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My funniest spam YouTube comment

99% of the comments on my YouTube channel are amazingly positive and often incredibly insightful. It is really difficult to put into words how grateful I am that there is such a strong community. With more than 7,000 subscribers it is like being in charge

Do Westworld’s hosts have human rights?

Season 2 of Westworld is fast approaching an exciting climax and what better way to celebrate than with a video on Westworld and the law? The hosts are proving to be more than a match for their human counterparts but should they be entitled to

Free speech isn’t dead; now shut your mouth!

There were two legal news stories this week that were not linked but had an impact on free speech. In the first, Tommy Robinson was jailed for 13 months for contempt of court. He live-streamed a video outside of Leeds Crown Court when there were

Instagram Drama With @mlcleaver

So here’s a story for you folks. I recently got the following messages on Instagram when I didn’t respond to a request immediately: ? Thank you for not responding but an answer would have been polite. I am only asking because as I said I

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

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