The ‘disappearance’ of Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the Mental Capacity Act 2005

The Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is an interdisciplinary discussion forum promoting debate on topical socio-legal issues and empirical research methodology.

A conference to celebrate the work of Professor Charles Mitchell KC (Hon) FBA on his retirement

Alan Bennett’s fourth collection of diaries and prose: poignant, funny, contemplative, as he records life both personal and political in his most distinct of voices.

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Truth is a social system. Sorry.

Reforming the law

'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY 'As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect' Daily Express BAFTA-winning actor, voice of ev...

The Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is an interdisciplinary discussion forum promoting debate on topical socio-legal issues and empirical research methodology.

A perennial dilemma for succession law is how to balance two, potentially competing, considerations: the desire to maximise ‘testamentary freedom’ (the ability to determine the destination of one’s property on death) on the one hand, and the need to protect vulnerable will-makers from the effects of incapacity, coercion and fraud.

Speaker: Dr Maitena Arakistain Arriola (Assistant Professor in Civil Law, University of the Basque Country; Visiting Fellow CFL; Bye Fellow, Robinson College) Can the pro-contact culture that prevails in the justice system in child arrangement cases be changed through legislative reform? This is exactly what the Spanish legislator tried to do in 2021 when he amended the Civil Code to introduce a no-contact rule in cases of gendered-based violence. Now the presumption is that there will be no contact unless proven to be in the child’s best interests. Has it worked? The number of cases where unsafe contact is still awarded by the courts suggests that it has not, or, at least, not yet. In this seminar we will look at the position under Spanish Law and we will examine some of the arguments used to avoid the new no-contact rule. For more information about the Faculty Family Law Centre (CFL), see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/

Speaker: Dr Maitena Arakistain Arriola (Assistant Professor in Civil Law, University of the Basque Country; Visiting Fellow CFL; Bye Fellow, Robinson College) Can the pro-contact culture that

Speaker: Dr Maitena Arakistain Arriola (Assistant Professor in Civil Law, University of the Basque Country; Visiting Fellow CFL; Bye Fellow, Robinson College) Can the pro-contact culture that

‘The law of succession has always been, and will continue to be, of tremendous societal importance. Nonetheless, for quite some time, it has been neglected in academic writing. The present volume, how...

The Faculty of Law and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge are seeking to appoint an appropriately qualified individual to a one-year Assistant Professorship in Equity and Trusts from 1

Autorías: Manuel Espejo Lerdo de Tejada, Sergio Cámara Lapuente, Juan Pablo Murga Fernández, Macarena Diéguez Morán. Editor: Aranzadi La Ley. Año de publicación: 2026. Libro en Dialnet.

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Welcome to SCOUTSblog’s newest recurring series, in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. For our debut column, we […]