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Landmark reform of weddings law linked to weddings study

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:22:06 GMT

The Government has announced plans to reform weddings law in England and Wales in a move set to completely overhaul how and where couples can marry. This is the biggest change to weddings law in over two hundred years.

Dr Kathryn McMahon on Amazon's Alleged Abuse of Dominance

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:00:00 GMT

Dr Kathryn McMahon comments on UK retailers' class action against Amazon for allegedly using their marketplace data to boost its product sales, at the expense of retailers, in a WIRED.com interview.

Expert Comment: Professor Jacqueline Hodgson on 'Anatomy of a Fall'

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:00:00 GMT

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson provides expert comment on the nuanced aspects of the French criminal justice system depicted in the Oscar-winning film 'Anatomy of a Fall''.

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Foreign Minister Lavrov commends the Open Balkans project - expert comment

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:15:00 GMT

Western Balkans expert Dr Andi HoxhajLink opens in a new window of Warwick Law SchoolLink opens in a new window comments:-

"On Monday 6th June Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov planned to visit Serbia to sign a new three year gas agreement provided by the Russian energy company Gazprom. Under the agreement Serbia would pay approximately $400 per 1,000 cubic meters of Russian natural gas — almost four times less than other European countries pay."

Expert Comment: IMF extends debt service relief for 25 low-income countries

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:36:59 GMT

Dr Celine Tan of Warwick Law School comments: "The release of the fifth and final tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) will be a small but limited contribution to alleviating the debt crisis developing countries are facing in the wake of COVID-19.

Expert Comment: International Development Committee calls for easier access to ‘climate finance’ funds

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:51:00 GMT

The House of Commons International Development Committee has published a new report, Global Britain in demand: UK climate action and international development around COP26. Dr Celine Tan, Reader in Warwick Law School comments on the climate finance aspects of this, and the UK COP26 Presidency's Climate Finance Delivery Plan, published yesterday.

Expert Comment: WHO calls for moratorium on boosters

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:19:00 GMT

The Law School's global health ethics expert Dr Sharifah Sekalala, comments on the WHO's call for a moratorium on administering booster jabs of Covid-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first dose.

Vanessa Munro quoted in The Guardian

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Warwick Law School’s Professor Munro has contributed to an article in The Guardian newspaper on the truth about the hidden number of suicides amongst domestic abuse victims. The findings are linked to her recent research and work with the charity Refuge.

Dallal Stevens comments on UK asylum overhaul

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:18:00 GMT

The UK government's Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has today announced a new system for people seeking asylum in Britain. Professor Dallal Stevens, an expert on asylum, claims much of what she is proposing is either (a) inaccurate, (b) unrealistic, (c) existed previously or (d) unlikely to achieve her goals.

Human rights law can provide a transparent and fair framework for vaccine allocations

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:58:14 GMT

As Governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers led by Dr Sharifah Sekalala of Warwick Law School propose that existing human rights legal principles should guide their thinking.