Legal Cheek Journal

Liverpool University graduate Lydia Campbell explains the legal background to the week’s big judicial decision

Market forces should be the determining factor, not regulations

Osborne Clarke’s Mark Taylor helps us to understand the technology behind blockchain, how it’s changing business, and what legal challenges it presents

Patients in a vegetative state can now die without legal permission if doctors and family members are in agreement

The legislation is heading in the right direction — albeit slowly

Wife must remain in unhappy marriage, Supreme Court rules this week

What’s the point of having no death penalty in Britain if we extradite people to countries where they do?

Norton Rose Fulbright’s senior knowledge lawyer Andrew Sheftel explains why

What happens to your Facebook page after you die? Should someone be able to faceswap a photo of you as a corpse and post it on Snapchat?

Investing in UK-listed outfits may be profitable, but there are associated risks

Future trainee Wilkie Hollens explores why protecting data matters in an era when it’s ‘increasingly likely’ we’ll begin falling in love with our computers

The EU regulations may not be the change the world of data protection actually needed, says law graduate Chloe Amies in her shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize

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

Debate about corporate manslaughter thrust into spotlight following Grenfell Tower fire

Law student Joe Ferris delves deep into the Data Protection Bill in his runner-up entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize

Should you be paid for every page you like on Facebook? Read the winning entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize, by UCL law student Natalie Chyi