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The forgotten victims of domestic abuse

At least 57% of women in prison and under community supervision are victims of domestic abuse. Paramjit Ahluwalia briefs readers on the proposed amendments to the Domestic Abuse ...

07 October 2020 / Paramjit Ahluwalia

Refugee Channel crossings: the legal position

Crossing the busiest shipping lane in the world in a small dinghy may or may not be ‘bad and stupid and dangerous’, but is it really criminal? An analysis of the legal position, by ...

07 October 2020 / Colin Yeo

The UK Internal Market bill: Brexit lightning rod or storm in a teacup?

The government’s plan to break international law was a shock to lawyers and international partners alike – but it will not stop the UK and the EU doing a deal, writes Raphael ...

05 October 2020 / Raphael Hogarth

Women at the Bar in 2020

Women are still leaving the Bar. So what are we doing about it? Professor Jo Delahunty QC takes a memory trip through recent times to assess whether times are changing, or it’s ...

28 September 2020 / Professor Jo Delahunty KC

The truth about our human rights laws, by the Secret Barrister

Few cases raise more hackles than foreign nationals breaching our criminal law, only for the government’s attempts at deporting them to be frustrated. An extract from Fake Law: ...

03 September 2020 / The Secret Barrister

Protecting lawyers at risk

Six organisations came together to share their institutional knowledge and expertise for the creation of a Legal Toolkit for Lawyers at Risk. Dr Theodora Christou explains how ...

19 August 2020 / Dr Theodora Christou

Isaac Ssemakadde pictured with Dr Stella Nyanzi

Protimos: the legal disrupter

With freedoms at stake, the rule of law and legal precedent are used to protect and honour community resources, and calls for the organisation’s services grow louder each year. By ...

28 July 2020 / Fiona Darroch

An appetite for arbitration

Dealing with the fall-out of coronavirus business interruption: Ricky Diwan QC 's guide to how international arbitration can be used for effective dispute resolution as we face ...

28 July 2020 / Ricky Diwan KC

Opinion: Where next for post-COVID criminal justice? asks The Secret Barrister

Something must be done or the much-vaunted ‘new normal’ will be taking place without us. The Secret Barrister boils down the critical issues into a five-point alternative recovery ...

28 July 2020 / The Secret Barrister

Opinion: The fallacy of ‘24-hour justice’

With fast-track justice measures reportedly back on the table, the risks of miscarriages of justice through rushed proceedings in a criminal justice system already at breaking ...

26 July 2020 / Zoë Chapman

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