28th October 2024 In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear – from London by William Blake * Over at Prospect I have done an article on …

Miscarriages of Justice: the Oliver Campbell case

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 September 2024 English

21st September 2024 How a recent appeal case is instructive about how difficult it for the English legal system to right a wrong * Over at Prospect I have done …

Lucy Letby and miscarriages of justice: some words of caution on why we should always be alert to the possibilities …

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 August 2024 English

19th August 2024 Over at his Substack, the leading legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg states: “There’s something about the Lucy Letby case that attracts conspiracy theorists. Maybe the truth — that …

How the criminal justice system deals with a riot

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 August 2024 English

5th August 2024 Thirteen years ago, I went along to the south London shopping centre expecting to report on a riot. But there was not a riot. And so in …

The Lucy Letby case: some thoughts and observations: what should happen when a defence does not put in their own …

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 July 2024 English

26th July 2024 Often the criminal cases that feature prominently in the news are really not interesting from a legal(istic) perspective. One could quite happily commentate on interesting legal issues …

How the Met police may be erring in its political insider betting investigation – and why we should be wary …

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 June 2024 English

28 June 2024 Some may be tempted to clap and cheer at the news that a Conservative politician is facing a Metropolitan police investigation in respect of alleged political insider …

Donald Trump is convicted – but it is now the judicial system that may need a good defence strategy

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 June 2024 English

1st June 2024 On balance, the prosecution of Donald Trump in New York did not look likely to succeed. The prosecution had to show that certain business records were falsified …

The unwelcome weaponisation of police complaints as part of ordinary politics

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 May 2024 English

31st May 2024 Here is a news snippet that showed the sheer dislocation in our politics. It is from 2022. You may remember the context. There was always something that …

Trump’s case – a view from an English legal perspective

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 April 2024 English

24th April 2024 I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective. Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer …

How the legal system made it so easy for the Post Office to destroy the lives of the sub-postmasters and …

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 January 2024 English

12th January 2024 The Post Office Horizon scandal is both simple and complex, straightforward but also difficult to grasp in all its interconnected detail. The essence of the scandal is, …