TIME & DURESS: Would Eric McNally really go to prison?
If you’ve not seen Time, the new BBC prison drama, stop reading and watch it now. It’s fantastic. Eye-opening, gritty and powerful, the three-episode series follows Mark Cobden (Sean Bean) and Eric McNally (Stephen Graham), a first-time prisoner and experienced prison officer, on a horrifying journey through the English penal system. If you’ve not seen…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Shamima Begum
IntroductionDouglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy opens with Arthur Dent lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer to prevent it from knocking down his house- the bulldozer has been sent to clear the way for a new city bypass. In a parallel scene a few pages later, Protetnic Vogon Jeltz of the…
The Snail and the Soda
The “Paisley snail” case, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100, set out the blueprints for the civil wrong of negligence in English tort law. Negligence is the most common ‘tort’ (or ‘wrong’) for which people seek compensation in England and Wales. Complainants (formerly known as ‘plaintiffs’) sue individuals and organisations in negligence for road traffic…
Deep Fake Technology and Pornography
Introduction The law has always struggled to evolve at the same pace as technology. As people find more inventive ways of hurting and degrading each other, the law is locked in a perennial battle against humanity’s worst instincts. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have thrown down the ultimate gauntlet for…
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