Law According To A King

"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...

"I'm an A-level student studying English Literature, History, and Government and Politics, currently serving as Deputy Head Girl of Herschel Grammar School, and a Co-Founder of the Herschel Law Society. I hope to study Law at university and pursue a career in the legal industry. I love to read - currently reading "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky"." The question raised about felon disenfranchisement also inevitably raises the question as to whether the prison system should be more about rehabilitation, or punishment; something which must also be considered when contemplating this predicament. Convicted persons, during the time that they are detained in a penal institution, are legally incapable of voting at any parliamentary or local government election . One presumes this to be completely preposterous because prisoners, even those who serve the average life sentence, will eventually be released into society, and will be expected to become productive citizen...

"I would consider myself a confident person who likes to socialise and spend time with their friends in their free time. However, I have a more serious side and in my spare time also like to debate current issues in the world and consider different viewpoints about these issues." In 1707, English law became one of two legal systems in different parts of the same  United Kingdom. Since then, the law is something that billions of people put their faith in daily: from trusting that people will be fined for not picking up their rubbish to trusting that  the big, bad criminals will be locked up in prison. However, devastating mistakes have made  many people in todays’ society, including me, question should we truly trust the legal system  that we have relied on for many years? If I say the names Derek Bentley and Elijah McClain  you may not recognise them. But that is where the problem lies, these two innocent people  deserve to be talked about more and how the ...

"17-year-old currently studying law, RE and History at A Levels." 1. Anti-Asian hate crimes during COVID-19. While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on people's health around the world, it has also resulted in an increase in hate crimes targeting a specific racial group. East Asians have recently been subjected to more heinous abuse than ever before and with COVID-19's origins in China, many uneducated individuals have taken it upon themselves to racially attack anyone Asian, believing that just because they are of Asian descent they need to be referred to as some disease. According to data from the UK police, hate crimes against East and Southeast Asians increased by 300 percent in the first quarter of 2020, compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019. From name calling, to physical abuse, there has been a wide range of attacks and they are damaging the safety of Asians in society. Jonathon Mok, 23 was just simply walking along Oxford Street when he heard the chants of...

Modern international law finds its basis in the ruins of the global order following WWII, when the major superpowers of the USA and the Soviet Union were allied against Nazi Germany, and human rights were at the top of the agenda. At the Moscow Conference in 1943, the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union discussed the end of the war and spoke to the importance of establishing "at the earliest practicable date a general international organisation, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving States ... for the maintenance of international peace and security." It was this event, preceded by the London Declaration and the Atlantic Charter of 1941, that led to the creation of the United Nations at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.  The basis of international law, therefore, is the equality between all States - the notion that international law cannot be imposed on a sovereign State without its consent - and ...