Law According To A King

"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...

"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...

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 ...

Mill's 'harm principle' forms the basis of many of our legal principles, particularly when viewed from the perspective of a liberal critic. This harm principle, which states that the law should only regulate behaviour to prevent harm to others, has a particularly strong case when considering anti-discrimination law, which exists primarily to prevent people from suffering the effects of both direct and indirect discrimination - direct being when a rule singles a group out for unfavourable treatment (think segregation or denying service to gay customers), and indirect being when an apparently neutral rule has a disproportionate impact on a minority group (for example, literacy qualifications for voting may disproportionately harm immigrants or minorities from low-education backgrounds). The harm principle underpins much of anti-discrimination law, but when it comes to certain areas, the law seemingly abandons it and takes a different approach, and these shall be examined in t...