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Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7322

22 May 2008
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22 May 2008 / B. Mahendra
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-PARLIAMENT-PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE

Corporate Officer of the House of Commons v The Information Commissioner and others [2008] EWHC 1084 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 217 (May)

22 May 2008 / All England Law Reporters
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Malice in the Hospital

22 May 2008 / B. Mahendra
CONFISCATION ORDER-PROCEEDS OF CRIME-MULTIPLE DEFENDANTS

R v May [2008] UKHL 28, [2008] All ER (D) 169 (May)

22 May 2008 / All England Law Reporters
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Will the government's constitutional reforms make state power more accountable? Mark Ryan reports

22 May 2008 / Mark Ryan
Commissioner Cooke

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22 May 2008
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In her final article on women who have forged significant pathways through our legal landscape, L-J Patterson turns the spotlight on Susanna FitzGerald QC

22 May 2008 / L-j Patterson
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The elevation of associate prosecutors is not the end of the world, says Andrew Keogh

22 May 2008 / Andrew Keogh
Legal aid danger

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22 May 2008
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Increased mobility brings particular security challenges for the legal profession, says Adam Coomber

22 May 2008 / Adam Coomber
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Public Accounts Committee warn of ‘extinction’ risk for legal aid
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
NLJ this week: The insider returns
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
NLJ this week: Drawing the line on contempt
After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
NLJ this week: Stop and search by the numbers
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
NLJ this week: Looking back on the prorogation that never was
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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