David Lammy is right to encourage use of modern slavery laws, says human rights lawyer
MP’s report recommends more prosecutions under modern slavery legislation
Polly Botsford
Polly Botsford is a freelance law and current affairs writer.
End ‘direct jurisdiction’ of EU courts post Brexit, says government
But Justice Minister says UK will need to keep “half an eye” on its rulings in the future
Law professor reprimanded for setting exam problem question about bikini waxing
Attack on academic freedom?
ULaw to move Chester campus closer to city centre
Guessing game begins on new location in Hollyoaks-land
What the Dickens? New courts abandon ‘arcane’ titles
Chancery and Mercantile courts make way for more ‘user-friendly’ monikers
Court rules rock band can trade mark its name even though it’s offensive to Asians
Free speech can be hate speech in bizarre ‘The Slants’ case
Make it unlawful to stand by and record emergency scenes, argues law professor
Academic paper proposes legal liability for those who video terrorist attacks instead of helping victims
SRA moots paying student guinea pigs to sit pilot super-exam
Want to get paid to take the SQE?
Politics ‘governs the very air that we breathe’, says former property litigator hoping to topple Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
Green Party candidate talks politics, her time studying law at Oxford, and her law firm being targeted by terrorists
Snap election series: Once fighting for labour rights, now a Lib Dem candidate
Law graduate who once championed miners’ rights in South Africa begins new life canvassing on the streets of east London
Twiddling thumbs: decreasing demand for legal services ‘endemic’ in the profession, survey finds
A quarter of US firms said their associates don’t have full workloads, and this number shoots up when you look at partners
Snap election series: The bar is ‘excellent groundwork’ for life as an MP, says lawyer turned Conservative candidate
Suella Fernandes shares her thoughts from the campaign trail
Lord Chief Justice: It’s essential that quality of legal education and training is not ‘diluted’ with any reforms
Speech highlights key role of law schools
Legal aid in, tuition fees out: Labour’s leaked manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn promises the world
Law students are more likely to be psychopaths than their psychology-studying peers — but economics and business students are the ‘darkest’
The study looked at Machiavellianism and narcissism too
The SQE is a revolution which American law schools should learn from, says US legal education expert
‘You need different roads to Rome’
‘Active, aggressive and long-winded’: verdict on Trump’s Supreme Court appointee
US media sizes up Neil Gorsuch’s first court appearances
Snap election: government bill that would make it easier for individuals to set up unis could be scrapped
The Prisons and Courts Bill has already been abandoned, now maybe May’s announcement will save us from a Trump University in Britain
The case of the missing comma: Court of Appeal judgment is all about the grammar
Lack of the so-called Oxford comma leads to truckers’ victory in overtime payment case
‘What’s the meaning of life?’ and other surreal questions asked to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee this week
We spoke to a constitutional law expert to find out more about America’s heavily-politicised judicial system
Click here for ‘Guilty’ plea: Automated convictions legislation in Commons today
MPs to debate proposed online procedures, virtual hearings and much, much more
Rare species alert: INTERESTING pensions cases in the Supreme Court today
Juicy legal human rights issues, equality and the principle of retrospective effect — with seven QCs getting stuck in
Continental campuses: study law in Paris, Madrid or Helsinki?
Not all with an eye-popping price tag (until Brexit anyway)
Barrister gets caught up in a Twitter barny with business consultancy firm
Radio presenter and employment lawyer in social media ruckus
‘Secret Barrister’ lands major book deal achieving every law blogger’s dream
Five publishers bid for the anonymous blogger’s first-ever title
Law Commission lambasted over espionage law proposals
Journalists, NGOs and lawyers not happy
How the House of Lords might save us from a Trump University in Britain
Government’s controversial university bill has stormy ride through upper house
A good day at work? Not likely if you’re a lawyer
It’s not just Trump and Brexit which are getting us down
Brexit’s Great Repeal Bill is a never-attempted ‘massive problem’: is Oxbridge prof stating the obvious to Lords’ committee?
There was also a lot of talk about Henry VIII clauses and Acquis Communautaire
From swimming lessons to solitary confinement — the highs and lows of human rights
A single week shows the diversity of ECHR cases
Withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights – the next Brexit?
Catgate PM talks of “clean break” with European court and convention
MoJ’s criminal bar pay proposals under fire over fears baby barristers will lose out
Legal aid changes described as ‘a nasty whack for junior hacks’
‘Inexperienced’ solicitor struggling with 170 cases struck off for dishonesty
He paid client compensation out of his own pocket
Solicitorsupermarket.com coming soon?
Competition watchdog report focuses on price transparency — oh and full independence for the SRA from the Law Society
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8 things you’ll only understand if you study law at King’s College London 
Law is the hardest degree to get a first in 
‘Don’t give up on a career in legal aid’ lawyers urge students, as government reveals firms doing publicly funded work has fallen by 20% 
Judge complains after being handed bundle containing 2,000 pages of ‘largely irrelevant material’ 
Ex-UEA criminal law lecturer who fled court during indecent images trial given three-and-half-years in prison
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