On 27 April 2018 the High Court ruled that Senior Coroner Hassell’s policy never to prioritise any decision on the basis of the religion of the deceased or family was unlawful and should be quashed. This is Hassell’s third defeat in Court. A pattern is emerging. She attempts to avoid her duties to a…
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Will Mindreading Tech Be the Death of Lawyers?
In 1999 James Grinder had confessed to murdering a woman who had died 15 years prior, but soon after retracted his…
The Script Vs James Arthur: Unconscious Plagiarism & Intellectual Property
Music is often a determined sequence of chords and rhythms, words and melodies, but sometimes a song has an…
Business has never been more complicated in the legal arena. The role of today’s General Counsel (GC), supported by in-house legal teams, has gone from providing sound legal advice to also delivering strategy and direction in both legal and business matters. Below Bryan Melchionda, Director of…
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The Knock-On Effect of Facebook’s Data Blunder
Following the recent scandal surrounding Facebook & Cambridge Analytica, Dorothy Agnew, Partner, Corporate and…
Access to Justice Re-established with Small Claims Limit Bump
Responding to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee’s report on increasing the small claims limit for…
The NHS is a health system that prides itself on transparency and even quotes itself as “on the journey to becoming one of the safest and most transparent healthcare systems in the world” in its Five Year Forward View. Below Jason Brady, Head of Blackwater Law, discusses the NHS’ influence on…
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Regulating Amazon & Facebook: Easier Said Than Done
The world’s biggest tech giants, the top of these being FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google), all…
3 Potential Issues for Cosby’s Expected Appeal
Following the April 26 conviction of Bill Cosby on three counts of “aggravated indecent assault” for drugging and…