By Clement Cheung A first year Law student undertaking the UCL Dual Degree Programme with Hong Kong University. The mandatory Access to Justice placement, organised and overseen by the CAJ, forms an important part of the first year of the programme. Perhaps this blog post can begin with how disappointed I was initially, when assigned to the…
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The Impact of Brexit on Human Rights in the UK
By Ila Tyagi In her second blog post Ila Tyagi, an LLM student in International Commercial Law at UCL, writes about the human rights implications of Brexit. A hard Brexit would have a significant impact on the human rights framework in the UK. This is because UK derives a large portion of its human rights…
Volunteering with the City of London Criminal Appeals Clinic
By Nora Wannagat Nora Wannagat is a UCL LLM student that previously completed a BA in Jurisprudence with Law Studies in Europe at the University of Oxford. In this post, she summarises her experience volunteering for a new project at UCL CAJ this year. The City of London Criminal Appeals Clinic is a new pro bono project…
Working with MIFUMI to abolish the bride price in Uganda
By Sarah Waliwo Kagale Kulubya A first year LLB student at UCL, writes about her experience volunteering with MIFUMI – a women-led organisation based in Uganda that seeks to end domestic violence. Indigenous customary law defines some social and domestic arrangements, namely marriage, in certain Ugandan tribes.[1] However, the rules of customary law perpetuate inequality in…
What impact is capitalism having on Democracy: from an Emile Durkheim functionalist perspective
By Emmanuel Bazimya Emmanuel Bazimya, an LLM student in International Banking and Finance Law at UCL, considers the impact of capitalism on democracy in light of the recent presidential election in the United States. It is a well-established right that individuals in a democracy have the right to information that allows them to make informed…
The Impact of LASPO
By Ila Tyagi An LLM student in International Commercial Law at UCL, writes about the impact of LASPO and summarises the findings of a recent Amnesty International report addressing this issue. The Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) was enacted with the objectives of reducing the government’s expenditure on legal spending…