law

Council say ruling ‘could open floodgates for unlicensed sex shops’.

Six screenings dealing with social unrest.

This one’s for keeps, while Tox faces a prison sentence.

Eine is expert witness as graffiti writer is convicted.

Hang around on Twitter for a while and you soon become aware of the vitriol. Campaigns against perceived mistakes by companies or publications are often well founded, but what happens if this ‘Tweet justice’ is directed at an individual? At you, for example. Twitter has …

A new study by UCL has found that less than a third of jurors understand the law. This doesn’t seem all that surprising when you consider it – after all, law is a complex animal riddled with arcane points which even some in the profession …

There’s a growing movement to reform the UK libel laws, which are regarded internationally as unjust, stifling of debate and cripplingly expensive for the person accused. You can read the full background here. This morning, campaigners including Dara O’Briain, Robin Ince, Alexi Sayle, Nick Ross …

Ha, 40 portraits in one photograph. So sue me. Image not copyrighted by M@. A US citizen who uploaded thousands of images of National Portrait Gallery paintings to Wikipedia has been threatened with legal action, if a letter from Lincoln’s Inn lawyers Farrer & Co., …

Whilst a City broker is protesting in the employment tribunals about being propositioned by her boss for “great sex” on business trips and claiming he’d branded all his female staff a “team of prostitutes” the real sex workers of the city are planning a protest …

The ever thought-provoking Birkbeck Sports Business Centre Seminar Series continues this evening with a session given by James McDougall on “Sport in the UK and Europe: A Golden Future or Just Meddling?”. The talk centres on the work of the Central Council of Physical Recreation, …