Could an autonomous AI hold legal rights, owe legal duties or become responsible when things go wrong? Drawing on Imogen Rivers' Oxford research, JSH Law examines robot rights, lethal autonomous weapons, responsibility gaps and the danger of allowing artificial personhood to become a liability shield for humans.

In Re E [2026] EWCA Civ 1167, the Court of Appeal held that a Special Guardianship Order placing a child permanently outside the birth family could not be approached as a simple welfare choice. JSH Law explains why threshold, factual findings, necessity and proportionality matter.

Domestic-abuse evidence is often fragmented across police, health records, schools, Cafcass and digital communications. Drawing on Robert Kaiser's work on behavioural trajectories and Escalation Pattern Analysis, JSH Law examines how chronology, patterns and changing behaviour could be made more visible in Family Court evidence — without turning an emerging research framework into an unsupported risk assessment.