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Back to SearchLucy Letby and the Thirlwall Inquiry: Was it Premature?
Episode 166
The publication of Lady Justice Thirlwall’s Report of the Public Inquiry into the Events at the Countess of Chester Hospital 2015-2018 (https://thi…
13 hours ago
James Orr: The Politics of Weirdness. Plus the Demise of Assisted Dying, Never Ending Public Inquiries, and Hermer’s Legacy Undone
Episode 165
In the wake of the Metropolitan Police’s announcement that it’s Special Enquiry Team has expanded its criminal investigation into donations made to R…
1 week ago
Inside the Reform UK Undercover Investigation: First Interview with Verbatim’s Legal Advisor
Episode 164
Is the Verbatim Investigations/C4 film which shows senior (now ex) Reform UK officials apparently engaged in procuring illegal foreign donations to t…
2 weeks ago
The Prisoner Release Scheme: Lurching From One Crisis to Another? Plus The Fatal Immorality of Mark Zuckerberg.
Episode 163
The failure of successive Conservative governments to build sufficient prison capacity to accommodate the growing prison population handed Labour a c…
3 weeks ago
Re-Release | David Gauke: Solving the UK Prison Crisis
Episode 162
With co-hosts Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC travelling in widely separated time zones, it’s proved impossible to record the weekly episode as norm…
4 weeks ago
Listeners’ Postbag: Releasing PC Harper’s Killers, New Ministers, and the French Way of Dying
Episode 161
Andy Burnham’s decision to pause the emergency early release scheme in order to ensure that the killers of PC Andrew Harper do not benefit from it, i…
1 month ago
Making Sense of Murder: The Law Commission Proposes Radical Reforms to UK Homicide Law
Episode 160
The Law Commission for England and Wales is currently consulting on reform of the antiquated common law of homicide (murder and manslaughter) with a …
1 month, 1 week ago
Andy Burnham, Law and UK Justice: What’s in Store?
Episode 159
The Burnham purge of the Cabinet has resulted in radical personnel changes in the Ministry of Justice and among the Law Officers, with the departures…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Losing Control of AI Under Trump: Will the EU Fight Back? Plus the Court of Appeal Turns on the Attorney General
Episode 158
In this episode of Double Jeopardy, the 12th June decision of the Trump administration to issue an export control directive forcing AI giant Anthropi…
2 months ago
Prince Harry versus The Daily Mail: Whitewash or Fiasco?
Episode 157
Reaction to the damning judgment handed down by Mr Justice Nicklin on 7th July (https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/lawrence-and-others-v associated-n…
2 months, 1 week ago