Legal affairs

What happens to your Facebook page after you die? Should someone be able to faceswap a photo of you as a corpse and post it on Snapchat?

Investing in UK-listed outfits may be profitable, but there are associated risks

Future trainee Wilkie Hollens explores why protecting data matters in an era when it’s ‘increasingly likely’ we’ll begin falling in love with our computers

The EU regulations may not be the change the world of data protection actually needed, says law graduate Chloe Amies in her shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize

Digital forensics is a growing area, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s infallible

He was jailed for six years for killing father-of-ten Gary Stacey

George Ketsopoulos speculates why teenagers learn Latin but not how the internet works in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize

The judge, the lawyers and more

Debate about corporate manslaughter thrust into spotlight following Grenfell Tower fire

Law student Joe Ferris delves deep into the Data Protection Bill in his runner-up entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize

Brussels bigwigs could ‘destroy the internet as we know it’, say digital rights campaigners

Majority find against restrictive laws but throw the case out on a technicality

Should you be paid for every page you like on Facebook? Read the winning entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize, by UCL law student Natalie Chyi

As part of Legal Cheek’s occasional series exploring buzzing legal research across the UK and internationally, today, on the day that new data protection rules come into force, we delve into the unchartered territory of the law on data ownership

Unconstitutional

Legislation and case law raises questions

Lady Hale, who’s hearing today’s case, is a vocal supporter of divorce law reform