Legal Cheek Journal
The most original writing about legal affairs on the internet.
A lawyer’s guide to blockchain
Osborne Clarke's Mark Taylor helps us to understand the technology behind blockchain, how it’s changing business, and what legal challenges it presents
Is now the time to end the divorce ‘blame game’?
Supreme Court decision in Owens v Owens rasies important questions
Is the Supreme Court’s landmark life-support ruling a step closer to allowing assisted dying?
Patients in a vegetative state can now die without legal permission if doctors and family members are in agreement
Revenge porn: Love Island and the law
The legislation is heading in the right direction -- albeit slowly
Owens v Owens: Has the time finally come for a ‘no-fault divorce’ system?
Wife must remain in unhappy marriage, Supreme Court rules this week
ISIS Beatles: The UK government should not facilitate their execution just because it falls under another jurisdiction
What’s the point of having no death penalty in Britain if we extradite people to countries where they do?
Supreme Court to consider Scotland’s EU exit legislation
Norton Rose Fulbright's senior knowledge lawyer Andrew Sheftel explains why
Resting in peace? How we need to regulate the industry which thrives on your afterlife
What happens to your Facebook page after you die? Should someone be able to faceswap a photo of you as a corpse and post it on Snapchat?
Law firm flotations — buyer beware
Investing in UK-listed outfits may be profitable, but there are associated risks
Protecting data caught in the ‘dragnets’ of Facebook
Future trainee Wilkie Hollens explores why protecting data matters in an era when it's 'increasingly likely' we'll begin falling in love with our computers
GDPR: Good for social media users, bad for business
The EU regulations may not be the change the world of data protection actually needed, says law graduate Chloe Amies in her shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
GDPR: social media and the right to be forgotten
George Ketsopoulos speculates why teenagers learn Latin but not how the internet works in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
Should there be criminal liability for corporations?
Debate about corporate manslaughter thrust into spotlight following Grenfell Tower fire
Clause 8(e): The Cambridge Analytica enabling clause
Law student Joe Ferris delves deep into the Data Protection Bill in his runner-up entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
In opposition to data ownership
Should you be paid for every page you like on Facebook? Read the winning entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize, by UCL law student Natalie Chyi
They say that data is the new oil — but who exactly owns it?
As part of Legal Cheek’s occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally, today, on the day that new data protection rules come into force, we delve into the unchartered territory of the law on data ownership
Drunken consent in rape cases: Why the law leaves a lot to be desired
Legislation and case law raises questions
Consensual sadomasochism is private sex — not violence
Law students marvel at R v Brown, but has the law got it right?
Should sex offenders have access to the internet?
It's seen as a human right
Why DDoS protests won’t fit into freedom of expression rights
A response to 'Prioritise intent, not effects: A nuanced approach to DDOS cyber-attacks and free speech'