Qualification as a barrister by accident of birth In July 2009 it was reported that Prince William had been made an honorary barrister....

Demolition crush injuries: £40,000 fine Health and Safety Executive v Complete Demolition Ltd (2016) Liverpool Crown Court, July 8...

Under the 1987 Criminal Code, every socially dangerous action or omission, prohibited by law resulting in a penal sanction, is a...

Day care centre death: suspended prison sentence for support worker Health and Safety Executive v Tracey Ann Gilboy (2016) Leeds Crown...

Pro bono initiatives Old books for the third world The organised distribution of secondhand law books to sub-Saharan Africa, the poorer...

Recent reports of increased levels of race hate and racist abuse mean that all lawyers with any sense of justice must unite to fight this...

COMPUTERS AND THE LAW A computer is a good servant but a bad master (amended old English idiom). We are currently experiencing...

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust fined £200,000 for safety failings Health and Safety Executive v Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation...

British Telecommunications PLC has been fined after two of its employees were seriously injured in falls from height. Significant points...

Care home company fined £400,000 for bedrail failures Health and Safety Executive v BUPA Care Homes (CFC Homes) Ltd, Carlisle Crown...

Money and the English legal system To understand the reality of the practical workings of the English legal system, and to comply with...

For many people, their main contact with lawyers is dealing with the solicitor who handles the procedure of buying and selling houses....

Crushing death: suspended prison sentence Health and Safety Executive v Gordon Leach t/a RGE Engineering Company (2016) Peterborough...

Individual and collective human rights For an ex-miner in Blaenau Gwent, suffering from a terminal lung disease, who develops a raging...

Claims management services Since the introduction of conditional fee agreements (“no win no fee”) in England, many claims management...

“No win no fee” “No win no fee”, in reality, is a grotesque over-simplification which reflects the naïve innocence of clients. It has...

Conditional fee agreements (CFAs) In April 2000 legal aid for routine personal injury cases was abolished and replaced by “no win no fee”...

Law as a potentially corrupting profession The rule of law by money can corrupt many young lawyers. They may start as idealists,...

Health and Safety Executive v Sears Manufacturing Company (Europe) Ltd (2016) Cwmbran magistrates’ court, April 22 Sears Manufacturing, a...

Aspects of the Cuban system Husbands are legally obliged to share equally in household chores and child rearing. Mortgage payments are...