The Law Show Podcast
The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.
Weekly conversation that will give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it's unpicking a landmark legal ruling, explaining how laws are made or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.
Episodes to download
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Human Rights: Reforming the Law
Tue 28 Jun 2022
Can the UK Bill of Rights be compatible with international law?
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Why do so few rape cases go to court?
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Explaining the barriers to conviction at every stage of the criminal justice system.
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Investigating War Crimes in Ukraine
Tue 14 Jun 2022
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan QC speaks about the challenges facing investigators in Ukraine.
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The Justice Secretary's Plans
Tue 22 Mar 2022
Dominic Raab and legal aid. And do we need more diversity among senior judges?
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Libel tourism
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Has silencing journalists with libel claims now become harder? And: new UK class actions.
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Gender recognition
Tue 8 Mar 2022
Is Scotland's Gender Recognition bill a progressive step forward, or a threat to women?
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Ukraine: war and law
Tue 1 Mar 2022
How does international criminal law regard Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
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Trial and error
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Joshua Rozenberg examines a lawsuit that鈥榮 rocked the sport of rugby.
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Judges in Jeopardy
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Joshua Rozenberg speaks to Afghan women judges at risk since the Taliban came to power.
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E-scooting through the law
Tue 22 Jun 2021
What's legal for e-scooters; space law; university freedom of speech and a DJ barrister.
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Covid penalties
Tue 15 Jun 2021
Unfair Covid fines, online justice, diversity in the profession, and private prosecutions.
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Traumatic brain injury and crime
Tue 8 Jun 2021
Brain injury is related to crime and is common among prisoners. But how to deal with it?
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Fighting knife crime
Tue 1 Jun 2021
Fighting knife crime before it happens; Scotland's "not proven" verdicts; automated cars.
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Reforming Judicial Review
Tue 23 Mar 2021
Does the government's response to Lord Faulks's report on Judicial Review go too far?
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Can the law fight climate change?
Tue 16 Mar 2021
As governments and fossil fuel companies are being sued, can the law fight climate change?
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Exclusive interview with the lawyer of Anne Sacoolas
Tue 9 Mar 2021
Amy Jeffress, the US lawyer of Anne Sacoolas, speaks exclusively to Joshua Rozenberg.
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Civil Justice for Harry Dunn?
Tue 2 Mar 2021
The civil claim in the Anne Sacoolas case, and how is the pandemic affecting jury trials?
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Jack Merritt's legacy
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Remembering Jack Merritt, murdered in the London Bridge attack a year ago.
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Good advice
Tue 10 Nov 2020
How the UK鈥檚 first law centre still provides free legal advice, 50 years after its birth.
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Fire Courts
Tue 3 Nov 2020
What can the Great Fire of London teach us about dealing with our current pandemic?
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The International Criminal Court
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Is the International Criminal Court beset by incompetence, or a lifeline for victims?
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Reinventing the law
Tue 16 Jun 2020
Joshua Rozenberg asks if new ways of working can deliver justice at a time of crisis.
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Gambling with the law
Tue 9 Jun 2020
How a case about a 拢7.7 million win at baccarat changed the legal test of dishonesty.
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements: pragmatic but unprincipled?
Tue 26 May 2020
Why is large-scale fraud so hard to prosecute? Joshua Rozenberg investigates.
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Workplace law
Tue 17 Mar 2020
How good are employment tribunals at resolving disputes between employers and staff?
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An Enterprising Court
Tue 10 Mar 2020
A look inside the commercial court, one of the UK鈥檚 most successful invisible exports.
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Supporting evidence
Tue 3 Mar 2020
The unique sensory room designed to put child witnesses with autism at their ease.
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