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...law?...[Donald Trump gets a briefing on his missile strike on Syria] Donald Trump and his cabinet squeeze into a country club room for a briefing on the Syrian airstrikes The US airstrike against a Syrian air force base on April 7 was the first action of the new Donald Trump’s administration to attract widespread support, garnering positive responses even from critics....

...law cases and why they matter...CTB v News Group Newspapers Limited and Imogen Thomas Does the right to freedom of expression and information prevail over a right to privacy? Not always, as shown in this animation about anonymised injunctions… Transcript Lloyds Bank plc v Rosset If you are unmarried and living with your partner in a property, do you have an interest in...

...law allowing an independence referendum to be held. But the crucial word here is “temporarily”. While the Scottish parliament had the right to pass the 2013 Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013, that right was quickly transferred back to London after the 2014 vote. Now in 2017, the terrain is very different. The UK government was quick to dismiss Sturgeon’s...

...laws like this threaten ordinary Internet users' rights, by giving private intermediaries incentives to delete perfectly lawful online expression. [Watching you: a giant picture of an eye on a stand above a bicycle rack] Eyes everywhere? The good news is that the Commission won’t revise the EU’s core intermediary liability law, the eCommerce Directive. That Directive...

...law says when the spooky season’s guests don’t return to their graves and why even the undead can be trespassers...Halloween, as well as being a religious celebration, is a time of fun and high jinks, and a lot of unnatural occurrences happen that do not occur at other times of the year. For instance, skeletons and dead bodies return from their graves, and ghouls and...

...laws in the United Kingdom. But there's sometimes a delay before the new law comes into force...[Queen Elizabeth II] What is Royal Assent? Royal Assent is when the monarch formally assents to a Bill (a piece of prospective legislation that has already been approved by Parliament) in order for it to pass into law. Once Royal Assent has been given the Bill is an Act of...