The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday announced what is being billed as a “massive liberalisation” of the internet’s naming system.
As The Times reports here, ICANN has “approved a ‘land grab’ for new web addresses that will allow people to apply for any top-level domain name… Scripts other than Latin – for [...]
A relatively unheralded development was the tabling, on 17 June, in the European Parliament of a written declaration on the significance of the liberal professions in Europe. The text, including the Preamble, is a call by the European Parliament as follows:
A. whereas the liberal professions, such as pharmacists or architects, are a key sector [...]
Blade had feared that, thanks to the gamut of new media technologies which make a journalist’s life both easier and more challenging than it was 20 years ago, shorthand was a dying skill. He need not have worried. The NCTJ has a shorthand board and has just conducted its annual seminar. Among the ideas put [...]
Over in LA LegalTech @ West Coast 2008 is underway. Lest this appear something of a hike – not least, given that the conference is already a day old – you can check out what’s happening thanks to Law.com. Likewise, those contemplating how the Web 2.0 world and the latest advances in IT will have [...]
The law and reform don’t always make for the best of bedfellows. The law is conservative by its nature, with change happening incrementally rather than in one fell swoop. But, as the front page of The Law Society Gazette says, the reforms set in motion by the Clementi report are going to have a major [...]
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.