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Back to SearchCan Sir Brian Leveson Save the Criminal Justice System?
Episode 136
The second Part of Sir Brian Leveson’s Independent Review of the Criminal Courts was published last week but largely overlooked in light of the Mande…
7 months, 1 week ago
SLAPPS, Filibustering Death, and Juries
Episode 135
What is the future of anti-SLAPP laws in the UK? And what are the implications of the recent High Court Judgment in Hurst v Solicitors Regulation Au…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Why The Lammy Jury Reforms Won’t Work
Episode 134
Are the Government’s plans to reduce the shameful backlog of some 80,000 cases awaiting trial in the Crown Court built on sand? Is the prediction in …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Listeners’ Mailbag: Tariffs, Hunger Strikes and Undermining the Parole Board
Episode 133
In this week’s episode Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC discuss a wide range of issues affecting UK law and politics and answer some listeners’ quest…
8 months ago
Venezuela, Greenland and The Donroe Doctrine: Power without Law
Episode 132
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says of President Trump that “the part he likes about the phrase ‘Donroe Doctrine” is the word ‘Don’ - …
8 months, 1 week ago
UK Law and Politics 2025-2026: What’s Happened and What’s Coming Next
Episode 131
To start the New Year, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined once again by the UK’s leading legal journalist and author of the daily blog, A La…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 2- Empire, Neglect and the Dilemma of the Pitcairn Sex Trials
Episode 130
In Part 2 of their discussion with retired New Zealand High Court Judge and former Chief Crown Prosecutor for Auckland, Simon Moore KC, Ken Macdonald…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 1- Blazing a Trail for Criminal Justice Reform
Episode 129
In Part 1 of a special holiday release of Double Jeopardy, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined by the former New Zealand High Court Judge and…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Mr Lammy Goes to Strasbourg- and our Christmas Listeners’ Postbag on Jury Reforms
Episode 128
As the UK joins 26 other Council of Europe States in calling for a rebalancing of the European Convention on Human Rights as between the individual r…
9 months, 1 week ago
Swapping Judges For Juries: Will This Really Be Swifter And Fairer?
Episode 127
Are the Government’s proposals radically to reduce a citizen’s right to trial by jury a “swift and fair plan to get justice for victims”, as the MoJ …
9 months, 1 week ago