Burrows Judgments from a children’s perspective The authors describe their aim in Rewriting children’s rights judgments as of revisiting existing case law and redrafting judgements from a children’s rights perspective.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on the courts, court reform, legal aid and family law. Court reform HMCTS Reform programme The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, delivering the first Sir Henry Brooke Memorial Lecture under the title The Age of Reform, provided a somewhat panglossian* update on the current… Continue reading
ICLR will be in Birmingham for the next few days attending the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians This year’s BIALL conference is being held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, NEC Birmingham, in the heart of the English midlands, from 7 to 9 June 2018. The theme of the conference… Continue reading
