Legal Cheek’s top read stories of 2022
From City lawyer spending habits to barrister parking wars; it’s been another year stuffed full of click-inducing content
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The problem with policing prostitution
Law student Dudley Davidson-Jarrett explains why policing an age-old practice proves particularly problematic
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GDPR: social media and the right to be forgotten
George Ketsopoulos speculates why teenagers learn Latin but not how the internet works in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
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Should there be criminal liability for corporations?
Debate about corporate manslaughter thrust into spotlight following Grenfell Tower fire
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They say that data is the new oil — but who exactly owns it?
As part of Legal Cheek’s occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally, today, on the day that new data protection rules come into force, we delve into the unchartered territory of the law on data ownership
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Should sex offenders have access to the internet?
It’s seen as a human right
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Brexit: Are we going to run out of time?
Politicians and academics grapple with Article 50 two-year deadline
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Black Lives Matter: How to fix a failing criminal justice system?
A broken bridge to equality
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Can we regulate Uber into ‘doing the right thing’?
In the first of its kind, Legal Cheek launches an occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally
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Yarl’s Wood hunger strike shines a spotlight on the shameful way the UK runs its immigration centres
120 detainees refuse food in protest
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Why are British nationals being prosecuted for fighting against ISIS?
You risk your life fighting terrorists, then get treated like one when you come home
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Joshua Rozenberg on the power of judicial review
Two major, and very different, cases step into the spotlight
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The legal minefield that is private space travel
International space law is now more important than ever before
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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
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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?
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Can a multi-million pound contract made in the pub ever be binding?
The memory illusion
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Tax law has become sexy — but lawyers need to be careful when advising clients
The vice around tax avoidance and evasion is tightening
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Is Brexit the reason we don’t have a no-fault divorce law?
The law as it is leaves a lot to be desired
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The fight for Gurkha justice is not over
Eurocentrism is making it harder for Gurkha children to settle in the UK