Tag: Criminal law

Penultimate-year law student, Shayda Darwish, explores how social psychology can distort jury decision-making

Akhmed Yakoob boasts over 200k social media followers

Queen’s Belfast law student Sarisha Harikrishna explores the impact of brain function and behaviour within the context of criminal offences

Unforeseen critic

Ruth Ellis was executed in 1955

Nottingham Uni PPE graduate Charlie Downey, examines the biases, ethics, and flaws of the death penalty in modern justice systems

ULaw grad Priya Pandya looks at the impact of Operation Early Dawn while drawing comparisons to the popular nursery rhyme

King’s College London grad Lucy Sutton explores the implications

Akhmed Yakoob tells Legal Cheek how he cultivated his online following

Fundamental change is required to avoid a 'complete collapse', warns solicitor advocate Ben Brown

Government chooses not follow 15% minimum rise recommendation

Shit Lawyer is 'a manifesto for change', says Abigail Rolling

Low pay 👎 long hours 👎 poor work-life balance 👎

Move comes in response to 'unacceptably low' legal aid fees

'Justice system on its knees', say bar leaders

'Utterly detached from the reality', wrote one barrister on Twitter, as crumbling courts and case backlogs continue to blight justice system

The Defenders airs from spring

From Boohoo brand deals to legal aid work for St Mary's Uni law grad Tyler Cruickshank?

Many are still keen on crime but very aware of 'atrocious' pay and conditions

Low pay, long hours and a crumbling justice system could be putting off the next generation of criminal lawyers

Bristol University student and future trainee William Holmes explores the challenges ahead for brain-computer interface (BCI) systems