Legal Profession
News, analysis, comment and updates from ICLR's case law and UK legislation platform
Our Assistant Editor, Giovanni D’Avola, explains the problem with unreliable citations, whether generated by AI or otherwise. … Continue reading about The Curious Case of the Cases That Were Not
From today, judges and practitioners in the Planning Court should start using the new edition of our consolidated collection of Planning Cases. … Continue reading about Leading Planning Cases: second edition goes ‘live’
Find out about the annual top-up pupillage funding award from ICLR … Continue reading about ICLR Pupillage Award 2025: Apply Now
Congratulations to Emma Meadows, winner of the ICLR Pupillage Award 2024… Continue reading about ICLR Pupillage Award: the 2024 winner
An introductory guide to the sources of law and how you can find out more on the ICLR website… Continue reading about New (law) students: what is case law and how to find it
An update on the publication of judgments… Continue reading about Changes to Neutral Citations for Family Court and Court of Protection
A welcome development has been BAILII’s new collection of judicial speeches, as Paul Magrath explains… Continue reading about Judicial speeches
In this guest post, Scott Wortley recounts the history of the statute according to which all QCs are automatically re-styled KCs (or vice versa) upon the accession of a monarch of different sex.… Continue reading about Why did Queen’s Counsel automatically become King’s Counsel? Parliament and the Demise of the Crown Act 1901
In this guest post Katrina Crossley, Chief Executive of the ILBF, describes why the charity was set up and how it works. (Reproduced with kind permission from the BIALL newsletter.)… Continue reading about International Law Book Facility (ILBF)
Elijah Granet reflects on the long association of the Crown and the law, and looks back (and forward) to what happens when a new king or queen takes over… Continue reading about Crown and court, continuity and change: the implications of a monarch’s accession for the legal system
