Law in Practice

Dr Liora Lazarus looks at the status and justification of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s decision on Assange  

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) decision on Assange was initially met with incredulity from British officials, legal academics and the international press, who called it ‘ridiculous', ‘ludicrous’ and ‘unjustified’.  

Lord Justice Briggs addresses the Bar on the implications arising from his civil courts review 

The ‘Calais refugee judgment’, an update on the Lawyers Refugee Initiative and volunteers report from the ‘Jungle’  

Catriona Murdoch makes the case for an in-country approach to tackling the illegal migration trade and reports on the challenges faced in Ethiopia  

Since January 2015, 1,084,625 migrants, including asylum seekers, are reported to have arrived in Europe, of which 1,048,268 arrived by sea.  

Mark Mulholland QC and Heather Phillips consider the lessons learned from the UK’s first DPA – and find that early reporting and a culture of compliance should be at the fore when the commercial long-term future of an organisation is at stake  

A new mechanism of deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) was introduced in February 2014 by s 45 and Sch 17 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (CCA 2013), whereby an agreement may be reached between a designated prosecutor and an organisation facing prosecution for certain economic or financial offences.  

Does Latin still have a place in the modern judgment? Mr Justice McCloskey considers the patterns, and challenges, of judgment-writing in the common law system  

The Latin legal term curia advisari vult  (abbreviation cur adv vult ), meaning ‘the court wishes to consider the matter’ (literally ‘to be advised’), is familiar to most in the UK legal system and appears in countless thousands of law reports.  

Could depositions be an effective tool in the fight against knife crime and the silence of gang culture, ask Narita Bahra and Sam Main  

Envisage a gangland murder shortly after midnight on a quiet London street when the only witnesses to the crime are other gang members: who will tell us what happened?  

Robin Griffith-Jones explores whether religious convictions should still play a part in the debate on assisted dying  

'Oh that the Everlasting had not fixed, His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!' Hamlet I.2.131-2
  

Paramjit Ahluwalia examines the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and asks whether it will work to abolish today’s trade in human capital  

Presenting his first Abolitionist Bill to the House of Commons in 1789, William Wilberforce concluded his speech with the words: ‘Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say that you did not know.’ 

Peter Grieves-Smith and Sarah Wood report on the use of iPads as jury bundles in a recent fraud trial and examine whether this is the next stage in the evolution of our courts