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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 5 February 2016

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the arbitrary detention of Assange; the ever-receding British Bill of Rights; a radio programme about divorce; matters of judgment, judgement (with an e) and instinct; and the future of electoral law. Inter, as they say, alia. [Updated 8 Feb]. Human rights UN working group finds Assange in “arbitrary” Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 29 January 2016

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes Lord Chancellor’s legal aid U-turn, a parliamentary look at the court fees hike, a welcome piloting of transparency in the Court of Protection, and some good and bad news on diversity.   Criminal Legal Aid Gove’s dramatic U-turn poses question And the question is: what next? Continue reading

Book Review: Kid Gloves, by Adam Mars-Jones

In a blend of biography, memoir and a certain amount of amateur legal analysis, Adam Mars-Jones discusses his sometimes difficult relationship with his father, the High Court judge Sir William Mars-Jones, whom he cared for in his declining years and now recalls both as a private man with his family and as a public figure Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 22 January 2016

The week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes the Miranda case on the use of anti-terror law against journalists, calls for change in the law on sexual offences, a discussion of the pros and cons of print and digital media and of printing on vellum or paper, and, in our international section, some egregious Continue reading

Annual Notes 2015: review of the year

A survey of themes and variations in the major legal news and developments of the past twelve months, including the anniversaries of Magna Carta and the ICLR, the general election, the legal implications of the war on terror, and some of the year’s more newsworthy cases. Paris attacks and the “terror dividend” The year was Continue reading

Criminal Law – 2015 Case Law Review

Introduction to the Review The purpose of this Review is to pull together the most significant criminal cases decided in 2015 into one place and to provide a short “snippet” on each that e ncapsulates the principle of law for which they stand as authority. There are many superior alternatives to this sort of “updater” Continue reading

Book review: Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories

Jeremy Hutchinson, who later became Lord Hutchinson of Lullington QC, was a leading criminal defence advocate, involved in many of the most important cases of the 1960s and 70s, particularly those involving espionage, official secrecy and various forms of censorship. Paul Magrath reviews a celebration of Hutchinson’s most interesting cases, written up by fellow barrister Continue reading

Legislation – always playing catchup?

When the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) was set up in 1865 its Objects of Association included the publication, not only of case law, but also statutes. As ICLR celebrates 150 years of providing reliable, accurate reporting of legal information, Paul Magrath looks at how its approach to legislation has changed, and the unending Continue reading