This exploratory paper delves into differences and similarities in the rated seriousness of offences suffered by victims of different national origin. The issue is important

because a mismatch between police and victim assessments of seriousness is likely to fuel discord. [...]

Under English law, prior to 1970 young people up to the age of 21 lacked the capacity to make binding contracts, subject to certain exceptions. The report of the Latey Committee

on the Age of Majority, which had recommended a reduction to age 18, was one-sided and, so far as capacity to make contracts was concerned, offered scant evidence [...]

This article examines the European Court of Human Rights’ decision in RMT v United Kingdom1 on the compatibility of the industrial action balloting regulations and the restrictions

on secondary industrial action with art.11 of the European Convention. This analysis is undertaken in the context of the Court’s inconsistent and contradictory [...]

Part I of the paper considered whether the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (CMCHA) has served as a vehicle for the government to comply with its duties

under the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights 1950, or whether the reservations expressed at the time have proved to be well founded. [...]

This article examines the concept of ‘discursive control’ as a feature of the personality of the subject of non-domination as it appears within Pettit’s theory of politics

and practical reasoning. It explores how the subject of non-domination, in possession of ‘discursive control,’ is enveloped within neo-republican proprietary [...]

Women’s land rights have been part of land law reform agendas taking place across Africa since the 1990s. In 1999 Tanzania was at the forefront, enshrining women’s equal

rights to land in the country’s Land Acts. Yet how effective has the legislation been for women who claim a right to land in practice? Is an individual able to [...]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation that will replace the existing Data Protection Directive on 25 May 2018. The most significant change

is a huge increase in the maximum fine that can be levied for breaches of the regulation. [...]

Reparations activism has forced many large multinational insurance corporations to disclose their early profiteering from underwriting slavery and the slave trade. This paper

further contributes to the reparative project of tracing slavery’s occluded legacies by analyzing aspects of the development of British, French and American marine [...]

This paper focuses on Honig’s critical reworking of the concept of inclination and her concept of “slow regicide”. With “slow regicide” Honig describes a performative

critique of the violence of the patriarchal order. However, what Honig underestimates, I argue, is that this intervention must itself be non-violent if it is not [...]

This paper is concerned with the role of ‘Capacity’ as a conceptual basis for the law’s understanding and treatment of individuals with mental health concerns and mental

disabilities. Focusing on the binary nature of the Capacity paradigm under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, it seeks to argue in favour of a more nuanced understanding [...]