Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhen Justice Goes Rogue: Can the Criminal Cases Review Commission do its Job?
Episode 156
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is a vital cog in the UK legal system but both before and after the catalogue of failures in handling of …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Memories of Brexit, the Palestine Action Appeal, and Reforming the Law of Homicide
Episode 155
With the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum upon us, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC begin the episode with a reminder of actor Danny Dyer’s…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Free Speech, SLAPPs, and the Public Interest. Plus- Keir Departs
Episode 154
Last week two parallel Private Bills were introduced in the House of Commons and House of Lords by Baroness Stowell of Beeston and Sir John Whittingd…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Listeners’ Postbag: The Fordingbridge Rapes, Jeremy Bamber, and Palestine Action
Episode 153
The last three episodes of Double Jeopardy covering the media ban on convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber, the Fordingbridge rape sentences and the murde…
3 months ago
The Murder of Henry Nowak
The bodycam footage released by the Hampshire Constabulary following the conviction of Vickrum Singh Digwa depicts the moments immediately following …
3 months, 1 week ago
The Fordingbridge Rape Sentences: The Dilemma of Sentencing Children for Serious Crime.
Episode 151
The non-custodial Youth Rehabilitation Orders handed down by Judge Nicholas Rowland at Southampton Crown Court on 21st May 2026 on 3 teenage boys (ag…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Jeremy Bamber and a Free Press: UK Justice Turns Out the Lights
Episode 150
Why has the Prison Service banned the convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber from any contact with the media, whether by letter, email, phone calls or face…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Road to Chisinau - Politics and the ECHR plus Tackling State Threats to the UK
Episode 149
After a year of political pressure from a growing number of Member States concerned to counter populist anti-ECHR rhetoric over asylum, illegal migra…
4 months ago
Failing to Face Down Fraud: Does the SFO Have a Future?
Episode 144
Is the Serious Fraud Office “on the ropes” as the headline in a recent Financial Times article declared? Was the former anti-corruption tsar Ken Clar…
4 months, 1 week ago
AI, Hallucinations, and the Law
Episode 147
How far away is the reality of an artificial "legal brain” thanks to the extraordinary speed of developments in AI? With the CEOs of the key frontier…
4 months, 2 weeks ago