Law According To A King

"Two students currently studying A-Levels, having just finished the first year, aspiring to do Law at university with interests in both criminal law and commercial law." The past year has seen the rise of intense demonstrations all around the world ultimately named as part of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. Regarded as the spark of these protests, on the 25th of May 2020 Minneapolis Police Department detained George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man accused of buying cigarettes with a ‘counterfeit’ $20 bill. Derek Chauvin, one of the police officers who was tasked with detaining Floyd, kept his knee on his neck for around nine minutes resulting in unconsciousness and ultimately the death of George Floyd. On April 20th 2021 Mr. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The case was heavily publicised with a lot of media coverage and many agreed Derek Chauvin received a fair trial yet some argue, due to the

"Hi! My names Lexi and I live in Cornwall. I'm just about to go into my second year of college, where I study Law, History and Psychology. After I finish my A Levels I hope to go to Bristol University to study Law" The general public had little access to the lives of celebrities prior to the digital age. People were rarely carried away by the escapism of celebrity scandals. However, technological advancements have resulted in daily headlines on dating rumours to what celebrities eat for breakfast. As a result, public curiosity about celebrities has increased and so has the invasion of privacy.   The Law and Privacy  Currently, in the United Kingdom, the media aren’t subject to any regulations over their content, though of course they can still be prosecution for spreading hate speech. For example, the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to stir up religious hatred, whilst the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 makes it an offence to incite hatr

"Hi! My name is Lily and I am an 18 year old A Level student from Northamptonshire. I am currently studying History, Sociology and Politics and hope to study law at university next year. I am particularly interested in Human Rights law, and the way in which this intersects with LGBTQ+ issues." Liberal’, ‘tolerant’ and ‘progressive’ are all terms that most would associate with the British legal system. The most significant changes in pursuit of these factors have been made rather rapidly and recently, most notably through the Equality Act 2010. This combined previous ad hoc anti-discrimination laws, and combined them into one piece of more coherent and accessible legislation. The Act contains nine ‘protected characteristics’: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Workplace and wider social discrimination against an individual falling into any of these categories is no

"My name is Safiya Rizvi. I will be starting year 13 this September. I want to do pursue higher studies and career opportunities in the field of law. I am trying to gain work experience, for example, I just did a law work experience program with Springpod. My interests are public speaking, debating and doing Theater. Besides English, I also know French and Hindi as other languages. I have good analytical, research and communication skills because of my A-level subjects." What is ‘Hate Speech’? First and foremost, the legal definition of Hate Speech differs from country to country. Let’s see how the Cambridge Dictionary defines it - "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation". These aspects of a person’s identity are known as ‘protected strands’ of identity. Any form of communication that demonstrates hatred towards any individual based on, along with the th

Through seeking equality, the law seems to aspire to do the impossible: erase differences. Though progressive legislation and regulations in Europe often single out disabled persons for favourable treatment to overcome systemic and historical disadvantages, the core approach of the law remains the same. This is undoubtedly a more challenging task when seeking to ensure all disabled people live on an equal footing, and the law has often given up when it seems too hard, particularly considering how the disabled community are uniquely diverse in their characteristic that qualifies them for protected status; for the LGB+ community, they are protected by virtue of their sexual orientation, for ethnic and racial minorities, it may be their culture or their skin colour, and for women, men, and transgender individuals, they are protected because of their sex. Disabilities are far more diverse than even culture: some estimates have there being 6,000 distinct cultures in the world, whereas there

" I'm 17 and currently doing my A-levels in History, Government & Politics and Philosophy & Ethics. I enjoy cooking, video games and debating social problems with others; which'll hopefully help me when I go to University to do law." Arabella, a young woman in her late 20s, was left confused and scared after an encounter with a man called Zain. Whilst the beginning of their hook up began well, midway through Arabella’s partner removed his condom without her knowledge and consent. She felt violated after learning what he did, not knowing that non-consensual condom removal (also known as ‘stealthing’) is rape and prosecutable under UK law.  Whilst Arabella and her story is fiction, from the 2020 BBC show “I May Destroy You”, stealthing is all too real and a growing problem in the 21st century. But what is stealthing? While it seems to be very self-explanatory as just the removal of a condom without a person’s consent, there are nuances within the law that broade