

Radical Changes? Organ Donation in 2020.
Recent developments indicate a massive change to organ donation under the NHS system is set to happen, subject to Parliament approving...


Legal Aid Cuts = Unlawful!
Under the current Conservative Government, the English legal system has experienced crippling cuts to legal aid. Legal aid essentially...


Update: Removing Life-Support
This article focuses on a recent ruling (the background facts can be found here ) by the Supreme Court, which addresses the current need...


Unhappily married?… Not grounds for divorce!
A recent Supreme Court decision held that being unhappily married is not grounds to permit a divorce in England and Wales. It should be...


Abortion: 50 years on
On 27th October 1967, the Abortion Act received royal assent . 50 years on, I reflect on the Abortion Act by discussing what exactly is...


Mortgage Repossessions: What you NEED to know
Having recently started taking on cases of my own as a freelance advocate, I've realised that in practice, mortgage repossessions are...


Access (finally) Granted: Gay rights activist wins 13 year asylum battle
The commonly held belief that the number 13 is an unlucky one doesn't seem to apply to Aderonke Apata , who, after 13 years of battling...


Assisted Dying: A cloudy future
Assisted Dying (also referred to as Euthanasia in this article) has been a topic of discussion that has been raging for decades now, and...


Equality for ALL: pension rights for same-sex couples
It appears that there was another massive step in favour of equality, again out of the Supreme Court, as a man has won equal pension...


Hillsborough: The Contempt of Court Act - can it work?
Contempt of Court has been somewhat been in the limelight recently, particular in relation to the Katie Rough trial and of course, the...













