EPQ

Suggestions for an EPQ

• Prison conditions / prisons in crisis

• Brexit and the legal implications

• The law on driverless cars / other forms of technology such as drones

• Omissions and the criminal law (the limits to when the criminal law will impose liability for a failure to act)

• When causing suicide can amount to murder or manslaughter

• Human trafficking

• Assisted suicide and the law

• Is the new defence of loss of control an improvement on provocation

• The role of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in hearing cases from overseas territories

• The diversity of the judiciary (composition of the judiciary and the reason why this matters)

• Abolition or reform of the jury system

• Alternatives to the use of juries and magistrates in the UK

• Protection of judges from criticism and maintenance of judicial independence

• Killing by gross negligence - looking at the liability of companies for manslaughter

• The Hillsborough Disaster - the legal implications and impact of the case

• Brexit - implications for the UK legal system

• Grenfell Tower

• Revenge Porn

• The Stephen Lawrence Case

• The use of technology in improving justice

• Public Inquiries and Inquests

• Animals and the law

• Law on the Battlefield / prosecuting soldiers for crimes (Northern Ireland)

• The Deepcut Four - the army's legal responsibility to recruits

• The Transmission of disease

• Electoral / voter fraud

• Psychiatric injury and stalking

• The law governing social media - facebook; google; privacy and data protection

• Environmental law and pollution 

• Non-disclosure of evidence and the collapse of criminal trials

• Private Members Bills

• Miscarriages of Justice - wrong what leads to wrongful convictions?

• Asleep at the wheel - the legal implications

• Equal pay for men and women 

• Women in the legal system since 1919

• The withdrawal of medical treatment

• The sentencing of young offenders and use of Referral Orders and Youth Offending Panels

• The voting age

• Age discrimination 

• Terrorism law

• Music and copyright

• British Transport Police - role and powers

• The adversarial trial system vs the inquisitorial system

• Common law v's the continental system of law making

• Medical negligence

• Abortion law

• Drugs and the law

• Firearms law

• Dogs and the law

• Mental health - the legal framework for mental health patients

• Sports and the law - criminal and civil liability

• Parents and Doctors disagreeing about life supporting treatment for terminally ill children

• The Prosecution of FGM