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Paul Magrath reviews the latest courtroom thriller from Peter Murphy, in which barrister Ben Schroeder deals with a case involving spies, drug dealers and high level police corruption.… Continue reading about Book review: Verbal, by Peter Murphy
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 22 June 2020
David Burrows reviews a book that considers to what extent in recent years the senior judiciary have shaped the law themselves or left the job of law reform to Parliament. … Continue reading about Book review: Enemies of the People? How Judges Shape Society, by Joshua Rozenberg
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 15 June 2020
Georgina Orde, Susanne Rook and Paul Magrath from ICLR joined the Lord Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers – all walking in isolation and in different locations – to raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust which funds Law Centres and pro bono agencies in and around London.… Continue reading about We walked the walk (remotely) #10kStepsForJustice
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 8 June 2020
“The rapid expansion of the use of remote hearings has been central to facilitating the continued operation of the justice system”, notes Dr Natalie Byrom in the introduction to her report, for the Civil Justice Council, examining the impact of the changes mandated by COVID-19 on the operation of the civil justice system.
But how well are they going and what can we learn from the experience? This post takes a look at her team’s key findings and recommendations. … Continue reading about Civil Justice Council report on the impact of COVID-19 on civil courts
We return after the short Whitsun break for the Trinity Law Term, with a roundup of what’s been happening in the world of law and to some extent, unavoidably, politics.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 1 June 2020
We’ve added a new feature to ICLR.3 enabling users to “jump to” a particular paragraph in our full text law reports. This functionality adds to the ability to jump straight to a page and to navigate precisely to any one of a number of elements in the case report using the Table of Contents on… Continue reading about Features update: ‘Jump to’ paragraph or page and ToC navigation on ICLR.3
A coalition of campaigning organisations, academics and open justice advocates are calling on the government to make sure that the public and media have proper access to our courts.… Continue reading about Open letter from NGOs and academics on open justice in the Covid-19 emergency
