by sandydutczak | May 21, 2021 | General, Legal News
Many more ‘spying cops’ without proper controls By Tim Baldwin, barrister at Garden Court Chambers The CHIS Act is an Act of Parliament sponsored by the Home Office which will make provisions for and authorise criminal conduct in the course of, or in connection...
by sandydutczak | May 12, 2021 | General, IALS, Legal News, Research
Dr. Daniele D’Alvia (Associate Research Fellow in Financial Regulation at IALS and Teaching Fellow in Banking and Finance Law at CCLS – QMUL); and Prof. Milos Vulanovic (Professor in Finance at EDHEC Business School Paris) On 3 March 2021, Lord Jonathan Hill’s review...
by sandydutczak | May 10, 2021 | Legal News
This is the first in a series of short blogs about important dates in the legal calendar. We launch the series with a post in memory of Dr Ivy Williams who was the first woman to be called to the English Bar on 10 May 1922. Dr Williams scored 475 in her bar finals, a...
by sandydutczak | Mar 24, 2021 | Archives, IALS, Legal News, Research
Mikołaj Barczentewicz (@MBarczentewicz), Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey This post introduces results of an empirical study available in full on courts.barczentewicz.com During the live television coverage of the Supreme Court hearings in Miller (No 1),...
by Lindsey Caffin | Mar 12, 2021 | General, Legal News
By Paul Marshall and Stephen Mason. On 10 March 2021, Mr Darren Jones MP, Chair of the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee, (also chair of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence https://instituteofai.org/) moved a Parliamentary debate that was...
by sandydutczak | Mar 5, 2021 | General, IALS, Library, Publications
International Women’s Day 2021 IALS Reading List International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. IWD has occurred for well over a century with the first gathering held in 1911; see...
by Lindsey Caffin | Dec 16, 2020 | General, Legal News, Publications
By Stephen Mason, Barrister and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. In August 2020, Alex Chalk MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, invited Paul Marshall, Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers,...