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Community and Custom: Ghana's Pre-Colonial Approach to Justice
Deladem Ohenewaa Mensah, PhD candidate https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2023/10/5-minutes-for-black-history-month-with.....
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Sep 19, 20247 min read


Deep-Sea Mining and Maritime Protest: Incapacitation and Direct Enforcement in the NORI Case
Laurence Teillet, PhD candidate at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-courses/courses/our-students-stories/law/laurence-teillet Steve...
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Sep 12, 20247 min read


Expedited Justice – Riots in the UK
Dr Sophie Gallop, Senior Lecturer at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/sophie-gallop Photo courtesy of Unsplash + Getty...
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Sep 6, 20246 min read


Vicarious Liability and Foster Parents
Christopher Ratcliffe https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/christopher-ratcliffe Vicarious liability is not a tort, yet will take up...
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Aug 23, 20246 min read


Human Ties to Landscape: Law and Policy in Respect of Naming Places
Prof Helen Hall, NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/helen-hall Shakespeare’s Juliet famously poses the question “What’s in a...
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Aug 9, 20245 min read


The Cass Review, Bolitho and Montgomery
Dr John Rumbold, Lecturer NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/john-rumbold The Cass Review was a far-reaching review of the...
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Jul 26, 20245 min read


Are We Finally Admitting that Prison Doesn’t Work?
Orla Slattery, Lecturer NTU https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/orla-slattery In 1993, the then Conservative Home Secretary Michael...
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Jul 17, 20245 min read


The Election Results: Legal and Practical Impediments to the Right to Vote
Dr Sophie Gallop, Senior Lecturer NLS , https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/sophie-gallop The right to vote, also known as suffrage...
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Jul 10, 20247 min read


Sleepwalking violence: Some comments on the recent trial of a Blundell’s schoolboy
Dr John Rumbold, Lecturer at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/john-rumbold A recent trial looked at a shocking incident at a...
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Jul 5, 20245 min read


Amnesty in Spain: Tension and Discussion
Sergio Díaz Sánchez, Visiting Scholar, NLS The cries of traitor were heard several times on May 30th when members of the Spanish...
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Jun 14, 20245 min read


Bank Holiday Quiz
With the end of Term 3 in sight, the editorial team wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors to the blog in the...
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May 24, 20242 min read


Pirates, Pacts and Witches
Rev'd Dr Helen Hall, Associate Professor NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/helen-hall Images and stories of pirates and...
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May 17, 20245 min read


Primum non nocere (first do no harm) and the Cass Review: Has the medical profession learnt the lesson of previous medical scandals?
Dr John Rumbold, Lecturer at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/john-rumbold The final report of the Cass Review into the...
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May 10, 20248 min read


Navigating the Legal Maze: Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Liability
Dr Xiaocong Liu, Research Assistant at Nottingham Law School, NTU As we approach the era of autonomous vehicles, the legal community is...
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May 3, 20247 min read


Celebrating World Intellectual Property Day 2024: IP & the SDGs
Dr Janice Denoncourt, Associate Professor at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/janice-denoncourt This year the NLS...
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Apr 25, 20248 min read


The Contractual Back Door of Bates v Post-Office
Dr Ryan Cushley-Spendiff, Lecturer at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/ryan-cushley-spendiff Since the ITV dramatization of...
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Apr 18, 20246 min read


Playing Away in Luxembourg: Sport’s Big Day at the Court of Justice – The First Half
Simon Boyes, Senior Lecturer at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/simon-boyes On the 21st December 2023 the Court of Justice...
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Apr 11, 20246 min read


Artificial intelligence and opportunities for access to criminal justice
Dr James Thornton, Senior Lecturer at NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/james-thornton In this post, I am going to consider...
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Apr 4, 20248 min read


Hot Cross Buns and the Law
Rev'd Dr Helen Hall, Associate Professor NLS https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/helen-hall Food retailer Iceland received...
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Mar 28, 20243 min read


‘A golden ticket’ or ‘the treacle of unkind bureaucracy’? SEN provision and Local Authority decision-making
Callum Scott, Supervising Solicitor NLS Legal https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/law/callum-scott The Children and Families Act 2014...
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Mar 22, 20245 min read
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