The English barristers’ profession guards the gates to its entry with barriers of steel. Aspiring barristers have, in general terms, to...

Changes to employment law The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, which received the Royal Assent on April 25, has significantly...

Crimewatch:an exemplar of the spectacle of class justice The crimes presented in the Crimewatch television programme by glamorous...

Law as a weapon of class conflict P. Thompson made the following points about English law in the historical context of class: The common...

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, which received the Royal Assent on April 25, has significantly changed employees’ rights in...

Legal aid Legal aid was conceived as a cornerstone of the welfare state. The current system was created by the Legal Aid etc Act 1949 as...

Alternative practice The practice of law in an alternative way attempts to address the fact that the poor are denied justice and to...

Examples of poor clients who have been denied justice Redundancy Practice as an employment lawyer currently involves an increasing number...

Woodland v Essex County Council: Supreme Court decision on liability of schools for swimming accidents The tragic consequences of...

Shrewsbury pickets In 1972, building workers held their first ever national strike for decent pay and health & safety at work. Five...

Health and safety law is the Cinderella of the English legal system. It rarely features in law school syllabuses, iunder constant attack...

Poverty is not a legal issue. Poverty exists because wealth is unevenly distributed. The solution for dealing with poverty is the...

Vicarious liability: recent case law developments Vicarious liability means, in general terms in the context of employment, that an...

The sight of vulnerable homeless people sitting on pavements begging is an affront to a society which allows huge payments to a tiny...

The Examples of UK cases connected with the Iraq War following selection of Iraq-War related cases aims to show the range of issues...

Lawyer jokes (found on the Internet) • What is the difference between lawyers and sperm? There’s no difference: one in 50 million has a...

Sexism and the law Albie Sachs and Joan Hoff Wilson, Sexism and the Law:A study of male beliefs and judicial bias This book, published in...

Use of Latin The dictionary definition of “pro bono”, an abbreviation of pro bono publico, is “free, used to denote the giving of free...

Class justice means, essentially, that the principles of justice operate inequitably in favour of one class of people in relation to...

Albie Sachs considers whether the obligation on the state to promote socio-economic advance should be made a constitutional duty. He...