Weekly Notes

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment focuses on some new laws that legalise the breaking of laws, the historic role of magistrates, the state of family justice and some recent publications.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the new hostile environment for asylum seekers (and their activist lawyers); a belated undertaking to capture court user data, and a stairway to final appellate court heaven (denied), plus some recent publications of interest.… Continue reading

Welcome back to our weekly roundup of legal news and commentary, as we begin the Michaelmas Term with a catchup of what’s been happening over the long vacation, including coping with coronavirus in the courts, legislating for Brexit, rule-of-lawyer-bashing, and so on.
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As the summer vacation beckons, this term’s final roundup of legal news and commentary includes national (in)security, deprivation of citizenship, a semi-centenary of law centres, remote will witnessing, and what’s been happening in the courts. But first, a message from our CEO.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes crimes against emergency workers and shop staff, a pandemic boost to extremism, the rise of modern slavery, more lockdown litigation, and the threats to international human rights in Hong Kong and elsewhere.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a renewal for justice, more coronavirus regulations, and a crowdfunding fiasco.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes trial by (shrinking) jury, no-fault divorce, a better way of dealing with domestic abuse, and the remote future of commercial litigation.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes Brexit, Grenfell, and Covid and frankly who could ask for more. Of this sort of thing. But there is good news as well, including great new projects and ideas.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legal regulation, courts on camera and online, an audit of pandemic preparations, data protection, and anti-racism action.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a debate about parliamentary debates, more courts open but not necessarily more open courts, whether there remotely is a way where there’s a will, a bit of statuary deconstruction, and a further stay on renters not being allowed to stay.… Continue reading