From booby-trapping your home to committing larceny, festive films are full of legal conundrums.
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A legal expert looks at the dozens of laws Father Christmas is likely to be violating.
Raygun is unlikely to be able to claim intellectual property over her name, her persona and her dance moves.
If you’re convicted of sexual abuse, your friends and family can tell the court how good you are, with the hope of a more lenient sentence. There are calls for this to change.
The ideas and movement for the abolition of transatlantic slavery began largely among Africans.
While still a small minority of sexual offenders, abuse perpetrated by women in Australia has increased by more than 200% since 2008. The system isn’t set up to deal with it.
The end of the election season could bring a sigh of relief to businesses.
Hassan Ali, a.k.a Top5, was released after a judge dismissed social media evidence in the case. By treating rap lyrics as confessions, the legal system perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Black men.
Netflix’s productions on the Menendez brothers reveal the moral problem at the heart of true crime: whose definition of “true” should viewers rely on when assessing the veracity of a narrative?
Having little legal success after the last election result, Trump and the Republican Party have learned a lesson: start sowing the seeds of electoral doubt early.
Australia’s patchwork of criminal appeal laws creates an uneven playing field. Here’s what they are and how the system can be made more equitable.
In the age of social media and evolving expert evidence, judge-only trials have become more popular. But there are simple things that can be done to improve and safeguard trials by jury.
The Supreme Court has chosen to exclude from intervention the voices of those directly impacted. This exclusion rehearses Canada’s longer history of excluding sex workers.
Bill Shorten made headlines by suggesting states should adopt a permit system for protests. Here’s what protest legislation looks like nationally and what international laws say about it.
Under current laws in most states and territories, the life of an unborn child is legally indistinguishable from that of the mother.
There’s a widespread belief that people who breach their bail conditions do so deliberately, but the real causes are often much more benign.
International law clearly states that hiding explosives in objects that could be picked up by civilians is strictly prohbited.
A new housing study suggests that eviction records are not merely a reflection of renters’ instability − they are also a cause of it.
Whether the popular video app ends up sold, banned or untouched, the ruling in favor of the government’s national security claims has implications for free speech.
Even after departing this world, artists have plenty of legal tools to protect their creative vision.
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