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...

What I think drove me to the law is the idea that I can help people. I grew up watching people on TV be scared and alone, and then a lawyer would turn up and fight for them. I wanted to be that lawyer - I wanted to help people. It sounds dumb, but honestly the idea of becoming a lawyer first came into my head when I watched Ally McBeal . Seeing someone be funny and honest and flawed while being able to put on that suit, head into the courtroom, and kick some ass. I told the partner that at my first vacation scheme interview for a corporate law firm, and he laughed and said that maybe there will be less dancing in the toilets in their office than there is in Ally McBeal. I smiled back, and replied there would be less dancing until I arrived.  The law can be an immensely powerful thing - of course, I'm biased. We all see the world through the lenses we choose, but it is undeniable the impact that the law and lawyers have had on the world. We might not have started the journeys, but s...

Following the July Court of Appeal's decision to allow Shamima Begum to appear in court to argue her case in person, Boris has railed against the judiciary, calling the decision to grant Begum legal aid "odd and perverse", and committing the government to review not just the legal aid policy, but the entire system of judicial review. This article will set out the case for protecting and expanding legal aid provision in Great Britain, and examine the effects of an absence of legal aid on the justice system as a whole.  The case of Shamima Begum It is likely that you will already be familiar with Ms Begum - the infamous ISIS fighter who left the UK aged 15 to fight alongside the terrorist organisation in Syria. Following her discovery in 2019 by a journalist, then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship. Begum had married a Dutch jihadist a week after arriving in Syria, with whom she had three children, none of whom survived infancy. According to reports in the T...

Lady Hale, the first female President of the UK Supreme Court, has long been an advocate for increased diversity at the bench. A self-avowed feminist, it is unlikely that she would have taken a different viewpoint, but when one of the finest legal minds in the United Kingdom says something, it is important to listen.  There are different kinds of diversity, Lady Hale reminds us - from race and ethnicity, to gender, socio-economic class and legal specialism. A family lawyer, Hale took the lead on some of the most significant family law cases in modern legal history, from Stack v Dowden , which established that factors other than financial contributions can be taken into account when dividing a property, to R (Gentle and Or) v The Prime Minister & Ors , where although the applicant was ultimately unsuccessful in her attempt to open an independent inquiry into the Iraq War, the position of Lady Hale as a judicial force was cemented, crediting her family specialism with her unique ...