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Who is your fantasy lawyer?

It is the greatest injustice of our times, you have been charged with a crime that you did not commit. Who do you want to defend you? History is filled with famous lawyers and I am giving you free rein. It could be Abraham Lincoln

Free Movement of Capital and the Economic and Monetary Union

Under Art. 63 TFEU “all restrictions on the movement of capital…shall be prohibited”. This free movement of capital has vertical and horizontal direct effect as per Sanz de Lera [1995]. The freedom also includes the movement of capital between EU and third countries. Movement of

Does being a black lawyer matter?

A recent article by Tom Junod about the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, Mike Tomlin, asks one very important question: Does it matter that Tomlin is a black coach? The answer varied based on who the journalist asked. For white people the

We Shouldn’t Need a Legal Walk

But the truth is that we do. It is now more than five years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) came into force in the UK and stripped legal aid down to the bare minimum. That is why thousands

We Expect Teachers to Protect Pupils

I don’t think there is much of a grey area where it comes to this statement but in our latest episode of the UK Law Weekly podcast there is an argument presented to the Supreme Court that the safeguarding duty doesn’t apply when the headteacher

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Reilly v Sandwell MBC [2018] UKSC 16

Known sex offenders obviously represent a threat to the safety of children but if a head teacher is friends with a convicted sex offender and fails to disclose it is she liable to be dismissed? Not only do we answer that question in this episode

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Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding [2018] UKSC 14

What is the nature of the relationship between a director and their respective company? In this case an argument was made under the Limitation Act 1980 that it is analogous to the relationship between a trustee and beneficiary. For the claimant such a finding would

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Steel v NRAM Ltd (Scotland) [2018] UKSC 13

A Scottish solicitor made an error when drafting a deed that meant the security over an entire property was released instead of just one unit. Did that solicitor owe a duty of care to the other party who she was not representing? In this episode