Tag: Legal affairs

Seven fun facts about next week’s Supreme Court Brexit case

Ever wondered how many cups of tea the court's café is expecting to serve? Wonder no more!

Dec 2 2016 12:25pm

Article 127: the new Brexit legal stumbling block?

And it wasn't a lawyer or a law academic who spotted it

Dec 2 2016 9:18am

What can the world’s mightiest superheroes teach us about international law?

A look at the Syrian conflict through an Avengers lens

Dec 1 2016 10:02am

More criminal law cases to learn as Supreme Court makes landmark diminished responsibility ruling

Seven justices examined the law degree syllabus staple and chose not to allow the appeal

Nov 30 2016 10:57am

The Brexit High Court challenge: why the Lord Chief Justice has opened Pandora’s box

Welcome to the constitutional aftershocks of the leave vote

Nov 29 2016 9:53am

What would happen if the Queen went on a crime spree?

Prosecuting the monarch: a whistle stop tour of the legal difficulties

Nov 24 2016 11:15am

Could the European Court of Justice really rule on Brexit?

Legal Cheek speaks to some of the country’s top EU law experts to find out

Nov 23 2016 9:01am

‘Litigator-in-chief’: Trump and his litany of lawsuits

Will he be the first ever US president to give evidence in open court?

Nov 18 2016 10:53am

Sci-fi nightmare: could law students soon be learning about judgments made by robots?

Finding the limits of AI’s advancement in the English common law

Nov 10 2016 11:05am

Supreme Court success for families involved in bedroom tax battle

Seven-judge bench upholds the claims of Jacqueline Carmichael and Paul and Susan Rutherford

Nov 9 2016 11:37am

The privacy law storm gripping social media

Don’t trash the e-mails you receive from Facebook

Nov 8 2016 10:05am

How lawyers forced Theresa May to back the judiciary

Legal profession takes centre stage in constitutional crisis as Liz Truss left exposed

Nov 7 2016 7:34am

The law of wrongful life: Should the children be able to make claims?

A wrong has been done, the child has suffered, they deserve compensation

Nov 3 2016 10:10am

Supreme Court to hear ‘landmark’ abortion case today

Legal dream team assembled to argue Northern Irish women’s right to travel to England for free terminations

Nov 2 2016 8:57am

The invisible crime of female genital mutilation

“Abused unchecked” report reveals zero convictions in 16 years, but maybe that’s because the law is far too unclear

Nov 1 2016 9:10am

Jogee: Court of Appeal refuses to grant leave to appeal in swathe of joint enterprise cases

Mixed reaction from lawyers as 13 convictees’ applications dismissed

Oct 31 2016 1:43pm

Lawyers react to ‘deeply concerning’ draft law that would keep alleged rapists in the dark about who accused them

One said this nonsense wasn’t doing his blood pressure any good

Oct 27 2016 11:10am