Weekly Notes

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.

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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

In this first roundup of the Hilary Term, we cover prisons, legal aid, immigration, courts and the legal profession, among other things.… Continue reading

This final roundup of the Michaelmas term see the judiciary in an educational context, fails to see the long delayed legal aid cuts review, hears pop music copyrights and wrongs, finds a risk of judicial bias ungrounded, and lacks liability for libellous links.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup includes open justice and transparency at home and abroad, sound and fury in music and law, police misuse of data, a media law resource, and the unavoidable consequences of Brexit.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup of legal news and comment covers media law, costs, family law, sexual harassment, the legal professions and a little bit of Brexit.… Continue reading

This week’s roundup catches up with the current legal conference season, plus developments in legal aid, sentencing, restorative justice, data protection and domestic abuse… Continue reading

In this week’s roundup we get cheesed off over copyright, divided over Brexit, banged up for data abuse, intolerant over evidence disclosure, and better informed about the courts, among other things.… Continue reading