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Afua Hirsch's law blog

  • Nicolas Granatino and Katrin Radmacher at the supreme court.

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    The German heiress and the prenup: the case that keeps on giving

    Afua Hirsch: Just when you thought the most talked-about supreme court case of last year was over, there's more

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    Time for the sharia courts to open up

    Afua Hirsch: The Guardian's unprecedented filming of sharia court proceedings shows that more transparency would benefit everyone

  • Keir Starmer QC

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    Rape and crimes against the disabled: the state admits it should do more

    Afua Hirsch: The law officers and the director of public prosecutions both try to remedy a problem

  • Muammar Gaddafi

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    No redress on Gaddafi asset seizure

    Afua Hirsch: The unusual moves to seize Gaddafi's assets do not provide for any form of challenge
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    double quotation markDivorce is messy. Sometimes mediation won't work

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    Afua Hirsch: The government's plans to force warring couples to talk fail to take on board the complexity of marital breakdown

  • Halle Berry and model Gabriel Aubry at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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    Race, adoption and the political roundabout

    Afua Hirsch: Guidelines on interracial adoption are nothing new but the real question lies with the law

  • Prison inmate

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    The MPs voting against prisoners, and 21st century civic death

    Afua Hirsch: Giving prisoners the vote might be unpopular, but defying the European court of human rights would be criminal

  • MDG: Africa Justice Foundation

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    A new initiative to promote law in Africa demands closer scrutiny

    Afua Hirsch: The Africa Justice Foundation's desire to strengthen the continent's legal systems is laudable. But a focus on investment and natural resources during its launch event did it no favours
  • The Good Wife

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    David, Goliath and the case that never was

    Afua Hirsch: The Epilim case shows the gap between our ideals about holding large corporations to account, and reality

  • Domestic violence

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    Domestic violence moves beyond the physical

    Afua Hirsch: As Hounslow council showed this week, authorities are seeking to protect resources by arguing for the narrowest definition of what domestic violence actually is

  • Alassane Ouattara, right, Ivory Coast's president-elect, meets with ambassadors

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    Ivory Coast: the chocolate brief

    Afua Hirsch: Lawyers are helping the winner of Ivory Coast's elections starve the regime of chocolate revenue and end the country's election crisis

  • Ken Clarke's windswept look.

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    Parliament is a sausage-machine: the world according to Kenneth Clarke

    Afua Hirsch: The balance of power in the constitution is no joke, but it's still hard to take the lord chancellor seriously

  • Mark Kennedy

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    Mark Kennedy and the strange case of undercover sex

    Afua Hirsch: Undercover police investigations are one thing, but having sex with suspects is quite another

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    double quotation markConviction shows inconvenient truth of flawed justice

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    Hillary Swank film about woman who fought brother's murder conviction reminds us what it means to condemn the innocent
  • Esther Addley's tweet on the use of twitter.

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    The dilemmas of courtroom tweeting

    Afua Hirsch: Journalists reporting trials using Twitter need to balance between keeping readers gripped and not giving away too much

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    double quotation markThe Julian Assange case: a mockery of extradition?

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    Afua Hirsch: The European arrest warrant is being used to have thousands of people flown out to face charges that wouldn't stick in the UK

  • Julian Assange

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    Julian Assange's extradition: what happens next?

    There are legal obstacles for every politician itching to put the WikiLeaks founder on trial
  • Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks

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    Julian Assange's legal team will fight extradition

    Afua Hirsch: Once a European arrest warrant is validated, Assange's arrest would be inevitable and he be brought before a magistrate

  • US Supreme Court

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    Has the Tea Party infiltrated the US supreme court?

    Afua Hirsch: The wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has been in the headlines, but it's her political activities that should really raise eyebrows

  • 2 Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton

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    William and Kate – the prince, the princess and the prenups

    Afua Hirsch: Now that the speculation about a royal wedding is over, the speculation about a royal prenup begins

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