Legal affairs

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

Wants £20,500 in damages

Lady Hale to hear boyfriend and girlfriend’s human rights challenge

We pick up the trail of the female suffrage campaigner coined ‘Queen of the Mob’ by the press, 100 years after (some) women got the vote

Law students marvel at R v Brown, but has the law got it right?

Cambridge grad claims unfair dismissal

Justices sit in Belfast for first time, as human rights barrister predicts case outcome for Legal Cheek

Big names in media, including Wikipedia’s head honcho, debate misinformation scandal

But campaign group JENGbA says law is still in a ‘dangerous place’

Largest law firm in the world in firing line after slam by tribunal in staff discrimination case

Postcode lottery

It’s seen as a human right