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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
ITV was given unprecedented access to the workings of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) but the resulting documentary was long on sentiment and rather short on legal explanation, reports Paul Magrath… Continue reading
Whoever the Secret Barrister is, they deserve massive kudos for drawing to the attention of those who might well prefer to look away the critical state of the criminal justice system in this country.… Continue reading
