December 2020

• Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations
  Matthew Renshaw and Lauren Chaplin discuss the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, which provides guidelines for using open-source intelligence (OSINT) in criminal and human rights investigations, and consider how law firms should adapt to OSINT’s potential. 22 December 2020
• Corporate pledges to address racial inequality: a cause of action?
  Oliver Holland and Walker Syachalinga discuss the effects of corporate pledges in the wake of the Black Lives Matter campaign. 21 December 2020
• Coronavirus on the frontline: how the pandemic has left Addison Lee Drivers vulnerable
  Private hire drivers have been on the frontline helping to keep the UK going during Coronavirus. Here, solicitor Liana Wood discusses how the pandemic has left Addison Lee drivers exposed. 18 December 2020
• Personal injury rehabilitation – steps to take for seriously injured clients
  David Preston explains the importance of personal injury rehabilitation and how it is managed during the personal injury claim process. 16 December 2020
• Looming emissions controversy for PHEVs
  Shazia Yamin and Lucy Martin discuss revelations that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) may not be emitting the low levels of polluting gases that consumers had been promised. 15 December 2020
• ​Prison service must strike a better balance on the use of handcuffs on prisoners in hospital
  Benjamin Burrows and Ellie Sutherland discuss the use of handcuffs on prisoners accessing hospital treatment and argue that it is a balance that the prison service is repeatedly getting wrong. 14 December 2020
• Politics and reproductive health
  “Treating abortion as a modern healthcare procedure and women as equal partners in their own care is where we need to get to…we must not settle for just defending what we already have.”
  
  Rachael Clarke, British Pregnancy Advisory Service 14 December 2020
• Human rights issues highlighted by COVID-19
  On Human Rights Day, Kate Egerton, Aisha Asghar and Abi Joseph look at how human rights are more important than ever in protecting our basic rights and freedoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic 10 December 2020
• Allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccine
  Zahra Nanji discusses the latest development in the roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine against COVID-19. 9 December 2020
• Review of gambling laws announced by government
  Nichola Marshall and Paula Lee discuss the announcement of the government review of gambling laws. 8 December 2020
• “Healing crystals” with a trail of exploitation and violence
  Rebecca Swan discusses the ethics of buying into the craze for “healing crystals” that could have been mined by children or be helping to finance war and terror. 4 December 2020
• Vaccine producers given immunity from civil liability
  Zahra Nanji considers the latest announcement following the UK licensing of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. 4 December 2020
• Where does Arcadia collapse leave holders of gift vouchers?
  Jill Paterson offers guidance to owners of Arcadia gift vouchers, in the wake of the collapse of the retail chain. 3 December 2020
• International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
  On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, Liana Wood reflects on what more needs to be done to protect victims of trafficking and forced labour in the UK 2 December 2020
• Time to stand together: AML, the SRA and YOU
  Gideon Habel looks at why it is important for legal professionals to police themselves and each other in order to stand together with the AML and the SRA. 1 December 2020
• Review into claims of sexual harassment and misconduct at Royal Academy of Music
  Alison Millar discusses the background to an independent review into safeguarding at the Royal Academy of Music and the conclusions it has reached. 1 December 2020