The Fordingbridge Rape Sentences: The Dilemma of Sentencing Children for Serious Crime.
The non-custodial Youth Rehabilitation Orders handed down by Judge Nicholas Rowland at Southampton Crown Court on 21st May 2026 on 3 teenage boys (aged 14 and 13 at the date of their crimes) for the g...
3 Juni 43min
Jeremy Bamber and a Free Press: UK Justice Turns Out the Lights
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 to face visits? And is such a ban lawful? Bamber w...
27 Maj 49min
The Road to Chisinau - Politics and the ECHR plus Tackling State Threats to the UK
After a year of political pressure from a growing number of Member States concerned to counter populist anti-ECHR rhetoric over asylum, illegal migration and deportation of foreign criminals, the 46 m...
20 Maj 42min
Failing to Face Down Fraud: Does the SFO Have a Future?
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 Clarke right in 2014 when he told SFO Director David Gr...
13 Maj 41min
Iran - Trump’s Permanent War?
On 21st April, almost two months since the US launched Operation Epic Fury “to destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy Iran’s navy and other security infrastruc...
7 Maj 43min
AI, Hallucinations, and the Law
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 labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind) predicting that...
7 Maj 49min
Mandelson’s Vetting in Wonderland, and Victory for the Assisted Dying Filibuster
With numerous former senior civil servants attacking Keir Starmer for his decision to sack Sir Olly Robbins – former Cabinet Secretary Lord Gus O'Donnell says the sacking “risks having a serious and s...
22 Apr 35min
Kathleen Stock on the Right to Die, Freedom, Death, and Mercy
With Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill apparently doomed to extinction thanks to the co-ordinated efforts of a handful of Peers determined to ensure it cannot complete scrutiny...
15 Apr 46min
