The ICLR seventh annual lecture looks pretty good this year: How the common law gets made: Hedley Byrne and other cautionary tales (link goes to pdf)
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Barbara Gordon
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Barbara Gordon
The ban on ‘extreme’ internet porn has been made law.
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jennielaw
Apparently, the laws of Oregon are copyrighted, and can’t be published…
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neilstewart
The High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office was wrong to end its investigation into BAE over an allegedly corrupt arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
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jennielaw
Damn, those law makers thwarting the rights of toddlers to marry!!!
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iOverlord
Government are consulting on whether UK should opt-in to ‘Rome I’ (at last). Rome I Regulation covers the law applicable to contractual obligations, and in particular which law applies if a dispute arises over a contract made between people or businesses from different countries in the EU.
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lo-fi
Are mix tape sites on solid legal ground? Article from Webware.
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iOverlord
Radio Netherlands Worldwide is launching a new website on international law: This English-language site intends to reach an international audience including lawyers, journalists, politicians and all those involved. Radio Netherlands Worldwide wants the site to make international law accessible to a broader audience.
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jenenifer
US gov’t sells exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West? Whilst this wouldn’t surprise me, it’s a really, really bad idea if it’s true… Freedom of information, anyone?
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jennielaw
Full details of the McCartney divorce decision will be made public, as Heather Mills has lost her appeal to keep the details confidential.
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iOverlord
Justis have launched a weekly legal news roundup on the Justis and JustCite sites. “Complementing our own stories, the free service provides summaries and links to a range of legal news from around the world, covering the full spectrum from quirky light relief to serious journalism.” Hmm, sounds more promising than it actually is really. Not sure I’d have bothered.
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jennielaw
Florida Senate has passed a Bill requiring students to wear their pants / trousers up at their waist.
Mainly worth a read to see how many bad jokes the reporter has managed to squeeze in!
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iOverlord
Just got facebook message from the guy behind preCydent. First saw this a few weeks back, a US based legal search tool. Has some promise, and love the youtube demo, esp about 4 mins in when he slates Westlaw and Lexis for relevance. Class.
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neilstewart
Does anyone have any opinions on Burrows (ed.) “English Private Law”- one of our students has expressed surprise we don’t hold it- is it as vital as the likes of Wildy claim?
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jennielaw
The UK Government has announced plans that would mean ISPs could be held responsible for illegal downloading by their customers.
Consultation to start in the Spring.
*edited cos I forgot to say it was the UK Gov :)*
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jennielaw
Sark has voted to become a democracy, after pressure to conform to EU Human Rights laws.
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jennielaw
Lord Falconer wants news stories written about cases before they go to trial removed from archives, to prevent them influencing the outcome of the case.
Not quite sure that I can see it working…and how do you stop news sites hosted outside the country from writing what they want? As it is, when you want to find out who’s been up to what naughtiness, and the courts have banned the info here, you just go looking on international sites...
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lo-fi
This is really very cool - free law project
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AbsTracked
A friend of mine just pointed out US v Charles Thomas Allen, II, a 6th Circ. Ct. of Appeals case decided 2/5/08. It’s about “college buddies (19-20 years old) who hatched a plan to steal rare books from the special collections library at Transylvania University (Lexington, KY) and sell them at auction in New York City.”
