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The Legal Launch Pad is a structured nine-month (January to September) intensive training, networking and mentoring programme open to those studying for a legal career. 

HMRC will host two open days in December. These events are for graduates and undergraduates who want to find out more about the work of lawyers and trainees in HMRC.

Academics from the OU and the University of Exeter are collaborating in a project to explore the vows, rituals, music and readings used in civil weddings.

Great news has been issued by the good people of the British government to all those EU citizens living in the UK feeling uncertain about their future after Brexit – they could soon qualify for “settled status”. What they must do now, however, is wait.

A full year after the EU referendum, the British prime minister has finally issued a statement on the status of the 3m European citizens living in the UK. Now that a statement has finally been made, they are supposed to feel reassured.

Cate Turner and Karie Matthews were presented with their awards for being the highest achieving students of 2016 by leading EU judge, Sir Nicholas Forwood QC, and Head of The Open University Law School, Paul Catley.

Governance needs to be about more than a set of rules. But behaviour is not easy to change, writes Professor Simon Lee.

The House of Lords may have backed an amendment to protect the rights of EU nationals after Brexit, but the level of fear among nationals of other EU countries about their future has hit new highs.

The Six Nations match between England and Italy at Twickenham on February 26 created quite a stir. Not so much for the quality of the rugby, but for a tactic adopted by the Italian team which appeared to catch England completely off guard for the best part of the first half.