Legal Cheek Journal
The most original writing about legal affairs on the internet.
How young people see the abolition of net neutrality
Free competition between websites is an illusion already
Top family judge’s plan to introduce a new divorce court is an excellent idea that the media has failed to grasp
Misleading headlines about financial remedies
Acid attacks are a pandemic the law is failing to treat
Academics and MPs flock to recommend new laws, but will they make a difference?
How the debate about animals feeling pain became headline news
Government has pledged to enshrine animal sentience into law, but how did we get here?
The possibility of the world’s first head transplant is a medical law nightmare
Questions posed by Mary Shelley centuries ago about what it means to be a person lie unanswered
Can a multi-million pound contract made in the pub ever be binding?
The memory illusion
Tax law has become sexy — but lawyers need to be careful when advising clients
The vice around tax avoidance and evasion is tightening
Joshua Rozenberg: We need to be more open about punishing badly-behaved judges
Lack of transparency blights the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office
The Westminster sex scandal: It’s time for defendant anonymity to be reinstated
Death of Carl Sargeant a wake-up call?
Brexit will not dull the gold standard that is English law
What you see is what you get
Is Brexit the reason we don’t have a no-fault divorce law?
The law as it is leaves a lot to be desired
The fight for Gurkha justice is not over
Eurocentrism is making it harder for Gurkha children to settle in the UK
A 24-year-old charity worker is facing prosecution for holding a sign saying ‘F*** the DUP’
How has the law allowed this to happen?
Government plans to tighten M&A rules sends out the wrong message
Isn't the UK meant to be open and ready for business post-Brexit?
How Brexit became its own practice area
Lawyers can now capitalise on a word that didn’t even exist a few years ago
A crisis in the judiciary: Joshua Rozenberg on the High Court’s failure to staff its benches
Rumour has it only 19 appointments were approved of this year's 25 vacancies
Are we about to see more prosecutions for genocide?
This law has undergone a growth spurt in recent history
Supreme Court’s ground-breaking employment tribunal fees decision – what now?
Balance of power has shifted to employees, says Mayer Brown’s Caroline Mathews
The history of rape laws: Some might find it hard to believe, but the law is a lot better now
Bloody clothes used to be pivotal to a prosecution