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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 22 July 2024

This week’s roundup includes public order, miscarriages of justice, war crimes, and legal education. Plus bills galore, and some new case law and commentary. https://www.iclr.co.uk/blog/weekly-notes/weekly-notes-legal-news-from-iclr-22-july-2024/

ICLR is in Chicago for

ICLR has made its way to Chicago for the annual American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference. The windy city is hosting the annual conference for the second time in ten years at the Hyatt Regency overlooking the amazing Chicago River.

If you’re there and want to hear about the latest AI developments put in place in conjunction with our Canadian partners, Jurisage, or pick up of our famous ICLR notebooks, please stop on by at booth 206.

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 15 July 2024

This week’s roundup includes open justice, open government, the rule of law, and press freedom. Plus recent case law and commentary.

New law officers sworn in

Today the new Law Officers, Richard Hermer KC as Attorney General and Sarah Sackman MP as Solicitor General (both from Matrix Chambers), swore an oath, alongside the new Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood MP, to respect the rule of law and serve the King. This is apparently the first time this ancient oath has committed the Law Officers to uphold the rule of law. Mahmood swore her oath as Lord Chancellor on the Qur’an, as Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill CJ welcomed her into the first all-female partnership to lead the justice system.

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 15 July 2024 - ICLR This week’s roundup includes open justice, open government, the rule of law, and press freedom. Plus recent case law and commentary.... Continue reading

AI Case Summaries on ICLR.4

ICLR have partnered with Canadian law tech developer Jurisage Group and our long time tech partners 67 Bricks to provide natural language summaries of unreported judgments.

The summaries are created by a customised large language model (LLM) using artificial intelligence, responding to specially designed prompts.

The AI summaries offer a brief overview of cases to help ICLR.4 subscribers to sift the results from either a conventional case search or the similar cases suggested by our AI-driven Case Genie tool.

The summaries are around 100 words long and are designed to provide a quick run-down of what the case is about, who was involved, and what it decided. Each summary is accompanied by a list of the key legal issues in the case.

Not all cases will be summarised in this way. Where a case has been reported in one of ICLR’s Law Reports or another indexed series, there will be catchwords available to indicate the subject matter of the case. The purpose of the Jurisage summaries is to provide some indication of the subject matter of unreported cases. If and when such a case is reported, the AI summary will be replaced by the indexed catchwords.

The Jurisage summaries will only be accessible to paying subscribers of ICLR.4 and are intended to assist them in selecting cases for research. They are not a headnote and should not be quoted or cited in oral or written submissions.

Find out more: https://www.iclr.co.uk/products/iclr-4/ai-case-summaries-on-iclr-4/

Changes to Neutral Citations for Family Court and Court of Protection
An update on the publication of judgments. Explainer on our blog
https://www.iclr.co.uk/blog/legal-profession/changes-to-neutral-citations-for-family-court-and-court-of-protection/

Government hit with judicial review after excluding onshore wind from energy policy

Government hit with judicial review after excluding onshore wind from energy policy Government hit with judicial review after excluding onshore wind from energy policy June 25, 2024 Tweet Print Email The High Court has granted the Good Law Project permission to challenge the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's decision to exclude onshore wind from its policy on energy inf...

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Come meet the ICLR team at the CALL conference!

#CALL/ACBD 2024 - Montreal, here we come! - ICLR Team ICLR will be attending this year’s conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD) in Montreal, Quebec.... Continue reading

Supreme Court decision defines scope of EIA around fossil fuel ’indirect effects’

Supreme Court decision defines scope of EIA around fossil fuel ’indirect effects’ When deciding whether to grant planning consent for development, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should consider the downstream, indirect greenhouse gas emissions effects of the development in some cases, the UK Supreme Court has ruled, demonstrating a significant development for environme...

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Upper Tribunal provides clarity on interpretation of double tax treaty provisions

Upper Tribunal provides clarity on interpretation of double tax treaty provisions A recent UK Upper Tribunal decision reaffirms the principles governing the application of double tax conventions and provides clarity on the interpretation of treaty provisions aimed at preventing tax avoidance, an expert has said.

The meaning of 'deliberately absent'

The meaning of 'deliberately absent' Extradition.

Risk-taking, best interests and health and welfare deputies

Risk-taking, best interests and health and welfare deputies AB v CD [2024] EWCOP 32 concerned the best interests of a 27 year old man with a moderate learning disability, and visual and hearing impairments. At heart, it was a dispute between his mother, who…

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Come over and meet Paul Hastings and Paul Magrath at the ICLR stand at the 42nd IALL conference in Oslo, Norway!

Prosecution bail appeals – what could possibly go wrong?

Prosecution bail appeals – what could possibly go wrong? - Mountford Chambers - London Barristers Chambers Grace Khaile considers two recent High Court judgments on the procedure of prosecution appeals against bail.

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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 10th June 2024 - latest roundup from on our blog

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 10 June 2024 - ICLR This week’s roundup includes judiciary, courts, crime and ethics. Plus recent case law and commentary.... Continue reading

Exciting news! ICLR have partnered with Canadian law tech developer Jurisage Group and our long time tech partners 67 Bricks to provide natural language summaries of unreported judgments.

AI Case Summaries on ICLR.4 - ICLR Powered by ICLR have partnered with Canadian law tech developer Jurisage to provide natural language summaries of unreported judgments. The summaries are created by a customised large language model (LLM) using artificial intelligence, responding to specially designed prompts. The AI summaries offer...

Judge hands down ruling on effect of withdrawal agreement on homeless applicants who are former EU nationals

Judge hands down ruling on effect of withdrawal agreement on homeless applicants who are former EU nationals Judge hands down ruling on effect of withdrawal agreement on homeless applicants who are former EU nationals June 5, 2024 Tweet Print Email A Slovakian national has won a case against the London Borough of Islington over whether his status under agreements between the UK and the European Union entit...

39 Essex Chambers June 2024 Mental Capacity Report

39 Essex Chambers June 2024 Mental Capacity Report The June 2024 Mental Capacity Report is now out. Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: when no option is a good one, snapshots from the front…

Suitability, reports in Family proceedings, and termination of existing accommodation

Suitability, reports in Family proceedings, and termination of existing accommodation - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment Querino v Cambridge City Council (Rev1) (2024) EWCA Civ 314 We’re a bit late to this one. The backlog is growing as I’ve had other things to do, but here it is. This was a second appeal to the court of appeal from a s.204 appeal of a decision on suitability of accommodation offered to […]

UK landlord ordered to pay compensation for misrepresentation under LTA 1954

UK landlord ordered to pay compensation for misrepresentation under LTA 1954 The High Court in England recently handed down a judgment emphasising the importance of landlords not contriving development schemes to regain possession of premises in order to try to circumvent the statutory grounds of opposition to renewal of business tenancies under the 1954 Act, an expert has s...

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Crime and punishment: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

Crime and punishment: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts The coronavirus pandemic had a huge effect on the justice system, but what else can the data show us?

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The CEO and Secretary - ICLR   Role summary The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) is inviting applications for the post of CEO and Secretary. The successful candidate will lead the organisation in an exciting time in publishing, driving strategic initiatives and embracing technological advancem...

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 13th May 2024 - latest roundup from on our blog

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 13 May 2024 - ICLR This week’s roundup includes open justice, closed justice, court security, discrimination, and freedom of expression. Plus recent case law and commentary.... Continue reading

A lonely island in the LIBOR scandal

A lonely island in the LIBOR scandal Financial crime.

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 6th May 2024 - latest roundup from on our blog

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 6 May 2024 - ICLR This week’s roundup of legal news includes politics, legislation on Rwanda and Slapps, media regulation and Post Office lawyers in the frame. Plus recent case law and commentary.... Continue reading