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False imprisonment: common ground? Premium Content
Barrister Philip Rule examines the relationship between false imprisonment & Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights
26 February 2020 / Philip Rule
Does anyone believe in witches?
Geoffrey Bindman QC breaks the spell of witchcraft
26 February 2020 / Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC
Preventing corporate human rights harms
UK businesses want certainty on how to avoid human rights abuses
12 February 2020
Justice students
Students are invited to human rights organisation Justice’s annual student conference in London’s International Dispute Resolution Centre on 7 March
23 January 2020
NLJ this week: Reform or revenge?
What does this term of Parliament have in store? 
10 January 2020
Standing up for the Rule of Law Premium Content

An independent profession & judiciary are by no means a given in many parts of the world, says David Greene

 
28 November 2019 / David Greene
No privacy in online wild west
The right to privacy does not exist in the online ‘wild west’, the Joint Committee on Human Rights has concluded. 
06 November 2019
Whistle while you work Premium Content
Nicholas Dobson analyses the recent decision extending protection to those who blow the whistle while on the Bench
31 October 2019 / Nicholas Dobson
Wedding bells in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland made history this week, legalising same-sex marriage and decriminalising abortion.
23 October 2019
Democracy under threat
MPs are restricting advice surgeries with constituents and many are increasingly reluctant to use public transport alone in response to threats and abuse, according to an alarming Human Rights Committee report published last week. 
23 October 2019
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Tribute to Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC
Human rights lawyers, social justice champion, co-founder of the law firm Bindmans, and NLJ columnist Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC has died at the age of 92 years
NLJ this week: Law Society calls for clarity on AML
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
NLJ this week: Turning corporate liability into opportunity
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
NLJ this week: A prince no more?
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
NLJ this week: Shareholder secrecy sunk
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
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