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We began this year’s Hilary Term with busy plans for legislation to Get Brexit Done, to modernise marriage and divorce laws, to deal with crime and domestic violence, and to help refugees and victims of the Windrush scandal. We end it with a population in the grip of pandemic, struggling to protect our health service and prevent economic collapse, and keeping the lamp of justice alive in the flickering screens of video conference apps. Greetings from the home study.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 6 April 2020
Guest post by Beheshteh Engineer
Are you up to the mark on rules and regs? Can you cut the mustard with civil procedure small print? Do you have a fine and as yet unruined reading voice? If so, why not sign up to this charity challenge and help provide essential legal sport. (Shouldn’t that be “support”? Ed) The current crisis… Continue reading about The Social-Distancing Compliant White Book Charity Relay Reading Challenge 2020
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes legislation, practice guidance and commentary, mostly about the conduct of court hearings and legal business under current Covid-19 restrictions.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 30 March 2020
Paul Magrath considers what has proved to be a timely and prophetic book about moving the conduct of litigation away from the physical courtroom… Continue reading about Book review: Online Courts and the Future of Justice by Richard Susskind
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a lot about Covid-19 and its effect on law and the administration of justice, with updates on practice and procedure. But there have been other stories, including the lessons learned (or not learned) about Windrush.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 23 March 2020
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes an appealing copyright claim, a valid will on a paper napkin, retro-tech in the courts, a bungled police investigation, and updates on the legal and practical effects of Coronavirus restrictions.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 16 March 2020
David Burrows considers the ‘implied undertaking’ not to release or otherwise pass on documents disclosed under compulsion in family law proceedings and whether the same rules apply as in civil proceedings… Continue reading about An ‘implied undertaking’ for family proceedings: new law or old?
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes a new Victims’ Code, domestic abuse, the rule of law, court reporting, terrorism, and advice on coping with Covid-19.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 9 March 2020
If you hold yourself out as a barrister on social media, then you’d better behave like one. Even if you’re not practising, you should still abide by the Code of Conduct. Offensive tweets can land you in trouble, as a recent case demonstrates.… Continue reading about Unregistered but not unregulated: non-practising barrister disciplined over offensive tweeting
