Legal Cheek Journal

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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

Mar 6 2018 11:16am

Joshua Rozenberg on the power of judicial review

Two major, and very different, cases step into the spotlight

Mar 1 2018 9:09am

The legal minefield that is private space travel

International space law is now more important than ever before

Feb 19 2018 11:58am

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

Feb 15 2018 3:15pm

How young people see the abolition of net neutrality

Free competition between websites is an illusion already

Jan 22 2018 2:29pm

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?

Dec 20 2017 12:55pm

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?

Dec 15 2017 12:08pm

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

Dec 6 2017 11:31am

Tax law has become sexy — but lawyers need to be careful when advising clients

The vice around tax avoidance and evasion is tightening

Nov 24 2017 2:15pm

Joshua Rozenberg: We need to be more open about punishing badly-behaved judges

Lack of transparency blights the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office

Nov 23 2017 9:03am

Is Brexit the reason we don’t have a no-fault divorce law?

The law as it is leaves a lot to be desired

Nov 2 2017 11:12am

The fight for Gurkha justice is not over

Eurocentrism is making it harder for Gurkha children to settle in the UK

Oct 27 2017 11:56am

Government plans to tighten M&A rules sends out the wrong message

Isn't the UK meant to be open and ready for business post-Brexit?

Oct 20 2017 2:08pm