Weekly Notes

We welcome you back to the short new law term, with a roundup of legal news and comment, including courts, open justice, crime and punishment, and family law. And a bit of Brexit, with regret.… Continue reading

In this last roundup of the Hilary Term, we look at the latest law and policy stories including Brexit, Assange’s extradition, the Brunei boycott, legal aid and divorce myths and new crimes on the statute book. But who is the seasonal sacrificial lamb?… Continue reading

This week’s roundup includes internet regulation, serious violence, copyright, data protection, prisons and probation, media law and animal rights.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary takes a slight detour into the realms of folly, looking at all the week’s stories that might have been an April Fool’s Day jest, but actually weren’t. Hold onto your hats - unless you’re throwing them into the ring of course. (Updated edition.)… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a march on Brexit, the pros and cons of naming killers, the discount rate for damages, plus transparency and media law updates.… Continue reading

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