Category Archives: Food for thought

Juries are often considered necessary due to ‘tradition’, a fundamental key to democracy and allows people to be judged by their peers, but does that mean that juries are ‘better’ or needed? Should the way you receive legal judgement be a weighing of odds? Juries are made up on 12 members, you only need twoContinue reading “Trial by Jury; in need of abolishment?”

Some of the deep rooted beliefs that s.41 YJCE Act 1999 aims to extinguish Those pesky archaic beliefs held about rape that have no real bearing on actual rape, defined by Burt, 1980, p.217 as being “prejudicial, stereotyped, or false beliefs about rape, rape victims and rapists”. These ill-conceived beliefs can even impact the wayContinue reading “Rape Myths”

Within the UK we no longer have the death penalty, with the last execution happening in 1964, and true abolishment occurring five years later. So, why should we care? It’s happening in many countries across the world, but it’s not happening here, so… out of sight out of mind huh? This is the wrong kindContinue reading “The Death Penalty – Methods Used”

A lesser known inequality in the law – the married vs the cohabitants As some of you might know (particularly those who are studying equity), the case of Curran v Collins shone a spotlight on the deficiencies in the law relating to cohabiting couples. Under UK law, married couples are protected in many areas, includingContinue reading “Bereavement Payments for Cohabitants”