The connection between drugs and cars is quite a close one. It always has been according to one view. Both provide dangerous, perhaps life-threatening thrills, if illegitimately used and both make modern life without them unthinkable, if not necessarily unbearable. It is perhaps for these reasons that a kind of delicious irony accompanies road signs […]
A favourite question for criminal law students is ‘can a woman rape a man?’ Curiously the answer is yes, no and maybe! Physically, a woman cannot rape a man because of the how the offence is defined in law. Rape, in English law, requires a penis to be inserted into a woman’s vagina, anus or […]
I recently acted for a couple who adopted a relative, in “private proceedings” as opposed to state driven proceedings. The couple were adopting the child because this is what they all genuinely wanted, not because the state had deemed it necessary or even desirable. I decided to attend what is known as the “celebration hearing” […]
