Law According To A King

"Hello! My name is Trudy and I am a 17 year old A level student. I am aiming to read law at university, and I'm highly interested in commercial law, land law and inequalities within the law. " To be homeless is a multifaceted circumstance, one that is often misconceived and generalised. A person can be legally homeless for many reasons, for example, if they are at risk of abuse, are living in unreasonable housing, unemployment – not forgetting the hidden homeless who are living in temporary accommodation, emergency housing, or squatting. Coronavirus induced an economic hardship on a myriad of people, and The Bank of England expects the unemployment rate to reach around 5.5% in the autumn.  With the ban on evictions being lifted, and the ‘Everyone In’ scheme (a plan that gave emergency accommodation to the homeless in the pandemic, saving around 266 lives) having finished, the transmission of Covid-19 is inevitable among those languishing in confined spaces or living on th...

We all know the plot of the first Shrek  movie: Lord Farquaad rounds up the land's fairytale creatures and dumps them in Shrek's swamp, leading the ogre to rescue a princess to get his land back, but what if there was an easier way than enduring blistering winds and scorching deserts, climbing to the highest room of the tallest tower, fighting a dragon, and trekking across the country with a talking donkey and a were-ogre princess in tow? What if, for argument's sake, Shrek visited his local lawyer? In England, where we shall assume the plot takes place (thanks to the accent of Lord Farquaad), all land is legally owned by the Crown, but it is safe to assume that Shrek owns his land in a freehold - technically a 'fee simple absolute in possession'. What does this mean exactly? 'Fee' means that the swamp is inheritable, 'simple' means it can be possessed by anyone, not just lineal descendants, 'absolute' means that there are no conditions on ...