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Joshua Rozenberg presents Radio 4's long-running legal magazine programme, featuring reports and discussion on matters relating to law
The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s Restoring Order and Control policy is underway. It's based - in part - on measures carried out in Denma...
Under international law, when can a country declare war on another? Was it legal for Israel and the United States to have carried out "pre-e...
The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says she makes “no apology” for announcing the roll-out of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) to all the polic...
The courts system in England and Wales is in an unprecedented crisis. The backlog has reached 80,000 cases, and some defendants are being to...
The former US ambassador Peter Mandelson is on bail after being arrested on suspicion of Misconduct in Public Office. Police have been inves...
Politically motivated attacks on the legal profession in the UK have led to barristers, solicitors, advocates and judges being subjected to...
When the Labour government came to power in 2024, it faced a crisis in the criminal courts, with ever-longer delays and a growing backlog of...
Immigration has dominated headlines for months, but what UK laws cover this most emotive of issues? When someone arrives here, what are the...
The phrase “State related deaths” might mean little to the average person, but it's an umbrella term referring to a death in custody or a me...
The Victims and Courts Bill is progressing through Parliament, and will force convicted criminals to attend their sentencing hearings. If cr...
Wrongful convictions in the Post Office scandal and for train fare evasion have been described by the Government as ‘catastrophic failures’,...
What legal responsibilities does a company have to keep your data secure? M&S, and the Co-op are picking up the pieces after their systems w...
When someone passes away - legally, what do you have to do? In this episode, Dr Joelle Grogan and guests look at the host of legal obligatio...
Justice delayed is justice denied - the court backlog in England and Wales has reached a record high and suspects being charged with new off...
Since the October 7th attacks by Hamas on Israel, and the IDF military invasion of the Gaza strip, terms like 'war crimes', 'crimes against...
Lucy Letby is serving 15 whole-life sentences after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the C...
A parliamentary inquiry has just started work into the law around Joint enterprise. Joint enterprise is contentious because if a person is s...
The job of the Criminal Cases Review Commission - or CCRC - is to investigate cases where people may have been wrongfully convicted of a cri...
Last year, more than a quarter of a million cases started in Family Court in England and Wales. Yet, to most people, the way they work is a...
In this new series of the Law Show, Dr Joelle Grogan and guests look at the legislation that affects your life. One of the flagship pieces o...
Weekly conversation led by Dr Joelle Grogan to give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions tha...
Weekly conversation led by Dr Joelle Grogan about the law stories making the news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on every...
Weekly conversation led by Dr Joelle Grogan about the law stories making the news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on every...
Weekly conversation led by Dr Joelle Grogan that gives you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making the news and the legal decisi...
It’s a practical guide to navigating the law. Each week Joelle will be joined by a family of experts to offer in-depth understanding of the...
Dame Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, is the first Lady Chief Justice, the first woman to hold the role. She gives her first b...
Following a Court of Appeal ruling this week about a case referred to the senior judges by the Attorney General, those charged with criminal...
How do we prevent young people from becoming involved in knife crime? Joshua speaks to 'Jay' who began carrying a knife in his early teens b...
The Post Office scandal is one of the UK's most widespread miscarriages of justice, with hundreds of people wrongfully convicted of theft or...
Can juries acquit a defendant as a matter of conscience? For example, if people are accused of causing criminal damage as part of a protest,...
What if someone uses AI to create a fake version of your voice for their own aims? Recently, the actor, broadcaster and writer Stephen Fry f...
Last week, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee published a wide-ranging report about sentencing and public opinion. On the one han...
Following the events of the 7th October in which around 1400 people were killed in Israel and over 200 taken hostage, Israel has been striki...
The new Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk KC MP speaks to Joshua Rozenberg. How does he respond to criticisms le...
Is the Parole Board getting it right with prisoner releases? Last year, the then Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Dominic...
The law is having to deal with new challenges due to climate change. Is it a human right to be protected from global warming? Do the 46 memb...
Conviction rates for rape trials are lower than those for other criminal trials, and the court experience can be intrusive and harrowing for...
For a special edition recorded on location in Belfast, Joshua Rozenberg returns to Northern Ireland 25 years after the signing of the Good F...
New evidence shows that if a rape case actually comes to court, then - despite popular perceptions - juries are more likely to convict than...
There are strikes again this week, by junior doctors, and train and tube drivers. The government's Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) bill aim...
A year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Joshua asks Attorney General Victoria Prentis MP and Professor Philippe Sands KC how the law can...
The international lawyer Robert Spano, originally from Iceland, has just completed his nine-year stint as a judge at the European Court of H...
Is the UK on a collision course with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg? So far the UK's relationship with the ECHR has been a...
Climate change activists have caused a lot of disruption over the past year, and recently also made headlines with stunts like throwing toma...
The government is currently committed to a bonfire of laws which were inherited from the EU after Brexit - including things like the right t...
How can a court decide that a young woman is to have medical treatment without her knowledge or that of her mother or guardian? The Court of...
Prison education is “chaotic”, says the House of Commons Education Select Committee, and often “inadequate” says Ofsted. Yet, if done right,...
Can the proposed British Bill of Rights be compatible with international law? Joshua Rozenberg speaks to Mark Elliott, Professor of Public L...
Explaining the barriers to conviction at every stage of the criminal justice system. Prosecutions for the crime have declined by 40% over th...
"We can't conduct effective, timely investigations by remote control in The Hague." International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan...