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This week’s playlist of legal news includes a decision not to defend, a decision not to prosecute reviewed, a fretting over intellectual property claims, and a direction to save only the most expensive and interesting divorces for our top family judges. Plus the usual catalogue of dreadfulness from overseas. Defence lawyers down tools Solicitors support… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 3 July 2015
Everything about ICLR Online has been designed to provide users with a clear and easy to use online legal research environment.We are now pleased to announce a suite of developments that will make ICLR Online even more useful. Case Law Browsing ICLR Online has already been equipped with simple but powerful search tools. The existing… Continue reading about Primary law at your fingertips: New features coming to ICLR Online
This week’s tour d’horizon of legal issues covers a ministerial speech and its reception, a legal uprising, approval for a flawed scheme of advocatory accreditation, more tales of thwarted transparency, and a majority decision of the US Supreme Court making the Constitution fit for pride. Apologies for late posting – due to a Microsoft-enabled file… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 26 June 2015
Find out which cases have been getting the most votes for inclusion in our special Anniversary Edition, to celebrate ICLR’s sesquicentenary. We’ve been reporting cases for 150 years and now we’re putting them all on trial. Which cases made the biggest difference in the development of the common law? Which are the landmarks that really… Continue reading about Case Law On Trial: 1996 to 2014
This week’s collection of legal news and events includes more on Magna Carta, a legal triumph for Lego, a despatch on dubious dealings, and a survey of sickness and stress in the Civil Service. Plus more horrors from Abroad. And some nice pictures. You’re welcome. Magna Carta redux Universal law that anyone can cite… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 19 June 2015
A Night at the Museum and a Day to Remember This year’s British and Irish Association of Law Librarians’ annual conference took place in Brighton, 11-13 June. The ICLR, who were platinum sponsors of the conference, hosted a delightful party at the Brighton Museum, celebrating our 150th anniversary. Delegates and exhibitors were invited for an… Continue reading about ICLR at #BIALL2015
This week’s roundup of recent legal news and events includes a magna kerfuffle over Magna Carta, transparency in family law and the case of the missing mum, and some truly awful stuff going on in foreign legal climes. Magna Carta wars Octocentenary stirs up jurisprudential ding-dong There are three primary sources of law in this… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 12 June 2015
This week’s lineup of recent legal news and events includes the prevention of pleasure, LIP service for lawyers, and the protection of children. And, for the sake of amusement, a rivalry of rubber ducks. Psychoactive Substances Bill Will it trip the law fantastic or just tread clumsily on our freedoms? The Government would like… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 5 June 2015
This week’s big news at home was the Queen’s Speech, with its promise of laws to come, while abroad the biggest event was the dawn raid detention of seven Fifa executives on an alleged corruption rap. Plus other legal news and events. Human Rights are Left (for the moment) So will British Bill just… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR – 29 May 2015
The ICLR team walked the London Legal Walk. Here are some pictures. Our team was:- Georgina Orde, Susanne Rook, Celia Fox, Scott McGlinchey, Matthew Brotherton We were walking with the Lord Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers to raise funds for the London Legal Support… Continue reading about We walked the walk! Please help support legal advice
