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Remarks to welcome to Australia the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales by Justice Steven Rares 9 May 2018 1. It is my pleasure, as Chair of the Consultative Council for Australian Law Reporting (CCALR) to welcome you to tonight’s function that has been arranged to welcome the members of the Incorporated… Continue reading about Authorised law reporting: A welcome in New South Wales
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes the match made in heaven, or at any rate Windsor – among other, less frothy content, such as forensic science, courts, coroners and end of life decisions in the family courts. Royal Wedding Legal commentary Lest readers might think we had succumbed to the national hysteria… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 21 May 2018
Our weekly roundup of legal news and commentary returns after a fortnight’s gap while we attended a conference in Darwin and other events in Australia. This week’s selection has a lot about family law, for reasons that will become apparent; also immigration, legal aid in criminal cases, freedom of information, court reform, and copyright. Family… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 14 May 2018
Continuing their Australian tour after #ALLA2018 in Darwin, Paul Magrath, Head of Product Development, and Paul Hastings, Account Manager went first to Sydney for a few days and then on to Melbourne. They were there to help bang the drum for the respective Councils of Law Reporting for New South Wales and Victoria, as well… Continue reading about ICLR in Sydney and Melbourne, 6-12 May 2018
Pre-conference warm up Team ICLR (aka ‘the two Pauls’) arrived in town a few days early in order to acclimatise to the different time zone and, as it transpired (or perspired), the very different climate in Darwin. After an unusually cold winter back in Blighty, we were not used to temperatures in the mid to… Continue reading about #ALLA2018 – Darwin Diary
This week’s roundup comes from Darwin, Australia, where ICLR is sponsoring the Australian Law Librarians’ Association biennial conference, #ALLA2018. We’ve encountered warm weather, cold beer, glorious sunsets and snapping crocodiles – but no law librarians, so far. The conference proper starts on 2 May, and we’ll bring you more news about it in due course.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 30 April 2018
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes cautionary tales from court, a pricking of passing-off pomposity, a papal intervention over a baby’s best interests, Brexit, and investigation into NDAs and sexual harassment. (Separate post on legal education to follow.) Courts Cautionary tales about conduct Two recent blog posts discuss issues around breaches of… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 23 April 2018
By David Burrows Clarification of a court judgment Re P (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 720 (11 April 2018) saw the Court of Appeal dealing with a very disturbed 16 year old “T” who, with her sister “X” had been adopted by a couple. In 2014 she had said she had been sexually abused… Continue reading about Family law: European Convention 1950 questions in care proceedings
Our first roundup of the Easter term includes chemical weapons, media law and data protection claims, immigration justice and injustice, and some older stories you may have missed over the holiday recess. Media law BBC facing Cliff edge In the trial in the claim by Sir Cliff Richard against the BBC before Mann J in… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 16 April 2018
In this guest post, Barbara Rich explains how the Daily Mail missed an opportunity to explain the essential rights of a cohabitant to ask the court to make reasonable provision for her under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, rather than describing the case as a judge simply overturning the deceased’s wishes… Continue reading about Inheritance disputes and the media: making wishes come untrue
