100 Best Legal Blogs, UK & Ireland

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  • Andrew Hogan's blog on legal costs provides information and posts on this topic. Andrew is a barrister who has advised upon and argued costs cases in the County Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, as well as other tribunals including the Lands Tribunal. He is based at Ropewalk Chambers in Nottingham but travels widely.

  • April King, with offices throughout the East and West Midlands, covers topics relating to Family Law, include estates law, wills, trusts, lasting powers of attorney, divorce, children etc. The blog is well produced with frequent posts.

  • Art Law London is a blog from Paul Howcroft, of solicitors firm Fladgate LLP. The blog covers English legal developments relevant to the art world.

  • Austin Lafferty Blog comes from Austin Lafferty's solicitors and estate agents in Glasgow & East Kilbride (and particularly from Austin Lafferty himself) discussing legal issues relevant to businesses and individuals in Glasgow, East Kilbride and beyond.

  • Azrights News and Media covers Intellectual Property, Internet, Technology, Online Business law, Litigation, Branding and all things Digital. The blog is edited by Shireen Smith, the founder of Azrights. People who will find this blog useful range from one-person start ups to established international tech PLCs, as well as all those interested in business and entrepreneurship, internet and technology and intellectual property and media law.

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  • BabyBarista is a fictional account of a junior barrister practising at the English Bar along with other associated characters. The stories he tells appeared on The Times online for three years and The Guardian online for two years and also led to him getting two book deals with Harry Potter’s publisher Bloomsbury: Law and Disorder and Law and Peace. BabyBarista is written by Tim Kevan who practised at the Bar for ten years. There are great cartoons by Alex Williams.

  • Barrister Bard comes from David Osborne, a successful and experienced barrister. His fields of expertise range from crime, prison law and personal injury, to family and matrimonial law. He is also an acknowledged authority on human rights. He is also a bestselling author and public speaker. His aim in writing the blog to comment on topical legal issues - sometimes humorously, but usually with a serious message.

  • Binary Law is Nick Holmes's blog on issues of legal information: how it is authored, edited, managed, processed and published; who uses it, why and what for; its syntax and semantics. Nick Holmes is a publishing consultant specialising in the UK legal sector and is Managing Director of infolaw. infolaw offers a range of e-publishing services, including blog setup, configuration and advice, tailored to requirements. Nick has set up a section on the infolaw site to catalogue all UK law blogs; you can find this here.

  • Bloody relations is a blog from barrister Jacqui Gilliatt about UK family law. The description of the blog is "Where there's a relative there's a bloody good argument to be had". The blog is associated with Jacqui's chambers website 4 Brick Court where there are a large number of articles on family law and a monthly "update" on family law with summaries of recent cases, articles etc.

  • Breens blog comes from Breens, Solicitors of Southport and Waterloo. The blog covers topics of general interest to individuals and families eg wills, ending a tenancy early, what it means to die intestate, accidents (including bicying accidents), death and taxes, buying a seond (holiday) home and other practical topics.

  • Building the Circular Economy comes from barrister Jeremy Barnett, a fraud barrister representing companies (large and small) and individuals in Regulatory and Disciplinary cases. The blog is about designing stuff to 'disassemble' rather than disposal and preventing uncessary use of energy. Some people call it 'cradle to cradle' manufacturing, or C2C, the aim is to encourage reuse of materials or using biodegradable ingrediants rather than landfill. He also covers climate change, future internet and data protection and solicitors and accountants disciplinary work. The overall theme of the blog is regulatory law in the modern world.

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  • Carruthers Law provides frequent news and articles on cases and legal developments in Defamation, Litigation, Commercial and Negligence as well as guides for clients on the Litigation process.

  • Clutton Cox host three blogs on their web site on different aspects of conveyancing, housing, estate agency, landlord and tenance, probate and wills.

  • Conscious Solutions Blog comes from a lively firm in legal IT/marketing headed by David Gilroy called Conscious Solutions. The blog is run as a team with posts from different members of the company on various topics from SEO to social media to technical issues - and always up to date.

  • Contact Law Legal Blog covers family law, employment rights, property purchases, landlord and tenancy disputes, small business issues and motoring offences. The blog mostly covers legal issues in the UK, but also extends to important EU and international legal topics.

  • Corporate Law and Governance is a blog from Robert Goddard of Aston Business School Birmingham covering news from the UK and beyond concerning corporate law and governance. These areas are broadly defined to include capital market regulation, financial reporting and the legal environment in which companies (of all sizes) operate.

  • Cousins Business Law Blog comes from Gary Cousins of commercial solicitors Cousins Business Law. It is designed to inform people quickly and in plain English on legal issues that can help their business. The blog also includes the firm's thoughts on topical legal and business issues.

  • Curated Media's blog provides expert tips on how solicitors can attract and convert more clients online through effective content marketing. There are regular posts on current topics, well presented and easy to read.

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  • DavidsonMorris immigration blog is very comprehensive and informative in covering all aspects of UK immigration law with real time updates on changes to legislation, as well as keeping an eye on global immigration.

  • Divorce Family Toolkit is a blog from Alan Larkin of Family Law Partners in Brighton - "The inside track for those struggling with divorce finance issues". As well as postings on topics of family law finance, the blog contains a description of the legal terms used in family law, lots of information on the dreaded Form E, and links to other useful sites related to Family Law and (particularly) the financial aspects of Divorce. There is now a useful (free) facility The Child Maintenance Service’s child maintenance calculator. This allows parents to predict what level of child maintenance may be requested if the Child Maintenance Service is involved, based on the rules introduced by the Child Maintenance Service on 29th July 2013. It uses a gross income model and applies different rates (or a combination of rates) in 5 bands. The calculator is free to use and can be used directly by parents or by their lawyers or mediators. It can be accessed by computer or through mobile devices. There is an official calculator provided by the Government but this does not give enough detail and does not lend itself to allowing the results to be easily communicated (by email for instance) to a co-parent. The lack of transparency in the calculation tends to aggravate the mistrust that exists immediately after separation.

  • Divorce Solicitor Blog is a very lively new blog from Lynne Bastow, of Bastows Divorce Solicitors. She poses questions like "Can I date now that we've started divorce proceedings?" (The answer most often is: "No!"). There are lots of lively stories and good photos to go with the stories (many peoples' blogs are just text based - very boring to look at).

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  • ECHR blog provides commentary on cases and issues at the ECHR. The blog is compiled by Antoine Buyse, of Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University.

  • Employment Law blog from Mason Bullock, a firm of solicitors in Northampton and Coventry. The blog provides regular postings about employment law, settlement agreements and general guidance for small businesses.

  • Employment Law Blog is written by Charles Price, an employment law specialist and barrister with No5 Chambers. He covers topics relating to cases in employment law, such as how harassment is being used in claims against employers.

  • Employment Law Update is the blog of Philip Henson, head of employment law and partner at City of London solicitors DKLM LLP. The blog reviews employment related case law, government consultations and legislative changes. It also includes practical tips on employment tribunals, and day to day HR advice; a city focus section looking at regulation and risk; mediation in the work place; links to helpful resources, and a Just for Fun section.

  • Eutopia law comes from members of Matrix Chambers' EU law group. It comments selectively on interesting developments in EU law, particularly as they affect lawyers’ practice areas, and at contributing to the debate on topical issues. It is not intended to promote any particular party line or view-point. The name is a pun on Thomas More's Utopia (published in 1516). "Utopia" is already a pun in Greek: it can be understood as meaning both no-place (ou-topia) and good-place (eu-topia). Eutopia is a further extension of the pun! Current posts look at the apparent suspension of the rule of law in the EU as countries seek to remedy the eurozone crisis.

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  • Family Law from LexisNexis, provides analysis of market issues for family lawyers, as well as news and a more in-depth look at black letter family law. It is written in house by the professional support lawyers at LexisNexis with additional contributions from leading practitioners. A particular focus is family law reform.

  • Family Law Blog comes from Andrew Woolley and his team, of Family Law Firm. The blog covers recent case law and other interesting cases and provides their views on a wide variety of family law related issues.

  • Family Law In Partnership is an informative blog about divorce, children in divorce situations, when to consider collaborative law, special risks in international abduction, topics of jurisidiction. (The blog is at the bottom of this page, below the "News" section.)

  • Family Law Week Blog is a companion site to Family Law Week, which provides free access to all the latest family law news, judgments, analysis and legislation. Family Law Week Blog complements this material with additional comment and coverage of the wider aspects of family law.

  • Family Law Matters is a blog from Jo Spain of Spain Williams. The blog contains articles, information and news on many areas of Family Law.

  • Family Lore is a blog from John Bolch covering serious and not-so-serious posts on the subject. He now has a second blog Family Law Focus for more serious material which provides family law news, including legislation articles and a full list of blogs around the world on family Law.

  • Forbes Solicitors have a blog covering both personal law and commercial law.

  • Free Movement Immigration Law Blog is written by members of the immigration team at Garden Court Chambers in London. It provides updates and commentary on immigration and asylum law.

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  • Gill's blog comes from solicitor Gill Steel and covers topical matters relating to wills, probate, trusts and tax. The blog, together with her main site LawSkills is a mine of information on these topics and she also provides many sorts of legal training in these specialist areas, as well as consultancy. She has been lecturing to the legal profession for over 17 years.

  • Great Legal Content is a blog from Berners Marketing and provides "Comment, advice and marketing resources for ambitious lawyers to promote their expertise via world class content". There is a series of posts on the site on this topic, each one worth reading carefully.

  • Grindeys - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, also provide a news and blog site called Family Law and Divorce with in-depth posts on current developments in family law and court cases.

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  • Hallam Blog is a great source of information on marketing and new media topics. Sue Hallam, who founded Hallam Internet, provides short tutorials on many useful subjects, like a glossary of social media terms, how to use Google Trends, whether Guest blogging is "done", all about Top Level Domains, whether your business needs a legal app, how to fix an email marketing mistake, and.... lots more.

  • HardingEvans Blog offers information on all aspects of law that can affect individuals and businesses, from employment law advice to family advice. There are video blogs as well.

  • (Sir) Henry Brooke provides a blog, subtitled "Musings, Memories and Miscellanea" based on a long and successful career in the law - he is a retired Lord Justice of Appeal and former chairman of the trustees of BAILII, as well as a proponent and champion of IT in the law courts. Instead of writing a book about his life, he is bringing it out in stages, in this blog.

  • Human Law Mediation is an attractive and interesting blog from solicitor Justin Patten which explores the interlinked themes of mediation, law, technology and people. The site includes a lot of useful background information about mediation in general, why it is useful and how it compares to other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

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  • Ian Gould is an experienced solicitor relating to actions against the police and he is head of litigation at David Phillips & Partners. Ian’s blog provides his thoughts and opinions relating to misconduct by the police and wrongful arrest.

  • ICLR Blog chooses the most important legal developments to describe and comes out mostly as "Weekly Notes from ICLR". For example, a recent post included the latest developments relating to human rights legislation (or lack of), the employment law of footwear, protection of intellectual property and a plea for students to slough off their intellectual bubblewrap. The posts are fully categorised by legal topic so that the "thread" can be followed through to the present position. Prepared mainly by Paul Magrath, Head of Product Development and Online Content at ICLR, this blog deserves to be at the top of any lawyers "must look at" sites.

  • IDRAK is a web site and blog covering Islamic Law relating to banking and finance. It provides a primer on Islamic contract law and its sources, before introducing the principal commercial areas: company law (partnerships and corporate governance; the limited liability company), trusts, investment structures and instruments (including sukuk: Islamic investment certificates), insurance, the law of agency/guaranty and wills. It also provides relevant English authorities. The author of the site and the blog, Scott Morrison, lectures in English commercial law at Middlesex University in London but also researches Islamic finance and banking, drawing on his scholarly background in Middle East and Islamic studies, which included periods in Turkey, the Maldives and Dubai.

  • Inforrm stands for the International Forum for Responsible Media which has been set up to debate issues of media responsibility. They say "We believe in an independent, strong, free and responsible mass media. The media has important privileges in the public interest to enable it to perform its role as a public watchdog. But with those privileges go responsibilities. The media’s right to freedom of expression must be properly balanced against the rights to privacy and reputation". There are frequent postings on topics of the media, privacy and the law.

  • IP Draughts comes from Anderson Law LLP but the firm hopes to add other practitioners in due course to get a wide perspective on IP and business law issues. The blog focuses on intellectual property transactions.

  • Ipkat has been covering copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective since 2003. The team is David Brophy, Birgit Clark, Merpel, Jeremy Phillips, Eleonora Rosati, Darren Smyth, Annsley Merelle Ward and Neil J. Wilkof. This is a very significant resource.

  • Information Overlord is a blog on Information Management and Librarian issues with a communications media and technology law slant from Clifford Chance information Officer Scott Vine.

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  • Jack of Kent (David Allen Green) provides "A critical and liberal blog about law, policy, and other things". He provides frequent and in-depth posts on the legal and societal issues of today. He is a Barrister and a Solicitor and also writes for The Guardian, The Lawyer and New Scientist.

  • Jobsworth is a blog from employment lawyer Michael Scutt, devoted to UK employment law and related matters, particularly to issues affecting workers in the City of London and Canary Wharf. Why choose it for the name of this blog? As Michael says "Because it is memorable and because split into its constituent parts it highlights that our jobs are worth a lot to us – even if we don’t particularly like the job we are doing. In fact our jobs are fundamental to us." The topics covered vary from the very serious to the entirley flippant!

  • Joe Reevy provides commentary from many leading industry figures on matters relating to the management of and business development in law firms. There is an additional interest in the blog since it is generated automatically from other material produced by Joe, using his legal marketing website LEGALRSS.

  • Judith's Divorce Blog comprises reflections and emotions associated with divorce, separation and associated topics, as perceived by an experienced divorce practitioner Judith Middleton with the particular "angle" of being associated with Resolution (the organisation which was previously known as the Solicitors Family Law Association). Judith is now retired but still posts occasionally.

  • The Justice of the Peace Blog comes from "A Magistrate of independent mind and a libertarian bent". He says "Having been many years a magistrate with a long awareness of the declining freedoms enjoyed by the ordinary citizen and a corresponding fear of the big brother state's ever increasing encroachment on civil liberties I hope that my observations within these general parameters will be of interest to those with an open mind."

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  • Keepmeontheroad is the Transport Law blog from the Defence team at Rothera Dowson Solicitors, led by Anton Balkitis. There are frequent postings on current topics and cases relating to road transport law, motoring and traffic offences with discussions of the policies behind the regulations.

  • Kim Tasso's blog on "Observations on the management and marketing of professional services firms in the UK" is a very informative and lively resource with frequent postings on current management and marketing topics as well as interviews with key suppliers and commentators. Kim is a highly respected consultant for law firms in marketing and business development.

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  • Landlord Law Blog comes from Tessa Shepperson, a solicitor working entirely in the field of residential landlord and tenant law. She also maintains the Landlord Law site which provides a lot of free information on issues for landlords and tenants and also sells a variety of "packages" of information and documentation from the site. The blog is newsy but serious and well informed.

  • Lanyon Bowdler's Blog is designed for clients of the firm (Lanyon Bowdler is a general law firm located in Shropshire) and provides information about changes in legislation which could affect them, together with news about the practice and its people.

  • Laurence Kaye on Digital Media Law comes from Laurie Kaye, of Shoosmiths Solicitors. It is an extensive and thought provoking blog about the future of digital media.

  • Lawford Kidd's blog comes from Edinburgh Solicitors Lawford Kidd and provides coverage of all areas of the law relating to accident compensation claims, injury claims and no win no fee in Scotland.

  • Legal Action Group blog provides up to date comment and analysis on legal aid and access to justice issues. LAG is a national, independent charity to promote equal access to justice for all members of society who are socially, economically or otherwise disadvantaged.

  • Legal Costs Blog comes from Gibbs Wyatt Stone, Defendant Costs Specialists. The blog covers the expertise expected from specialist costs counsel and the range of services provided by traditional costs draftsmen.

  • Legal Jobs and Recruitment - frequent articles on legal jobs, legal recruitment and the legal profession in the UK, as seen through the eyes of Jonathan Fagan, MD and legal recruitment consultant with www.ten-percent.co.uk. Lots of good chat about jobs, how to get them, how to keep them and generally about the legal profession.

  • Legal Practice Solutions from the consultants at Inpractice UK provides "thoughts on building a more profitable legal practice". The blog covers analysis, research, proven techniques and innovative solutions in all aspects of management to help lawyers and managers develop a more successful and profitable legal business.

  • Legal Project Management Limited is a blog from Antony Smith, a solicitor by training with many years of project based experience working in the legal sector who now helps lawyers become more productive and profitable by the application of project management techniques to all aspects of their business. The blog covers topics in legal project management and ways to improve a firm's performance using these techniques.

  • Life Law NI is a Northern Ireland blog which aims to provide information on all legal matters surrounding family life. The blog highlights any special features of the law related to Northern Ireland and comes from Claire Edgar and Karen Connolly at the Belfast firm of Francis Hanna & Co.. They believe that everybody should be able to access information on legal issues which may affect their day to day lives and that this information should be presented in plain English, with a minimum of jargon. Recent topics include Protecting Your Child Online, Claiming Compensation for Your Child, A Simple Guide to Divorce Procedure in NI and The Black and Minority Ethnic Women’s Network.

  • Lloyd Platt provides a blog/news section which covers views and news about family divorce and other family law issues.

  • Lodger Landlord Blog comes from Tessa Shepperson, who also runs Landlord Law an online service for residential landlords and tenants and an associated blog (see above). There are a series of tips on the blog about renting a room in your home to a lodger. Tips include information on your legal obligations, how to choose lodgers, dealing with problem lodgers, whether you need to worry about the HMO regulations, and so on.

  • LoretoLaw is a blog for A Level law students following the OCR syllabus at Loreto College in Manchester. It includes information about current topics in the syllabus and legal topics in the news and also gives information on future courses to follow at the University stage.

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  • Marc Beaumont's blog: A senior, progressive barrister discusses topical issues. His interests include the Bar, the legal profession, Barristers, direct access to the Bar, property litigation, commercial litigation, defending Barristers, defending solicitors, defending professionals, Mediation, Education Law, Judicial Review, the Bar Council.

  • The Magistrate's Blog is billed as Musings and Snippets from an English Magistrate (Justice of the Peace). The blog is anonymous. The blogger describes cases he comes across with vital facts changed, but where an element of interest (legal or humorous) comes to light. As he says "Where his views differ from the letter of the law, he will enforce the letter of the law because that is what he has sworn to do." He also says "If you think that you can identify a particular case from one of the posts you are wrong. Enough facts are changed to preserve the truth of the tale but to disguise its exact source."

  • Marilyn Stowe Blog (subtitled "Where Family Law meets Family Life") covers many areas of Family Law including Children and Divorce, Cohabiting Couples, CSA, Finances and Divorce, Fostering & Adoption, Gay Marriage, International Divorce and Prenuptial Agreements. There are frequent articles on these topics as well as news and comment.

  • Michael Lyon - Glasgow and Dumfries "theroadtrafficlawyer.com" provides a blog on driving topics related to Scotland.

  • Motoring Lawyers Online, a firm of solicitors in Nottingham, provide a blog called Motoring Solicitors with regular postings about Speeding, Drink Driving and Motoring Law.

  • My Scottish Law blog comes from Bruce de Wert, a Scottish solicitor at Georgesons Solicitors of Wick and Thurso in Caithness. The blog is updated frequently with postings on Scottish Divorce, Scottish Powers of Attorney, Scottish Wills and topics relating to Property Law and Estate Agency. Bruce also offers a number of spcialised sites for the purchase of wills, powers of attorney and divorce services in Scotland, all at very reasonable rates with a particular emphasis on family law.

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  • Nationwide Employment Lawyers provide news and comment on employment topics.

  • nearlylegal "housing law news and comment" is a blog by a group of barristers and solicitors experienced in housing and landlord & tenant law. The site provides updates, case reports and comment on housing law and related matters.The archives contain case reports on pretty much every relevant High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords case since 2007, as well as some County Court and Lands Tribunal judgments. They also have updates on statute, links to other resources and a page of housing news feeds from other sites.

  • Neil Cadwallader Property Law draws together useful legal and other information of interest to property professionals of all kinds, especially those based in the North West: lawyers, surveyors, property managers, developers, and landowners. Neil is a commercial barrister specialising in property law from Exchange Chambers in Manchester and he updates the blog every dya or two. There will apparently also be material relating to ADR, mediation and arbitration soon.

  • NIPC is written mainly by barrister Jane Lambert and contains news and comment on English, European and overseas intellectual property,technology, media and entertainment and competition law. NIPC stands for Northern Intellectual Property Chambers.

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  • Painsmith Solicitor’s Landlord and Tenant provides up to date information on legal happenings in the landlord and tenant sector. It features commentary and analysis on the latest legislation, guidance, and case law in the landlord and tenant world.

  • The Paisley Snail - Wellmeadow Cafe is an internet meeting place for all those interested in Scots law, citizenship and education - with ginger beer and snails. (This is a reference to the famous Paisley Snail case - see the blog for details!). They want to get schools (including primary schools) interested and involved in the processes of law in Scotland. There is also a very good selection of Scottish Law links on the site.

  • PanGloss is a blog from Lilian Edwards of Southampton University. The blog covers online privacy and security law, cybercrime, online intermediary law (including eBay and Google law), e-commerce and digital property.

    This is one of the first blogs from a chambers (as distinct from an individual barrister)

  • Panopticon a new blog about Information Law maintained by members of 11KBW’s Information Law Practice Group. Information law is about the right to know, the right to keep private and the boundary between those rights. It encompasses areas such as data protection, freedom of information, the protection of private information under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, breach of confidence, and the regulation of surveillance. The name apparently comes from Jeremy Bentham’s proposed new model prison, in which constant surveillance would be a tool for moral regeneration; it has become an enduring metaphor in debates about the benefits and the dangers of systematic information-gathering.

  • Pensions Talk from Allen & Overy, covers workplace pension plans, where employers and trustees want to know what everyone else is doing, and what to look out for in the day-to-day running of a pension scheme. Here’s a blog to share experience, trends and tips.

  • Phil Taylor's Law Blog covers current issues in Property Law.

  • piBlawg is a collaboration between piCalculator, a site to calculate damages ("Making Ogden Easy") and leading chambers 1 Chancery Lane. The blog provides an up to date commentary on all legal aspects of personal injury and clinical negligence case law and has frequent (and lively) posts from quite a few contributing barristers.

  • Pink Tape is a blog on Family Law from barrister Lucy Reed. She says "I'd like to think the blog can be a useful resource and / or an interesting diversion for other family lawyers and litigants in person and that more generally it might help to put forward a more human face of the bar in general and in particular the family bar. Small aims then!"

  • PJH Law News is a blog from Liam Pike at PJH Law, a specialist employment firm based in Stamford, Lincolnshire. The blog is lively and has frequent postings, often with a nice little picture.

  • Plan-it Law is a new blog from Cambridge firm Mills & Reeve. Members of the planning team discuss current real estate related issues and other topical planning law questions. There are substantial "meaty" posts on a regular basis.

  • Planning Law Blog comes from Martin H Goodall, a Solicitor who has specialised in planning law for more than 30 years. The blog provides Legal Commentary on issues affecting Town & Country Planning and particularly recent changes in planning legislation and judicial rulings in planning cases.

  • practicesource.com (previously excited utterances) comes from Joy London, UK Know-how & Training Manager now working for Kluwers Law International in New York. She concentrates on knowledge management in legal domains, primarily large law firms, but also in-house corporate counsel, law courts, and regulatory agencies. Her blog has a valuable dual focus approach (USA and UK) on KM topics with detailed comments on the web resources available. She also provides an extended link to other legal blogs (mainly USA based).

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  • QED LAW Legal Education is a new information blog produced by Norman Baird. It currently includes research concerning the number of firsts and upper seconds awarded by each of the UK universities. It will be updated regularly with information about legal education and provides a valuable resource for law students - both present and prospective - as well as legal academics and others interested in legal education in the UK.

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  • Rainscourt Family Law of Milton Keynes, provide a blog written by Katie Rainscourt, on topical divorce matters such as grounds for divorce, maintenance which does (or does not) keep up with inflation, prenuptual agreements and other ongoing topics. It is interesting and does not "talk down" to the readers.

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  • ScotsLawBlog provides the most recent news relevant to Scots lawyers and businesses. The blog is written by Gavin Ward, a solicitor, former Citizens Advice Bureau adviser and private law tutor at the University of Glasgow. There is a facility for law firms, lawyers and law students to display their own legal knowledge and skills as "guest bloggers" - an easy way to try out blogging, with the benefit of the extensive coverage of this blog, and without the hassle. The blog also deals with academic legal topics, particularly ones related to Scotland.

  • Slater and Gordon's blog is actually a set of blogs covering many topics, including employment law, family law, personal injury and so on.

  • Spencers Solicitors Blog from personal injury law firm Spencers Solicitors, provides a commentary on personal injury topics from its solicitors, as well as reporting on campaigns for improved safety on the roads and within workplaces.

  • Stephensons is a large firm with 29 Partners and over 300 staff in 5 north west locations. Stephensons Legal Blog provides a series of blogs written by their solicitors and categorised by work type: clinical negligence, consumer law, family law, employment law, motoring offences, personal injury and residential conveyancing. The blogs are kept well up to date with several entries under one or more of the headings every day.

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  • Technollama covers several Cyberlaw topics, including open licensing, digital rights, software protection, virtual worlds, and llamas. While the blog tackles these issues in a light-hearted manner, some serious points filter through from time to time.

  • Tela is a major Digital Agency with a blog on expert tips on how solicitors can attract and convert more clients online through effective content marketing. Topics include thoughts for online marketing in 2016, writing transparent and semantic content and how many legal firms are missing a trick with their social media.

  • Tilly Bailey & Irvine provide a "News and Opinions" blog on a wide and interesting variety of topics in family law, accident claims and business law.

  • The Barrister Blog is written by non practising barrister Tim Kevan who is the author of the BabyBarista series of novels published by Bloomsbury: Law and Disorder (2009) and Law and Peace (2011). They are based on the BabyBarista Blog which appeared on The Times online for three years and The Guardian online for two years. Tim is also founder of PI Brief Update and Law Brief Update, two free email newsletters coming from a group of mostly barristers to provide brief case reportsto solicitors and other interested parties.

  • Thompsons Solicitors' Blog covers legal matters in Scotland, and particularly personal injury law, with health and safety news, lawyer opinion and topics of litigation in Scotland and in the UK overall.

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  • UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA) is the British section of the International Association of Constitutional Law. The UKCLA blog has developed into an invaluable repository of expert comment and analysis on matters of constitutional law in the UK and further afield. Blog posts have been cited in academic writing, official publications and in the news media.

  • UK Human Rights Blog is associated with One Crown Office Row's Human Rights Update, a database of well over 1,000 reports and commentaries on human rights dating back to 1998. Adam Wagner, the General Editor, founded the Blog in 2010. Jim Duffy is the Blog’s Commissioning Editor and leads an Editorial Team comprising David Hart QC, Angus McCullough QC, Rosalind English and Martin Downs. The cases are taken from domestic courts and the Strasbourg court involving human rights points that demonstrate the impact of the European Convention on domestic law and also explores the practical impact of these cases for practitioners.

  • UK Supreme Court comes from Matrix Chambers and the Litigation Department of Olswang LLP. The authors are solicitors and barristers specialising in litigation and with a particular interest in the work of the House of Lords and the UK Supreme Court. Both Matrix and Olswang were instructed in cases decided by the historic final sitting of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in July, and members of Matrix also presented the first case in the Supreme Court when it commenced sitting in October 2009, concerning the legality of UN sanctions regimes which freeze the property and funds of suspected terrorists. The introduction to the blog says "This blog is dedicated to the UK Supreme Court. The UK Supreme Court is the UK's highest court; its judgments bind lower courts and thus shape the development of English Law. Since 1399, the Law Lords, the judges of the most senior court in the country, have sat within Parliament. From October 2009, however, they have moved to an independent court in the Middlesex Guildhall. To mark this historic development, this blog has been set up to provide commentary on the UK Supreme Court and its judgments." There are frequent postings of issues before the Supreme Court.

  • Unlock The Law blog comes from Stephen Moore and Alasdair Thomson, covering legal issues arising from current news stories. The blog is part of a new site designed to explain legal concepts clearly and to help people understand the legal issues which concern them. The site includes useful legal guides to particular situations such as personal injury for England and Wales.

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  • WardBlawg is a law blog or “blawg” showcasing and contributing to Scots and other laws from around the globe. It aims to provide content from the best minds in the Scottish legal profession, while also providing the most recent news relevant to Scots lawyers and businesses both those domiciled in Scotland and those established elsewhere looking to set up or develop their business in Scotland. The blog is written by Gavin Ward. The blog also deals with academic legal topics, particularly ones related to Scotland.

  • Washminster is written for everyone interested in the work of Britain's Parliament and the US Congress (Washington and Westminster - get it?). Also the European Parliament and the French Parlement. It covers Practice, Procedure, History and current issues. The blog is written by David Morgan, who tutors in Law for both Leicester University and the Open University.

  • Wealth Lawyer is provided by Helena Luckhurst, a Partner in Fladgate LLP, who specialises in advising British and overseas families and entrepreneurs who want to protect their wealth and successfully pass it down to the next generation. The blog is aimed at non-lawyer family wealth advisers including accountants, bankers and wealth managers. Its purpose is to raise awareness of tips, traps and new developments concerning legal wealth planning issues that crop up in this field.

  • Wright Hassall, a major law firm in the Midlands, blogs about a variety of legal matters including corporate and commercial law, medical negligence, property law, and employment law. You can filter the posts shown according to the area of law which interests you.

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    Irish Legal blogs

  • cearta.ie (the Irish for Rights) is by Eoin O’Dell a Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. According to Eoin, the blog covers matters of Irish law which make the headlines, or matters of law in which he has a research interest (Contract, Restitution, Freedom of Expression, Media, IT & Cyber law), with some comments on more general areas of law and politics on occasion.

  • Digital Rights Ireland is a blog by a group of lawyers interested in, and defending, Civil, Human and Legal rights in a digital age.

  • Human Rights in Ireland is a group academic blog with a focus on human rights issues in Ireland and on Irish scholarship about human rights theory, practice, law and politics more generally. The primary intention behind this blog is to provide an online arena for discussing issues arising in Ireland in relation to human rights. In addition to this, they cover Irish scholarship on human rights, and international and comparative developments. The regular contributors to this blog are academics, mostly lawyers, who are working either in Ireland or abroad and whose work relates broadly to human rights.

  • Lex Ferenda is by Daithí Mac Síthigh, a graduate student at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin who is writing a PhD on the regulation of 'Web media'. The blog is on cyberlaw, libraries, media and higher education.

  • IT Law in Ireland covers Irish IT law issues with a focus on freedom of expression, privacy and other fundamental rights. The author is TJ McIntyre, Lecturer in the School of Law, University College Dublin. Recent posts include a discussion of whether irish law protects voicemail, the Amnesty International campaign against online censorship, reports that the US Government is pushing for 2 years of internet data retention, Ryanair in the High Court seeking to identify pilots who have anonymously criticised them online and the latest reason to oppose ID cards (innocent people being branded as criminals on government database).

  • Irish Updates (Updates on Irish and Northern Irish Law) is maintained by Darius Whelan, of University College Cork Law Faculty who also maintains the most important Irish Law Portal Irish Law Links. Darius is also one of the people responsible for Irish Legal Information Initiative - IRLII and its relationship as an information source to BAILII.

  • Michael Monahan of Dublin and Sligo, provides a lively blog on topics relating to personal injury and the Injuries Board.

    Partly UK Blogs

  • Transblawg is a legal translation weblog, designed for legal translators particularly between English and German. The site covers legal developments in the UK and Germany of interest to translators, often in both languages, and is maintained by legal translator Margaret Marks.

    USA and international Blogs (just a few)

  • Blawg Review provides a review of many useful law blogs (mainly US oriented).

  • beSpacific focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information. Although based in the USA, the author, librarian Sabrina I. Pacifici, provides and international perspective.

  • International Family Law is a blog from Jeremy Morley, a New York lawyer but originally from our very own Manchester. He is English-educated with a Japanese wife who has lectured in law in England, USA & Canada. Now however he is focused exclusively on international family law matters. The blog contains longish and well written pieces, not too frequent, on significant topics, e.g. Rights of Custody under the Hague Convention, Rabbinic Courts in Israel, Islamic divorce vs. U.S divorce and English divorce law: Divorced from reality. He also has a main web site for his firm International Family Law Office which is an amazing resource for topics of international divorce, prenuptial agreements and child abduction across many countries.

  • Karel's Legal Blog comes from Karel Frielink, Attorney at Law and Partner at Spigt Dutch Caribbean. The blog covers legal issues relating to Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatia (i.e. the Dutch Caribbean). This is a serious blog looking at Proceedings in various jurisdictions and discussing the issues of litigation involved.

  • What About Clients? (or What about Paris?) is a weblog from US attorney Dan Hull. The prime purpose of his blog relates to Dan's thoughts on servicing business clients as valued customers in American law firms. He believes that the level of service at even the best American law firms is often inattentive and erratic. He is also very interested in encouraging US lawyers (and bloggers) to look at the rest of the world from time to time! For a start he is hoping to be able to compile a list of legal bloggers in Western Europe and to encourage US attorneys to look at these.

    Background to these topics

    A blog is a website designed for frequently added news items which can be set up using various templates and where the detailed work of running a website is done for the blogger by the blogging service provider. This enables interesting (or indeed, uninteresting) people to give us their views without delay, generally on a particular topic.

    A news feed is the way that you (the end user) can identify the blogs you wish to see and have the latest entries automatically brought to your computer. The process is called RSS (Remote Site Syndication) and you download special software to set this up. The blogger has to provide the information in a particular way to enable this to happen and not all blogs offer this facility. And not all people who read blogs want this information “popping up” on their screen when they are in the middle of doing something else.

    A podcast is an audio programme in MP3 format, designed to be “broadcast” to mobile devices such as the i-pod (whence the name), various PDA’s and smart phones. The programmes can also be downloaded to any modern PC, which provides a method of accessing podcasts for those for whom downloading music and then listening whilst working out at the gym is a skill too far! For real devotees, the process can be automated with RSS so you are notified of all new podcasts and can download them very easily for later consumption. Podcasts have suddenly leapt into the public consciousness because of Ricky Gervais’ recent series of podcasts for the Guardian.

    A video blog (or video cast or vlog) is a short video which the blogger provides on their site and which is downloaded and viewed on the user's computer. There is only one legal video blog that I know of, so far - described under the Human Law blog below.

    A wiki is a free, collaborative, online "database". Anyone can search for information or add new information. Whilst this may seem to be anarchy, the wiki automatically keeps a log of changes so the identity of the person making them can be seen and the concept already works very well for the massive and successful Wikipedia.

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