This week’s roundup of legal news includes a rising tide of filth, plus problem solving criminal courts, procedural problem solving civil courts, human rights laws, and a historic view of policing. Plus recent case law and commentary. And ice cream. — Environment Rising tide of filth The Environment Agency’s latest report, Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report 2021, does not water down its criticism of the sector’s (one can only say) shitty adherence to performance targets. Introducing the report, the agency’s chair, Emma Howard Boyd, says:

This week’s roundup of legal news catches up with the state of the nation’s politics, its justice system and other unfinished business. Plus recent case law and commentary. — Politics Collapse of leadership The Prime Minister resigned last week, after days of uncertainty, though he did not actually quit. (He said he would only stay in power until a new Conservative Party leader is appointed.) What happened was that an accelerating succession of ministerial resignations triggered by yet another scandal eventually left him…

This week’s roundup of legal news includes a striking image of barristers, a disputed bill of rights, a supreme restoration of the status quo anti-abortion… plus recent case law and commentary. — Legal Profession Barristers: strike backers strike back The decision by a majority of the members of the Criminal Bar Association to refuse to attend court on a series of days of action in pursuit of better legal aid fees has encountered opposition from the judiciary, in the form of a threatening proclamation from the Lord Chief Justice…

This week’s roundup of legal news includes problems over the protocol, striking barristers, sniping ministers, refugees and criminal corporations. Plus recent case law and commentary. — Legislation NIP in the air Legislation designed to circumvent the problems said to have been created by compliance with the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP), is itself said to be problematic. As Ronan Cormacain explains on the UK Constitutional Law Association blog,

This week’s roundup of legal news includes removal to Rwanda, removal of cladding, an inquisitorial trial in Paris and an adversarial one in Virginia. Plus recent case law and commentary. — Immigration Refugee removal to Rwanda A challenge to the government’s policy of removing refugees who arrive on these shores illegally to Rwanda has failed in the High Court, and the first flight out seems imminent. Mr Justice Swift refused to grant an injunction applied for on behalf of several asylum seekers facing “offshoring” to Rwanda…

This week’s roundup of legal news weighs in with imperial measures, a damn fine party report, a police plan on racism, and a boosted inquiry. Plus recent case law and commentary. — Politics Crown Imperial (measures) The novelist Evelyn Waugh once said the mistake made by the hero of H G Wells’ The Time Machine was in using it to pry into the future. He would have preferred to set it to go Slow Astern and “hover gently back through [the] centuries”.

This week’s roundup of legal news includes access to justice, legal aid, law in cyberspace, and criminal inaction. Plus recent case law and commentary. — Access to justice Social Market Foundation report Advisers stationed at GP surgeries, council offices, libraries, and other convenient locations could help more people get more timely access to civil justice, according to a report from the Social Market Foundation published today. It also recommends that policymakers should

This week’s roundup of legal news includes a princely welcome to parliament, a war of wigs between wags, a war of words over Brexit and a threat of sanctions over Russia. Plus recent case law and commentary. — Parliament Queen’s Speech proposals Though a few days later she was well enough to attend a horse show at Windsor, Her Majesty the Queen missed the state opening of Parliament last week owing to what were described as “mobility issues”. Her place was taken by HRH Prince Charles, accompanied by a crown on a…

This week’s roundup of legal news (back after the Easter break) includes recent legislation and developments in environmental and media law, prisons and courts, plus new case law and commentary. — Legislation Four new justice bills received the Royal Assent on 28 April 2022 — at the close of what has been a somewhat torrid parliamentary session — but none of them have yet been published on the official site managed by the National Archives at www.legislation.gov.uk.