Tag: Legal affairs

Supreme Court hears its first ever gig economy case

Far-reaching changes to employment law on the horizon

Feb 20 2018 9:11am

The legal minefield that is private space travel

International space law is now more important than ever before

Feb 19 2018 11:58am

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