Tag: Legal affairs

From 3D organs to acid attacks: Which Legal Cheek Journal article is the best of the year?

The most original legal affairs writing on the internet

Feb 16 2018 10:16am

The final countdown to GDPR compliance begins

Womble Bond Dickinson's data protection team explains the key points of the big legislative change of 2018

Feb 15 2018 3:15pm

Top QC expresses fear over waning influence of British lawyers in development of EU law

Media doesn't help by ignoring contribution by UK advocates, says Baroness Helena Kennedy

Feb 9 2018 10:24am

Tort textbooks set for update as new Supreme Court judgment changes law of negligence

Donoghue v Stevenson, Caparo v Dickman and Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police all get a mention

Feb 8 2018 1:54pm

The Weinstein effect: ‘My once boring practice as an employment barrister has suddenly become glamorous’

#MeToo movement has diluted sexual harassment stigma but 11KBW tenant says bringing legal claims remains tricky

Feb 1 2018 9:14am

How young people see the abolition of net neutrality

Free competition between websites is an illusion already

Jan 22 2018 2:29pm

London law student handed suspended sentence over part in £750,000 fraud

‘Severe question mark’ over her legal career

Jan 17 2018 11:45am

A matter of life and death: Supreme Court justices hear capital punishment case

Top barristers at Matrix Chambers defend man sentenced to hang

Jan 16 2018 9:03am

A copyright law partner shares his Radiohead vs Lana del Rey predictions

Songs do sound similar, Bristows’ lawyer Simon Clark concedes

Jan 9 2018 11:49am

Law on driving with mobile phones a ‘confusing mess’, top criminal barrister says

The rules are tricky for lawyers even to find, let alone understand

Jan 5 2018 12:29pm

2018 predictions: A year of fake news, gay cakes and feminist celebrations awaits

Putting the Legal Cheek stake in the ground

Jan 3 2018 9:21am

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?

Dec 20 2017 12:55pm

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?

Dec 15 2017 12:08pm

Can Facebook really listen in on your conversations?

The hills have eyes, but it would be a 'scandalous breach of data protection' if they have ears too

Dec 13 2017 9:10am

Uber revs its engine as London licence battle reaches Westminster Mags

App’s lawyers working harder than Santa’s elves

Dec 11 2017 11:38am

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

Dec 6 2017 11:31am

‘Keep our geeks!’: Protesters descend on High Court as new Lord Chief Justice hears Lauri Love extradition case

Should suspected hacker, who has Asperger’s and depression, be sent to the USA for trial?

Nov 29 2017 2:44pm

Tax law has become sexy — but lawyers need to be careful when advising clients

The vice around tax avoidance and evasion is tightening

Nov 24 2017 2:15pm