Tag: Legal affairs
GDPR: social media and the right to be forgotten
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
What you need to know about the Grenfell Tower inquiry
The judge, the lawyers and more
Should there be criminal liability for corporations?
Debate about corporate manslaughter thrust into spotlight following Grenfell Tower fire
Clause 8(e): The Cambridge Analytica enabling clause
Law student Joe Ferris delves deep into the Data Protection Bill in his runner-up entry to the BARBRI International Privacy Law Blogging Prize
Your favourite law memes could be banned under EU copyright directive
Brussels bigwigs could ‘destroy the internet as we know it’, say digital rights campaigners
Supreme Court says Northern Ireland abortion ban breaches human rights — but decides it can’t do anything about it
Majority find against restrictive laws but throw the case out on a technicality
In opposition to data ownership
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
They say that data is the new oil — but who exactly owns it?
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
Drunken consent in rape cases: Why the law leaves a lot to be desired
Legislation and case law raises questions
No-fault divorce gets the Supreme Court treatment
Lady Hale, who's hearing today's case, is a vocal supporter of divorce law reform
Lawyer sues Oxford University over claims its dictionary mixed up land law definitions
Wants £20,500 in damages
In the Supreme Court today: Is denying straight couples a civil partnership unlawful?
Lady Hale to hear boyfriend and girlfriend's human rights challenge
The story of Christabel Pankhurst, the law graduate suffragette barred from joining an Inn
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
Consensual sadomasochism is private sex — not violence
Law students marvel at R v Brown, but has the law got it right?
Barrister fired from London firm after exchanging sex contracts with colleague and spanking her on partner’s desk takes ex-employer to tribunal
Cambridge grad claims unfair dismissal
Lady Hale and Supreme Court colleagues to hear ‘gay cake’ case today
Justices sit in Belfast for first time, as human rights barrister predicts case outcome for Legal Cheek
‘We are being fed a diet of filth and twaddle’ — but top journalists say it’s education, not law, that will tackle fake news
Big names in media, including Wikipedia's head honcho, debate misinformation scandal
First murder conviction quashed on back of Supreme Court’s syllabus-changing joint enterprise ruling
But campaign group JENGbA says law is still in a 'dangerous place'
Dentons investigated by SRA over faked notes scandal
Largest law firm in the world in firing line after slam by tribunal in staff discrimination case
