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<description><![CDATA[Check out the Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition - its website will give you full details of this year's competition (schedule, faqs) as well as details of previous years moots. This includes the moot problem, details of judges and winners, clarifications and photos. You'll compete against mooters from all over the world. The competition is organised and facilitated by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford in collaboration with the International Media Lawyers Association (IMLA). Closing date for registrations is November 30th]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[Banking - Hot Docs] Banking Bill 2007-2008]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This page from the Parliament site offers a breakdown of the key areas of the Bill, explanatory notes, amendments and a timeline of the progress of the Bill on its way to becoming an Act. The Bill establishes for the first time a permanent statutory regime for dealing with failing banks, amends related current legislation and makes new provisions for the governance of the Bank of England. This Bill achieved Royal Assent in Feb 09 but this is a useful place to find out all the background documents.]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[Banking - Hot Docs] FSA Banking Conduct Regime and the Banking Conduct of Business Sourcebook (BCOBS)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Introduced on 1st November 2009, to replace the self-regulation of The Banking Code, this FSA page gives access to the Sourcebook itself (100+ pages) and some useful Q &amp; A's. This Conduct Regime applies to the regulated activity of accepting deposits and covers direct debits, payments, instant access and savings accounts through to unauthorised transactions. See the press release <a href="http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Doing/Regulated/bcobs/index.shtml">here</a> and criticism from The Times <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/article6868224.ece">here</a>.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/banking/hotdocs/1419</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Web links] The English Legal System - Gary Slapper and David Kelly Companion website]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Companion website for Slapper and Kelly's textbook on English Legal System. This top resource comes with a sample chapter and lots of great resources to help you study and revise the subject: flashcards, multiple choice questions, revision tips and sample exam questions. The included Legal Skills Guide covers mooting, legal research, legal presentation amongst others.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/weblinks/1418</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[EU - Blogs] Adjudicating Europe - judicial developments in European law]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Adjudicating Europe is a lively and regularly updated blog with contributions by 'a group of academics and practitioners specialized in EU Law'. With an obvious emphasis on ECJ case law, the blog will nevertheless take a keen interest in decisions of national courts.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/eu/blog/1417</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] CDS Direct: Flying in the face of the evidence - Bridges, L &amp; Cape, E]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bridges and Cape have written a very detailed account of the intriduction of the Criminal Defence Service (CDS)Direct and the Defence Solicitor Call Centre (DSCC) on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at Kings College, London.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1416</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[Careers - Pupillage Info] Pupillage Portal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pupillage Portal the online pupillage application system produced by the Bar Council, allows you to apply to 12 OLPAS chambers. It's sophisticated enough to permit you to personalise the form for each target provider. You can make one clearing application too. You can also check out Chambers information and find mini-pupillages.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/training/pupillage/1415</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[Constitutional - Web Links] UK Supreme Court blog]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Launched just prior to the 'successful delivery' of the UK Supreme Court, this blog covers everything that concerns the highest court of the land. There are interviews, news releases, comments and articles.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/constitutional/weblinks/1413</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[Legal Method - Commentary ] The doctrine of precedent and the provocation defence: a comment on R v James - Elvin, J]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Elvin's piece looks at the debate in R v James over which was the preferred definitive statement on the law of provocation: that in the House of Lords - R v Smith (Morgan James) or Privy Council - AG of Jersey v Holley. A great article for highlighting the significance of the doctrine of precedent. (2006) 69 MLR 819]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/legalmethod/commentary/1412</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[UK Caselaw - All-Rounders] Weekly Law Reports Daily]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Free case summary service from the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, covers updates from House of Lords, Privy Council, Court of Appeal and all divisions of the High Court. Also covers Royal Courts of Justice and European Court of Justice. Archive searchable by subject as well as case details.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/ukcaselaw/allrounders/1411</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] Change of PACE - Zander, M]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Zander looks sceptically at the Home Office's 2007 review of PACE; the consultation paper named 'Modernising Police Powers: Review of PACE 1984'. Zander unpicks the document a little; breaking it down to the problematic parts. 157 NLJ 504]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1410</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] Full steam ahead - Zander, M]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Zander weighs up the Constitutional Affairs Committee's critique of the government's Carter reforms on legal aid, noting that the government's response has been to reject all criticisms and push on. He breaks down the Committee's criticisms and puts alongside the government's response. (2007) 157 NLJ 992]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1409</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] The unmet need: focus on the future - Ryan, E]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ryan is managing director of Co-operative Legal Services, his short piece tells why he is excited by the prospect of the Legal Services Bill. He touches on the public distrust of legal services and of their need to find someone they can trust, despising the 'yellow pages lottery'. (2007) 157 NLJ 134]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1407</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] The Police Reform Act 2002 - Increasing centralisation, maintaining confidence and contracting out crime control - Ormerod, D &amp; Roberts, A]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The authors analyse the changes highlighted in the Police Refom Act 2002, focusing in on its impact on control and structure of police forces, operation of the IPCC and the delegation of police powers to civilians. [2003] Crim LR 141]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1406</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] Forget ADR - think A or D - Evans , A]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Anthony Evans has issues with terminology in this piece; rallying against the ubiquitous use of the term alternative dispute resolution. He ventures that this confuses and implies mediation is necessary in every case. (2003) Civil Justice Quarterly 230]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1405</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] The Constitutional Reform Act 2005: ministers, judges and constitutional change - Lord Windlesham]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lord Windlesham looks at all the elements affected by the soon-to-be Constitutional Reform Act 2005. This includes the office of the Lord Chancellor - its origins as well as why there is opposition to abolishing the role. He also looks at the reasons for the forming of a new department; The Department for Constitutional Affairs. [2005] PL 806]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1404</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] The lamp that shows that freedom lives - is it worth the candle? - Darbyshire, P]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Darbyshire's article questions the 'traditional justifications' she says are used in praise and defence of jurys, arguing that many are conceptually unsound. Of these justifications she includes the Magna Carta, a constitutional right, injection of democracy and defence against state power. [1991] Crim LR 740]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Commentary] The Jubilee line jurors: does their experience strengthen the argument for judge-only trial in long and complex fraud cases - Lloyd-Bostock, S]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This piece offers some comment on whether complex fraud trials should go on minus a jury; the author analyses interviews with 11 of the jury from the Jubilee line fraud trial. Lloyd-Bostock goes on to suggest ways in which those committed to a long trial could find their lot improved. [2007] Crim LR 255]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/commentary/1402</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals. Department for Constitutional Affairs (2004)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This White Paper is about improving public services and improving access to administrative justice and justice in the workplace. It builds on the proposals for reform of Tribunals set out in Sir Andrew Leggatt's report, Tribunals matter, and explores how to improve the delivery of resolution and fairness as part of the public sector reform program.]]></description>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Web links] The Report of the Review of Tribunals - Sir Andrew Leggatt (2001)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this report was to review the delivery of justice through tribunals other than ordinary courts of law, and how disputes are resolved, whether between citizens and the state, or between other parties. The review also examines other administrative and regulatory bodies which make judicial decisions as part of their functions.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/weblinks/1400</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Court-based ADR Initiatives for Non-Family Civil Disputes: the Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal - Lord Chancellor's Department - Hazel Genn (2002)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This report presents an evaluation of the Commercial Court's practice of issuing ADR Orders in selected commercial disputes and a review of the Court of Appeal's mediation scheme. The broad findings of these evaluations are combined with the results of an earlier evaluation of the Central London County Court mediation scheme to draw conclusions about court-based ADR initiatives.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1399</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Confidence and Confidentiality: Improving transparency and privacy in family courts (2006)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Access the consultation paper here, as well as the summary of responses AND a young person's guide to the response paper. The aim of the initial consultation paper is to make the family courts more open and accountable.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1398</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Web links] Case track limits and the claims process for personal injury claims - Department for Constitutional Affairs (2007)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This consultation paper is split into two parts; the first dealing with the case management track limits (reviewing and offering proposals for progression). The second offers some potential proposals to speed up the claims process for personal injury claims.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/weblinks/1397</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Access to Justice. Department for Constitutional Affairs, Lord Woolf (1996)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This report looks at various areas relating to access to justice, including case management, rules of court and procedure and evidence. Special areas to come under review include medical negligence, multi-party actions and the Crown Office List. Recommendations are made regarding areas such as fast-track, sanctions, pre-action protocols, expert evidence and appeals, amongst other issues.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1396</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Web links] Further findings: a continuing evaluation of the civil justice reforms. Lord Chancellor's Department (2002)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The aim of this paper is to present further findings on the effects of the Civil Justice Reforms which were introduced in April 1999, implementing many of the recommendations in Lord Woolf's final report Access to Justice. Early findings were presented in the paper Emerging Findings published in 2001. This paper builds on that evidence and includes some additional information.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/weblinks/1395</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Emerging Findings: an early evaluation of the Civil Justice Reforms. Lord Chancellor's Department (2001)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This paper presents the effects of the Civil Procedure Rules introduced in 1999, by analysing for example the number of claims issued, the effect of pre-action protocols, the time between issue and hearing, then number of appeals. It also looks at the effect of Part 36 and cases using Alternative Dispute Resolution.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1394</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Lay and Judicial Perspectives on the Expansion of the Small Claims Regime. Lord Chancellor's Department. J. Baldwin (2002)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In this report, Baldwin considers the consequences of the rise in the small claims limit from &pound;3,000 to &pound;5,000 as seen from the perspective of litigants and district judges. A sample of small claims litigants was interviewed to determine whether they were satisfied with what happened in their cases and a sample of district judges were also interviewed to find out what they have made of the expansion of small claims.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1393</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[English Legal System - Reports] Code for Crown Prosecutors]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Access the Code under the Legal Guidance section.]]></description>
<guid>http://lawbore.net/els/reports/1392</guid>
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<item><title><![CDATA[[Criminal - Hot Docs] CPS Consultation on Assisted Suicide]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Keith Starmer QC, the country's top prosecutor has been forced to set out guidelines indicating when people who assist suicide would face court. Debbie Purdy, an MS sufferer, has forced this issue through her lengthy court battle to make the law clear. Read Starmer's interim policy and contribute to the consultation here.]]></description>
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