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We are pleased to announce that the Lexis Advance Pacific Research platform now includes links to our reports of cases on ICLR.3. Under the linking scheme, users of Lexis Advance Pacific Research content, including CaseBase, Unreported Judgments and Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, will be able to see linked citations for a range of law report… Continue reading
This week is Justice Week 2018 and as our latest roundup attests, there have been some big law stories in recent days although respect for the rule of law itself — even among lawmakers — seems to have taken yet another battering.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes a big Brexit march, a fracking upset, a winning personality and a helpful judge.
The European Court in Luxembourg enjoys a level of support and quality of facilities that domestic courts, with the possible exception of the UK Supreme Court, can only envy. Before issuing its multi-lingual judgments, the judges have the benefit, not only of a superb modern library, but also the intensively researched opinion of an Advocate General, the nature of whose role is perhaps not as well known as it could be. … Continue reading
Old cases are often the best; but, asks David Burrows, how much does the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) take notice of some of them? … Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes judicial pay, barristerial dress and dressings down, immigration transparency and the right not to make a gay cake. … Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes diversity at law, discrimination in the courts, legal aid research, and Brexit. But we begin with more civil partnerships.… Continue reading
We welcome our readers back for the start of a new legal year and the resumption of our weekly roundup of legal news and commentary.… Continue reading
Team ICLR is on its way to the 37th Annual Course of the International Association of Law Libraries.… Continue reading
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) is the latest step in bringing the hitherto unknown surveillance activities of the State into the light and under statutory control through ‘world-leading oversight’, or — depending on your point of view — the “the most intrusive surveillance regime of any democracy” that legitimises the surveillance State. (The former was how then Home Secretary Amber Rudd described it in a departmental press release; the latter was the reaction of the human rights campaign group, Liberty.)… Continue reading
