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The Legal Debates
The Legal Debates
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The sharpest minds from law, media and politics debate topical issues connecting the law and wider society. Watch the debates below and make up your own mind on where you stand.
Previous debates
Are sanctions fair?
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Are sanctions bringing governments the results the envisaged? Are they still an effective diplomatic tool? And, are sanctions imposed fairly?
Post Brexit: City Talent
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By the time Britain leaves the EU, will professional services firms and financial institutions have relocated their workforce?
Breached election promises
![The judiciary, not just parliament, must address breached election promises](/content/dam/openweb/images/uk-legal-solutions/video/16-9/legal-debates-election-promises.jpg.transform/q90/image.jpg)
The judiciary, not just parliament, must address breached election promises
AI legal impact
![AI will fail to have a radical impact on the legal profession](/content/dam/openweb/images/uk-legal-solutions/video/16-9/legal-debates-ai.jpg.transform/q90/image.jpg)
AI will fail to have a radical impact on the legal profession
Brexit: London bankers
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Would a ‘Brexit’ be bad news for London’s bankers and lawyers?
London safe from terror?
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Do our laws keep London safe from terror?
Post Brexit: Tax haven
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Post Brexit: Tax haven status will make Britain great again!
ECHR
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European Court of Human Rights is Undermining Democracy
Free citizens
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Don't Free Citizens Need the Right to be Forgotten?
Corporate Death Penalty
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Corporate Death Penalty Would Stop Companies From Breaking the Law
‘Uberification’?
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Should the law be used to stop ‘Uberification’?