This week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced its plans to crack down on unregulated legal services following mounting complaints. Indeed, in recent years, there has been a rise in people being ripped off and scammed by will, divorce, and probate firms. In 2021, there were a total of 208,000 unregulated firms handling wills, trusts, and…

In the UK, abortion laws are in the spotlight following Carla Foster’s recent jailing. The mother-of-three induced a late-term abortion with medication intended for use in the first ten weeks of pregnancy. Her sentencing has put abortion laws under the microscope, with many arguing it demonstrates the need for urgent reform and decriminalisation. The current…

In the UK, the number of couples choosing to cohabit is increasing, while marriage is steadily declining. Yet, the country’s legislation does not account for the prevalence of unmarried cohabiting couples. And, despite the popular myths and misconceptions about common law marriage, couples who live together, but are unmarried, are not afforded the same rights…

The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was passed in the Scottish Parliament back in December. The legislation intended to make the process for legally recognising a trans person’s gender more straightforward. However, by January, Westminster made its opposition clear by blocking the bill from receiving royal assent. The Scottish government has vowed to fight the…

For decades, the UK government was steeped in hypocrisy regarding child marriage. Despite condemning it on international shores, it was “thriving” in the United Kingdom as a result of outdated and deeply damaging laws. Campaigners fought for five years to bring an end to child marriage in the UK, resulting in the Marriage and Civil…

Described as a “foot soldier” for ISIS by some and a survivor of grooming and child trafficking by others, Shamima Begum is an individual at the centre of controversy. Back in February 2019, then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid made the decision to remove her citizenship, under the British Nationality Act 1981, on national security grounds, claiming…

Right now, across the UK, the economic situation is dire. Nurses are using foodbanks, the NHS is critically understaffed and underfunded, and thousands are struggling to stay afloat as the cost of living soars. Subsequently, strike action has been taken by a wide cross-section of union workers from different sectors over the last few months,…

The UK’s rental market is in crisis. Private renters in the UK are now spending, on average, 35% of their income on rent, with at least 1.6 million people faced with damp, mouldy, and barely functional housing. A lack of rental controls means that rent prices have now reached record highs, and according to research…

Back in September, the former Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, and staunch Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg, tabled Brexit legislation that would see thousands of individual pieces of EU legislation eradicated. Many had hoped, in vain, that in the wake of his resignation, the bill, too, would get the chop. Legal experts have…

Graham Stuart, Minister for Climate under Truss, recently commented that producing oil and gas domestically is “a good thing” and something that “we should all get behind.” This comment was followed by the government lifting its 2019 ban on fracking, a move which has been met with outrage and disbelief by environmentalists and climate change…