All Law Gazette articles in 7 August 2017 – Page 9
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Opinion
An outgoing judiciary
Steadfast and not sentimental, fearless but restrained: Lord Neuberger’s advice for the judges who will succeed him.
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News
News focus: Jackson's parting shot
Solicitors greeted Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals to extend fixed recoverable costs with some relief. Just don’t expect ministers to take kindly to judicial review caps.
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Feature
Wills and probate: Face to face with online wills
The Law Commission has rekindled the debate on replacing archaic will-making with a digital future.
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News
Our new moral entrepreneurs
I wonder if the demonstrations over the Charlie Gard case, the opposition to Martin Moore-Bick in the Grenfell Tower inquiry and the general attack on the judiciary over the Brexit hearings are the start of what sociologists call a ‘symbolic’ crusade – complete with ‘moral entrepreneurs’. In a symbolic crusade ...
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Feature
Judiciary: On the defensive
Politicians share the blame for creating a moral context in which judges can be ridiculed and vilified.
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Feature
Criminal - statutory changes
The criminal law provisions of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 have been brought substantially into force and with unusual speed. Urgent provisions were brought into force on royal assent on 31 January 2017. These included a redefinition of ‘sexual exploitation’ in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 so as to ...
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News
UK facing UN censure on costly litigation
International body lambasts UK over application of Aarhus Convention.
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Opinion
BOOK REVIEW: The case for the defence
Human Rights and Personal Self-Defense in International Law
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Feature
Born fighter: Jenny Beck
For Jenny Beck, defending people on the margins of society from the depredations of government is a vocation.
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Feature
Competition: Certification and the class action regime
Second-class certification judgment in relation to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 handed down.