Legal Cheek Journal
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Making a Murderer: Is our criminal appeals process any better?
The factually guilty routinely ‘let off on a technicality’, while the factually innocent stay in prison
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Devil’s advocate – why bishops in the House of Lords must go
Political power should be earned
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Coroners and Justice Act 2009: Is it a blessing or just further stressing?
The introduction of the loss of control defence is a step backwards for the criminal law
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Compliance and the robot lawyer: What happens when it all goes wrong?
Who regulates robots?
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Competition: The Global Financial Crime Blogging Prize
Legal Cheek Journal competition opens — with free return flight to New York for the winner
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How law touches on every area of sport
An introduction to the little known world of sports law
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A brief history of non-delegable duties in tort
When can duties be contracted out?
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It’s not the judiciary’s place to stop people having kinky sex
Judges need to stop being so vanilla — and stop meddling in our sex lives
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Julian Assange, you’re not being ‘arbitrarily detained’: step forward and stop evading the rule of law
The United Nations couldn’t have got this any more wrong if it’d tried
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The ‘justice gap’ in sexual offences: Why is the criminal justice system failing rape victims?
Conviction rates are depressingly low
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Joshua Rozenberg: Supreme Court to sort out bedroom tax mess — but it won’t be easy
The background to this week’s human rights showdown explained
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The MM case: Long distance couples challenge the ‘anti-love law’
Supreme Court ruling could lead to an influx of immigration
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Assisted dying — a right not a request
There’s no excuse, now is the time to fight for legislative reform
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Do we need a new Magna Carta for the digital age?
The current law can’t cope with the social media phenomenon
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It’s time to move away from trusts principles and towards proprietary estoppel in acquisition cases
Co-habiting couples are on the up, and they need property rights too
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A critical analysis of the R v Taylor Supreme Court judgment
Taking a vehicle and killing someone with it is no longer enough to be convicted of aggravated vehicle taking
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The rise and rise of Islamic finance law
What is Islamic finance? And why is it so great?
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The Defamation Act 2013: What is it and has it worked?
Nods to free speech, but has a detrimental impact on businesses
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Introducing the Legal Cheek Journal
Now it’s your turn to write
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Policing the police — when does discretion become dangerous?
Excessive discretion runs counter to criminal justice goals