James Orr: The Politics of Weirdness. Plus the Demise of Assisted Dying, Never Ending Public Inquiries, and Hermer’s Legacy Undone
In the wake of the Metropolitan Police’s announcement that it’s Special Enquiry Team has expanded its criminal investigation into donations made to Reform UK by Fiona Cottrell, the mother of “Posh” Ge...
16 Sep 48min
Inside the Reform UK Undercover Investigation: First Interview with Verbatim’s Legal Advisor
Is the Verbatim Investigations/C4 film which shows senior (now ex) Reform UK officials apparently engaged in procuring illegal foreign donations to the Party a “hoax”, as Nigel Farage and Robert Jenri...
9 Sep 41min
The Prisoner Release Scheme: Lurching From One Crisis to Another? Plus The Fatal Immorality of Mark Zuckerberg.
The failure of successive Conservative governments to build sufficient prison capacity to accommodate the growing prison population handed Labour a criminal justice crisis which demanded urgent action...
2 Sep 40min
Re-Release | David Gauke: Solving the UK Prison Crisis
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 normal. But rather than skip an episode altogether we t...
26 Aug 44min
Listeners’ Postbag: Releasing PC Harper’s Killers, New Ministers, and the French Way of Dying
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, is an act of political desperation given the data sh...
19 Aug 35min
Making Sense of Murder: The Law Commission Proposes Radical Reforms to UK Homicide Law
The Law Commission for England and Wales is currently consulting on reform of the antiquated common law of homicide (murder and manslaughter) with a view to addressing long-standing criticisms that th...
12 Aug 36min
Andy Burnham, Law and UK Justice: What’s in Store?
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 of David Lammy, Lord Hermer KC, Baroness Levitt KC...
29 Jul 40min
Losing Control of AI Under Trump: Will the EU Fight Back? Plus the Court of Appeal Turns on the Attorney General
In this episode of Double Jeopardy, the 12th June decision of the Trump administration to issue an export control directive forcing AI giant Anthropic to suspend access to its new AI tool Fable 5 "by ...
22 Jul 47min
