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Written with Richard Ground KC and Dr Ashley Bowes, the 2nd edition of Leading Planning Cases highlights cases most cited in the Planning Court.

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ICLR Pupillage Award: 2025 Winners - ICLR Congratulations to our two joint winners of this year's award... Continue reading about ICLR Pupillage Award: 2025 Winners

ICLR is pleased to announce that this year’s Pupillage Award has been won by two applicants, Victoria Ludwig and Oliver Field, each of whom will receive the full prize amount.

Read more about the winners in our blog review:

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ICLR's Reportability Criteria: Learn more about how our law reporters decide whether or not a case will be reported by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales:
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We are hiring!

ICLR is looking for a qualified barrister/solicitor to strengthen the reporter team as a Law Reporter. This role provides the core ICLR value-add and involves monitoring cases, assessing judgments for reportability and more.

Review the job and apply today:
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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 6 October 2025 - ICLR We kick off the new legal year with a roundup of what's been going on over the long vacation. New appointments, old problems, and plenty of case law and commentary.... Continue reading about Weekly No...

Our latest blog post kicks off the new legal year and rounds up events over the long vacation:

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Smoke, spirits and statute - ICLR In this guest post James Hickman considers the trial of Helen Duncan and provides a brief history of English witchcraft laws... Continue reading about Smoke, spirits and statute

Ever wonder about the intersection between witchcraft and the UK legal system? Our desk editor James Hickman reviews the trial of Helen Duncan in 1944: www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

A child’s age and understanding in 1925 - ICLR David Burrows concludes his series on the rules of precedent and how courts take account of children’s views in relation to their decisions.... Continue reading about A child’s age and understanding i...

Our guest contributor @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social continues his series on the rules of precedent in this latest blog post:
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The Epping Forest hotel case on appeal: finding a balance - ICLR In a follow-up post Graeme Johnston considers the Court of Appeal's decision to set aside the injunction preventing the Bell Hotel being used to house asylum seekers... Continue reading

Read Graeme Johnston's update on the recent Court of Appeal decision in the Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Ltd case: www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

Balancing national policy against local policy and protest: the Epping Forest asylum hotel case - ICLR In this guest post Graeme Johnston comments on the recent High Court judgment temporarily preventing the Bell Hotel being used to house asylum seekers ... Continue reading

Graeme Johnston (CEO of Juralio, previous partner at Herbert Smith) contributed this blog post where he comments on the High Court judgment temporarily preventing the Bell Hotel being used to house asylum seekers and reflects on the history of asylum accommodation: www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

Digital Marketing and Finance Administrative Assistant - London (Central) job with ICLR | 9771205 The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) is looking for a marketing and admin professional to work in its admin team.

We're recruiting!

ICLR is looking for a Digital Marketing and Finance Administrative Assistant to join the admin team. This position is ideal for someone looking to develop their digital marketing and subscriptions management skills.

Apply today: jobs.theguardian.com/job/9771205/...

Review: Reliable Sources of Legal Information for Litigants In Person, by Sally McLaren - ICLR We review the revised edition of an essential sourcebook of information for anyone navigating the legal system without a lawyer, and a service for lawyers in search of good citations ... Continue read...

Sally McLaren, the deputy librarian at Lincoln’s Inn, has put together an essential sourcebook of information for anyone navigating the legal system without a lawyer:
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Insolvency and family property: can the twain meet? - ICLR What happens when a case involves conflicting 'silos' of law? David Burrows untangles the wires. ... Continue reading

What happens when a case involves conflicting ‘silos’ of law? @dbfamilylaw.bsky.social untangles the wires:
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'Hackers' threaten to publish Legal Aid Agency records Authenticity of posts on new Telegram channel not possible to verify.

Read the latest developments as a group claiming to be hackers who stole more than two million records from the Legal Aid Agency has threatened to publish the information unless one of their members is "freed":

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Are you starting your law degree in the upcoming term? Brush up on your knowledge of the English legal system ahead of your first seminars:

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Comments on the MOD Afghan data leak superinjunction case - ICLR We examine some of the issues raised by the recent case involving the first superinjunction to have been granted 'contra mundum'... Continue reading

Read our Head of Product Development and Online Content's comments on the MOD Afghan data leak superinjunction case, which is said to have put up to 100,000 people at grave risk of harm:
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ICLR at #AALL2025 in Portland - ICLR This year the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) held its Annual Meeting & Conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon on 19-22 July. This year’s conference theme was Be B...

Team ICLR were in attendance at this year's hashtag#AALL conference.

Read our write up of the event and get in touch if you have any unanswered questions:
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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 14 July 2025 - ICLR This week’s roundup of legal news includes inquiry reports on the Post Office IT scandal, the criminal courts, fraud, and social media misinformation. Plus recent case law and commentary.... Continue ...

Access legal news from the last week in ICLR's Round Up covering:
- The Post Office IT Scandal
- Part 1 of The Independent Review of the Criminal Courts
- Social media misinformation and harmful algorithms

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The Curious Case of the Cases That Were Not - ICLR Our Assistant Editor, Giovanni D'Avola, explains the problem with unreliable citations, whether generated by AI or otherwise. ... Continue reading

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ICLR in numbers - see what makes a case reportable by clicking here - www.iclr.co.uk/reportability/

ICLR: gatekeepers of the common law - Internet for Lawyers Newsletter Finding the right case has never been more important but the sheer volume of published judgments, while beneficial in terms of open justice, only makes it

New on @infolaw.co.uk
ICLR: gatekeepers of the common law
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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 5 May 2025 - ICLR This week’s roundup includes water regulation, legal professions, courts, and conscientious objectors. Plus recent case law and commentary.... Continue reading

Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 5 May 2025 - compiled by @maggotlaw.bsky.social as usual.
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Always keep a-hold of Nurse: the Lion, the Child, and the Law suit - ICLR We discuss an old case that goes from bad to verse.... Continue reading

Always keep a-hold of Nurse: the Lion, the Child, and the Law suit - in which @maggotlaw.bsky.social discusses an old case that goes from bad to verse.
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ICLR pupillage award is now open for applications - if you are going to start (or have started) pupillage in 2025 and will earn less than £37,500 inside London (£32,500 outside) in your 1st year then you can apply for the award of £13,000 -

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Can the Supreme Court depart from its previous decisions?
In the first of a series of linked posts, David Burrows considers the rules of precedent and to what extent the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal are bound by their own previous decisions. www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

Notable cases of 2024 - Crime - In the fourth of our survey of top new cases from last year, reporter Philip Ridd comments on a case about a criminal defendant’s fitness to plead.
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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 25 February 2025 - ICLR This week’s roundup of legal news includes international law, the judiciary, crime, assisted dying and other aspects of law reform. Plus recent case law and commentary and, to round it off, a royal fl...

Latest Weekly Notes from ICLR -

This week’s roundup of legal news includes international law, the judiciary, crime, assisted dying and other aspects of law reform. Plus recent case law and commentary and, to round it off, a royal flush.
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Notable Cases of 2024: Public law - ICLR In the first of our survey of top new cases from last year, reporter Catherine May comments on a case about national security. ... Continue reading

Notable cases of 2024: Reporter Catherine May outlines the importance of R (L1T FM Holdings UK Ltd) v Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet Office [2024] EWHC 2963 (Admin), putting into practice the National Security and Investment Act 2021
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Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 27 January 2025 - ICLR This week’s roundup of legal news includes crime and its prevention, judges and their anonymity, princes and the press, prisons and penalties, and miscarriages of justice. Plus recent case law and com...

Latest Weekly Notes from @iclr.bsky.social

This week’s roundup of legal news includes crime and its prevention, judges and their anonymity, princes and the press, prisons and penalties, and miscarriages of justice. Plus recent case law and commentary.

www.iclr.co.uk/blog/weekly-...

Latest Weekly Notes from ICLR - Our first roundup of the Hilary Term includes open justice, courts, inquiries, and a new boss. Plus recent case law and commentary.

This is a fantastic project. We were so impressed by the students' hard work and dedication, and some of them spoke with such confidence and aplomb - definitely future KC or MP material! Proud to support.