Legal Cheek Journal
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Where’s the fair use?
Copyright law is struggling to keep pace with technology. Mayer Brown associate Jonathan Dack looks at what this means for vloggers as the #WTFU debate gathers pace
Religion and the law: Political correctness gone mad?
France is leading the way in the secularisation of the state, but will Britain follow its lead?
Could new EU legislation spell the end for vaping?
Vapers hold their breath as EU finalises onslaught on e-cigarette industry
Business or businessman: Who to sue when things go wrong
When can a third party claim against company members directly?
EU law or the ECHR: Which does more to combat racial discrimination in Europe?
Both offer something different, but there’s still a long way to go in the fight for racial harmony
Joshua Rozenberg: Delayed legal highs law will be a fruitful ground for litigation — when it’s finally implemented
Poppers are probably exempt from the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, but no one is quite sure about jalapeño peppers
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
Devil’s advocate – why bishops in the House of Lords must go
Political power should be earned
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
Compliance and the robot lawyer: What happens when it all goes wrong?
Who regulates robots?
Competition: The Global Financial Crime Blogging Prize
Legal Cheek Journal competition opens -- with free return flight to New York for the winner
How law touches on every area of sport
An introduction to the little known world of sports law
A brief history of non-delegable duties in tort
When can duties be contracted out?
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
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
The ‘justice gap’ in sexual offences: Why is the criminal justice system failing rape victims?
Conviction rates are depressingly low
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
The MM case: Long distance couples challenge the ‘anti-love law’
Supreme Court ruling could lead to an influx of immigration
Assisted dying — a right not a request
There’s no excuse, now is the time to fight for legislative reform
Do we need a new Magna Carta for the digital age?
The current law can’t cope with the social media phenomenon
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