New research published by Women for Refugee Women reports that Britain is failing in its duty to protect female asylum seekers. Detained highlights concerns surrounding Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire which has attracted...
Read moreTheresa May is seeking powers to strip terror suspects of UK citizenship even if it leaves them stateless, in an amendment to the Immigration Bill. The controversial legislation is due to have its report stage and third reading in the House of...
Read moreEvery day millions of people using the Internet in the UK break the law. There are thousands of cover songs posted on YouTube, and pictures uploaded on Facebook and Twitter, many of which most undoubtedly break Copyright laws. Increasingly the...
Read moreThe Freedom of Information Act a policy introduced under Tony Blair’s Labour party in 2005 is looks set to be restricted under new Conservative proposals. The suggestion has sparked an outcry, with 76 organisations writing to the prime minister...
Read moreFirst newspaper phone hacking scandals, now mass surveillance. The debates are raging; are the secret services any better than the papers? And how do these actions sit alongside Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights? The measures...
Read morePopular soap Coronation Street is exploring the controversial issue of ‘euthanasia’, with a character, dying of pancreatic cancer, who decides she wants to take her own life. The soap sensitively explores both sides of the argument...
Read moreAmong the many minefields to dodge in the journalistic field Defamation is a particularly important one to know and understand. While there are lines, it is very easy for journalists to cross them due to the many grey areas within existing law...
Read moreFor months politicians and newspapers have been embroiled in a bad-tempered row over the future of press regulation. Photo from Flickr under creative comms licence by Megan Mallen But in recent weeks there have been some dramatic developments. On...
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