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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 9 October 2017

As the party conference season draws to a close, our weekly roundup of legal news and comment considers various aspects of Brexit, some scrutiny of the Court of Protection, sentence inflation in the criminal courts and a battle royal between Crown Court bibles.  Politics Conference follies Brexit and the Tories have made a mess of Continue reading

ICLR Pupillage Award 2017 winner: Ben Haseldine

  Congratulations to Ben Haseldine, seen here on the left, receiving this year’s ICLR Pupillage Award from the Chair of our Council, Richard Fleck, on the right. The presentation took place at a small reception held at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London. Ben is starting pupillage at 4 King’s Bench Walk, in the chambers of Continue reading

Family law: A child’s view, a child’s set of court rules

Guest post by David Burrows Child’s involvement in proceedings: ‘child’s perspective’ United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Art 12.1 requires that signatories (of which the UK is one) “shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in Continue reading

Weekly Notes – Legal News from ICLR: 2 October 2017

Our regular roundup of legal news and commentary resumes after the long summer recess with a selection focussing on the judiciary, court reform, and access to justice. We’ll have more in due course – there’s a lot to catch up on after the break. An additional excitement comes from the fact that, during the legal vacation, we took the opportunity to switch over to our lovely new website, ICLR.3   Continue reading

The Rule of Law and Open Justice

 Guest post by James Keeley The rule of law keeps us from chaos. It accepts who we are as human beings embracing our ethnicity, our sexuality and our abilities as well as our limitations. Through it we are given the chance to speak freely so long as we do so without prejudice and without harming Continue reading

A sad farewell to Solicitors’ Journal

When ICLR was founded in 1865, the Solicitors Journal was already almost a decade old. For many years, the two publishers have been associated, principally through the legal case summaries which ICLR’s reporters have contributed to the magazine. Earlier this month, the journal’s current owners made the no doubt agonising decision to close it down. Continue reading

Important Changes to One-Off PDF Purchasing System

On 15 September 2017, we will be changing the ordering process used for pay-as-you-go PDF purchasing. Please read the following carefully. Since 2011, we have made individual PDFs of all of our cases reports available for one-off purchase using our e-commerce store at iclr.co.uk. As of 15 September 2017, we will decommission that e-commerce process Continue reading

NEWS: Daniel Hoadley to deliver UK Open Law talk in New Jersey

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Hoadley (former ICLR law reporter and co-designer of ICLR Online) will be delivering a talk on open access to case law at the Law Via The Internet annual conference at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey (19-21 October 2017). Not one to pull his punches, Daniel’s talk Continue reading

Family law: Mrs Owens – a divorce in 2017

The concept of “no fault divorce” has gained traction in recent years, but the recent case of Owens v Owens and the image it conjures up of a wife trapped in a loveless marriage has concentrated people’s minds on the issue. As the case heads towards a further appeal hearing in the Supreme Court, David Continue reading