Legal Cheek Journal
The most original writing about legal affairs on the internet.
Yarl’s Wood hunger strike shines a spotlight on the shameful way the UK runs its immigration centres
120 detainees refuse food in protest
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
Is ‘national security’ fast becoming a tool of protectionism?
Growing use of national security grounds to intervene against foreign investments flies in the face of Theresa May's 'open for business' mantra
Joshua Rozenberg on the power of judicial review
Two major, and very different, cases step into the spotlight
Parliamentary bill fronted by nine-year-old boy spells landmark moment for organ donation
Everyone's talking about Max's Law
The legal minefield that is private space travel
International space law is now more important than ever before
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
How young people see the abolition of net neutrality
Free competition between websites is an illusion already
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
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?
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?
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
Can a multi-million pound contract made in the pub ever be binding?
The memory illusion
Tax law has become sexy — but lawyers need to be careful when advising clients
The vice around tax avoidance and evasion is tightening
Joshua Rozenberg: We need to be more open about punishing badly-behaved judges
Lack of transparency blights the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office
The Westminster sex scandal: It’s time for defendant anonymity to be reinstated
Death of Carl Sargeant a wake-up call?
Brexit will not dull the gold standard that is English law
What you see is what you get
Is Brexit the reason we don’t have a no-fault divorce law?
The law as it is leaves a lot to be desired
The fight for Gurkha justice is not over
Eurocentrism is making it harder for Gurkha children to settle in the UK