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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 4 February 2019

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment has a crime-heavy flavour, including disclosure of spent convictions and youth reprimands, measures to tackle knife crime, the defence of legal aid, and plans for the future of the CPS. Plus the 30th anniversary of the Children Act 1989. Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 28 January 2019

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes mental capacity law, domestic abuse legislation, cohabitation and the myth of the common law marriage, and developments in legal information and ethics. But first, the work-life balance for lawyers and how it can be improved. Continue reading

Book review: Under the Wig by William Clegg QC

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

Book review: One Law For the Rest of Us, by Peter Murphy

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