Anyone who’s seen Disney’s The Little Mermaid knows it’s a light-hearted fairytale about a mermaid who sacrifices her voice for true love on dry land.

Right? Wrong.
According to a real-life human lawyer, it is an unfortunate story about a naive 16-year-old rushing into a dodgy legal contract that should have been overturned in an instant, according to the ‘laws of the sea’.
Yes, a legally-qualified Londoner has analysed the contract that witch Ursula makes Ariel sign in exchange for a pair of legs — and she reckons the whole thing… Read the full story