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Law in 101 words

05 August 2022
Issue: 7990 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary, by Roderick Ramage
Congratulations NLJ!

The Law Journal, founded in 1822, and The Law Times, 1843, were amalgamated in 1965 as The New Law Journal. Congratulations on your bicentenary, spanning developments in the law from the Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822 to the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. My own thanks are that your editor in 1970 took a chance and published Will or Shall, which was my first publication ever anywhere, he and his successors published my occasional articles and, in 2008, your present editor took another chance, accepting my 101-word snippets for the back page, bestowing on them the title Reduced Law Dictionary.


Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022

The minister must establish the Animal Sentience Committee, with power, when any government policy is formulated or implemented, to report ‘whether, or to what extent, the government is having, or has had, all due regard to the ways in which the policy might have an adverse effect on the welfare of animals as

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NEWS
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
In this week's NLJ, Robert Hargreaves and Lily Johnston of York St John University examine the Employment Rights Bill 2024–25, which abolishes the two-year qualifying period for unfair-dismissal claims
Writing in NLJ this week, Manvir Kaur Grewal of Corker Binning analyses the collapse of R v Óg Ó hAnnaidh, where a terrorism charge failed because prosecutors lacked statutory consent. The case, she argues, highlights how procedural safeguards—time limits, consent requirements and institutional checks—define lawful state power
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