Weekly Notes
News, analysis, comment and updates from ICLR's case law and UK legislation platform
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a Brexit vote (or three), developments and delays in court digitisation, Bloody Sunday prosecutions or the lack of them, and other crimes of violence, plus legal professional news.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legal aid from a litigation funder; a blame game over knife crime; proposals to create a super-regulator of digital communications, and to deal with online contempt of court; and an update on the Grenfell Tower inquiry.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a murder reconsidered, a problematic privatisation, a ducked judicial challenge, and rental discrimination.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes robotic policing, knife crime, judicial bullying, and fake news.… Continue reading
This week’s selection of recent legal news and commentary includes smarter justice to deal with crime, the promotion of public interest journalism, transparency in the family courts, the return of an ISIS bride and what she might find here — plus as little Brexit as we can get away with.… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes legal aid or the lack of it, judicial responses to court reform, women in the legal profession, use of experts in family cases, and a law reporter’s fictional case study.
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
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
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes the Parole Board, probation services, courts, legal information and pupillage.… Continue reading
In this first roundup of the Hilary Term, we cover prisons, legal aid, immigration, courts and the legal profession, among other things.… Continue reading