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The Open University’s Open Justice team has collaborated with charity Support Through Court (STC) to launch a free open online resource for learners, themed around domestic abuse. Its timely launch coincides with the rapid rise in numbers of people in domestic abuse situations seeking help during the UK lockdown.

The Open University Law School’s Open Justice team is holding a 90-minute online workshop designed to advise industry colleagues who need to teach clinical legal education online.

An OU researcher calls for a change to regulations around civil wedding ceremonies so that more people can get married simply and inexpensively, and to avoid COVID-19 backlogs.

Wolf-whistling, catcalling and groping make up just some of the intimidating behaviour that women experience every day from men. But there is an attempt underway in the UK parliament that seeks to protect women from this kind of “acceptable” misogyny.

Two Law academics are developing educational resources related to becoming a barrister having been awarded nearly £21,00 by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

The Open University has seen a spike in visitors to its free online learning platform OpenLearn to access its health, wellbeing and educational content in a time of huge societal need.

A new online course produced by The Open University in collaboration with the charity LawCare, FitForLaw: Emotional Competence and Professional Resilience, has been promoted with launch events throughout the UK.

Law School academic Dr Olga Jurasz and Dr Kim Barker from the University of Stirling consider the recent proposal by the Scottish Government to introduce a new standalone offence of misogynistic harassment.

Suits, Law and Order and the Good Wife portray law as a glamorous, dynamic and glitzy profession, but what is it really like working for a law firm? Is the reality a little less New York City skyscraper and more about the long hours and personal sacrifice required by lawyers?

Two Law School academics have created a biographical timeline of the first female judges as a free resource on digital learning platform OpenLearn.