Robert Shiels

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The public and lawyers were lucky to have the consistent services of legislation.gov.uk during the pandemic, and perhaps more importantly, the waves of statutory instruments (approximately 850) required to manage events as they unfolded by the day.

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The many, and systematically horrible, events in the southern states of America over many years in the middle of the last century are described in Margaret Burnham’s new book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. The phrase ‘Jim Crow’ is an American shorthand for

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Photographic images, still and moving, are now accepted universally as an essential part of litigation. Images of a crime scene or the locus of an industrial accident, and injuries to a complainer or a pursuer assist greatly with an understanding of essential issues and the discovery of core facts f

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The bland reference in many books to ‘lawyers’ may understate seriously the exact nature of the work done in practice. Individual histories of firms and individuals provide an insight as to the formation of firms, their longevity and the work of the solicitors and their staff. Several di

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