Author: Polly Botsford

Court rules rock band can trade mark its name even though it’s offensive to Asians

Free speech can be hate speech in bizarre 'The Slants' case

Jun 23 2017 9:10am

Make it unlawful to stand by and record emergency scenes, argues law professor

Academic paper proposes legal liability for those who video terrorist attacks instead of helping victims

Jun 19 2017 9:07am

SRA moots paying student guinea pigs to sit pilot super-exam

Want to get paid to take the SQE?

Jun 15 2017 1:23pm

Politics ‘governs the very air that we breathe’, says former property litigator hoping to topple Jacob Rees-Mogg MP

Green Party candidate talks politics, her time studying law at Oxford, and her law firm being targeted by terrorists

Jun 7 2017 9:08am

Snap election series: Once fighting for labour rights, now a Lib Dem candidate

Law graduate who once championed miners' rights in South Africa begins new life canvassing on the streets of east London

Jun 5 2017 9:05am

Twiddling thumbs: decreasing demand for legal services ‘endemic’ in the profession, survey finds

A quarter of US firms said their associates don't have full workloads, and this number shoots up when you look at partners

May 31 2017 10:38am

Legal aid in, tuition fees out: Labour’s leaked manifesto

Jeremy Corbyn promises the world

May 11 2017 1:29pm

‘Active, aggressive and long-winded’: verdict on Trump’s Supreme Court appointee

US media sizes up Neil Gorsuch's first court appearances

Apr 21 2017 1:29pm

Snap election: government bill that would make it easier for individuals to set up unis could be scrapped

The Prisons and Courts Bill has already been abandoned, now maybe May's announcement will save us from a Trump University in Britain

Apr 21 2017 10:46am

The case of the missing comma: Court of Appeal judgment is all about the grammar

Lack of the so-called Oxford comma leads to truckers' victory in overtime payment case

Mar 31 2017 9:21am

‘What’s the meaning of life?’ and other surreal questions asked to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee this week

We spoke to a constitutional law expert to find out more about America's heavily-politicised judicial system

Mar 24 2017 10:38am

Click here for ‘Guilty’ plea: Automated convictions legislation in Commons today

MPs to debate proposed online procedures, virtual hearings and much, much more

Mar 20 2017 12:37pm

Rare species alert: INTERESTING pensions cases in the Supreme Court today

Juicy legal human rights issues, equality and the principle of retrospective effect -- with seven QCs getting stuck in

Mar 9 2017 2:10pm

Continental campuses: study law in Paris, Madrid or Helsinki?

Not all with an eye-popping price tag (until Brexit anyway)

Mar 6 2017 9:43am

Barrister gets caught up in a Twitter barny with business consultancy firm

Radio presenter and employment lawyer in social media ruckus

Mar 3 2017 2:14pm

‘Secret Barrister’ lands major book deal achieving every law blogger’s dream

Five publishers bid for the anonymous blogger's first-ever title

Mar 3 2017 9:10am

Law Commission lambasted over espionage law proposals

Journalists, NGOs and lawyers not happy

Feb 24 2017 10:51am