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It’s the Queen’s official birthday on Saturday; an event that is celebrated every year with Trooping the Colour. A real spectacle to behold for anyone around Horse Guard’s Parade in the year that would be...

If you are conducting legal research the ability to filter and generate relevant results is very important.  In my experience of working in a technical support environment, search queries are surprisingly more common than you may...

European regulators are investigating major U.S. firms, including Apple and Starbucks, over how these multi-national businesses allocate their tax dollars internationally. If regulators find that Apple received unfair tax breaks in Ireland and Starbucks received...

Whether or not the QC title is still relevant is a discussion that the bar simply seems unable to shake off. When one objection to the system appears to have been adequately handled another one...

Since 2001 the judiciary of England and Wales has been issuing neutral citations to every decided case heard in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court (previously House of Lords), the Judicial Committee of the...

Recently I was reading that Justice Cory Gilmore, of the Ontario Superior Court, may have set precedent when he declared a power to strike provisions from a will because of the deceased person’s racist beliefs,...

Justis Publishing is delighted to announce that you can now access the Jersey Law Reports, Cayman Islands Law Reports and Justis BVI Cases online in an essential new collection that is aimed at offshore practitioners....

I recently read that “it doesn’t matter how many resources you have, if you don’t know how to use them, it will never be enough”. This got me thinking about the importance of knowing how...

In recent years there has been a noticeable rise in the number of big city law firms recruiting criminal practitioners to sit in or alongside their commercial teams. This development has been necessitated by the...

Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II Prime Minister (First Lord of the Treasury): David Cameron (MP) (Conservative) INTRODUCTION The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislature of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It...

What makes case law publications authoritative? That is something you often hear working in the legal publishing industry. Traditionally one may be inclined to answer that the authority of bound and digital publications comes by virtue of their publication...

For many aspiring solicitors the dream is to work for a magic circle or leading city firm. From there, following the successful completion of their training contract they can look to establish a career in...

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree,” said the novelist Michael Crichton. History is as important for lawyers as...

Knowing how to distinguish between “good” and “bad” law is an essential weapon in every law student and lawyer’s arsenal of skills. Cases can be, and indeed often are, complicated. This is not helped by...

Knowledge of treatment types is essential for law students, academics and practitioners. Even if that knowledge is only drawn upon occasionally, it is useful to be aware of the routine every editor goes through in...

Recently it was reported that the Birmingham based law firm, SGH Martineau, has been granted permission by a judge sitting in the High Court to serve an injunction over Twitter, against a far-right organisation that had taken...

Recently it was reported that the Birmingham based law firm, SGH Martineau, has been granted permission by a judge sitting in the High Court to serve an injunction over Twitter, against a far-right organisation that had taken...

There are many ways to learn about the law. For university students they attend lectures and seminars, trawl through textbooks and casebooks, and occasionally trek to the library to sift through the archives of old...

With wealth comes litigation. In this age of globalisation and incredible freedom of movement, we’re seeing a marked increase in the use of international commercial arbitration agreements between wealthy parties, often domiciled in countries far...

Your data in their hands The Government seeks to protect us. Or so they suggest in the new Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill (DRIP). Announced on 10th July, this new Bill is being pushed...

We recently spoke with David Heaton, an Australian graduate studying the BCL at Oxford University and looking to begin a career at the English bar. Following on, we’ve talked to a barrister at a leading...

David Heaton, a graduate from the University of Melbourne, currently studying the BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law) at Oxford University, is one of an increasing number of Australian postgraduates tempted to a career at the...

Should judges decide on cases where they are adjudicating on matters of legal recourse abolished in their country of practice? That is the question I pose about the jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the...

The 2014 award for the Justis Law Librarian of the Year was awarded to Kim Nayyer at the Justis pre-CALL Social Party. We hope to make the award an annual occurrence and, having recovered from...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lowered the “target” level of sugar that should be in our diet, in new recommendations launched this year. In a break from their 2002 Guidelines, which laid out a...

Mario Costeja González is happy. The European Court of Justice has found in his favour, ruling that an internet search engine operator is responsible for its processing of personal data that appear on web pages...

Summertime and the living is easy. Or the air is filled with pupillage application forms, widespread work experience and an extensive history of academic achievement depending on where you’re sat. The advice given to hopefuls...

In England and Wales advocacy is spoken. Arguments are made orally. Yet since Lord Donaldson’s 1982 Practice Note stated that in some cases it “may be desirable to ask for … a skeleton of the...

Lord Donaldson stated in his 1982 Practice Note that in some cases it “may be desirable to ask for … a skeleton of the argument for both parties”. He could not possibly have been aware...

The court structure of the UK is one of the most stable in the world. The court process and the structure of appeals is one with which every law student is familiar (see the diagram...