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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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 4 February 2019
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 28 January 2019
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes the Parole Board, probation services, courts, legal information and pupillage.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 21 January 2019
In this first roundup of the Hilary Term, we cover prisons, legal aid, immigration, courts and the legal profession, among other things.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 14 January 2019
David Burrows congratulates Nathalie Lieven QC on her appointment to the High Court bench in the Family Division, particularly in view of her background and experience in administrative law cases.… Continue reading about On the appointment of Lieven J to the Family Division
Paul Magrath reviews the new edition of a lawyer’s guide to effective legal language. … Continue reading about Book review: Clarity for Lawyers, by Mark Adler and Daphne Perry
ICLR will be closed from 22 December 2018 to 2 January 2019. We will monitor email accounts for support issues and ICLR.3 will continue to be available as normal. Featured image: by Eftodii Aurelia, via Pexels.… Continue reading about A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from ICLR
This is both a case book and a memoir, by one of our leading criminal practitioners. The cases are famous ones that got massive newspaper coverage at the time, and the man described in the memoir is both a typical and in some ways not a typical criminal law defender. Review by Paul Magrath.… Continue reading about Book review: Under the Wig by William Clegg QC
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 about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR — 17 December 2018
The latest novel to chart the career of Peter Murphy’s increasingly successful young criminal barrister Ben Schroeder combines the horribly contemporary issue of historic sexual abuse with a gripping courtroom drama in which the laws of evidence and the interests of national security are in play, set during the murky political era of the early 1970s.… Continue reading about Book review: One Law For the Rest of Us, by Peter Murphy
