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Yellow vests crisis: What are flash-balls and why haven’t they been banned?

As gory reports of injuries increase, French police are increasingly criticised for deploying this controversial weapon

Feb 5 2019 10:30am
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Should the courts decide what is in the best interests of a child?

The judiciary is not suited to deal with the complexities of medical life-and-death scenarios

Jan 16 2019 10:50am
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Modernising the Mental Health Act

KCL postgrad Emma Diack looks at the changes ahead

Dec 20 2018 12:05pm
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Assisted dying: Will the UK ever alter the law?

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision suggests not

Nov 28 2018 9:52am
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Is the Supreme Court’s landmark life-support ruling a step closer to allowing assisted dying?

Patients in a vegetative state can now die without legal permission if doctors and family members are in agreement

Jul 31 2018 11:39am
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ISIS Beatles: The UK government should not facilitate their execution just because it falls under another jurisdiction

What’s the point of having no death penalty in Britain if we extradite people to countries where they do?

Jul 24 2018 2:00pm
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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

Jun 19 2018 11:24am
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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

Jun 11 2018 2:20pm
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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

Jun 4 2018 2:50pm
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Yarl’s Wood hunger strike shines a spotlight on the shameful way the UK runs its immigration centres

120 detainees refuse food in protest

Mar 14 2018 10:21am
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Parliamentary bill fronted by nine-year-old boy spells landmark moment for organ donation

Everyone’s talking about Max’s Law

Feb 26 2018 1:24pm
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How the debate about animals feeling pain became headline news

Government has pledged to enshrine animal sentience into law, but how did we get here?

Dec 15 2017 12:08pm
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The UK needs to pass a law against super-skinny models — a law student and model explains why

If looks could kill

Nov 20 2017 2:08pm
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The fight for Gurkha justice is not over

Eurocentrism is making it harder for Gurkha children to settle in the UK

Oct 27 2017 11:56am
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What’s the point of the Race Relations Act if black people are STILL discriminated against?

Fifty years since the act was passed and it’s not clear how far we’ve come

Sep 13 2016 9:29am
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Why homosexual asylum seekers’ sexual identities are still not being respected

The Supreme Court’s HJ judgment: a case comment

Aug 18 2016 10:45am
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Jewish human rights: No need to boycott the boycotters, says High Court

Is this the biggest setback to British equality law in modern history?

Aug 10 2016 10:21am
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Judges, you need to catch up with parliament in your treatment of transgender people

Stop reminding litigants what used to be between their legs

May 6 2016 11:12am
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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

Apr 12 2016 10:03am
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