Tag: house of lords

Justice and Home Affairs Committee warns legislation is failing to keep pace with tech

Cheeky bit of Liversidge v Anderson

In the wake of that Lord Kilclooney 'Indian' tweet, mature law student Laurence Cooper casts a critical eye over parliamentary standards

Lord Lester has always denied the allegations

Lord Lester described the allegations as 'completely untrue'

Top judge also shares her difficulty making sense of EU court judgments

House of Lords’ committee ‘seriously concerned’

Students’ purple books about to get thinner?

Lords Pannick and Keen did not see eye to eye

Lawyers question whether his outburst was unprecedented

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC tells Tories to ‘urgently’ adopt interim measures to help stop this

Lord Low of Dalston questioned whether the new vocational training regime would have a negative impact on law schools

But was he the only lawyer to defy the House of Commons?

They were particularly excited when the ex-deputy president of the Supreme Court made an appearance

The threat of a post-Brexit ‘human rights crisis’ looms

Government’s controversial university bill has stormy ride through upper house

There was also a lot of talk about Henry VIII clauses and Acquis Communautaire

She chairs the House of Lords’ EU Justice committee, and she thinks we’re living through “an ugly period”

Posh bible Debrett’s reveals its top 20 lawyers

The legislature is not broken but could be a lot better

One said this nonsense wasn’t doing his blood pressure any good