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Review: Classic courtroom drama played out on stage – it will make you want to become a criminal lawyer

But Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution grandeur is a world away from the realities of the criminal justice system

May 3 2018 9:15am
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Black Lives Matter: How to fix a failing criminal justice system?

A broken bridge to equality

Mar 22 2018 12:20pm
Survey: How should law academics teach rape, war crimes and other ‘hard subjects’?

Value of trigger warnings and ‘cold calling’ under spotlight

Nov 30 2017 3:07pm
From rape law to war crimes: The hardest part of ‘hard subjects’ is teaching them

Academics and students grapple with trigger warnings and ‘cold calling’

Nov 29 2017 8:58am
The Secret Barrister: A year of rubbish media reports and the public is dangerously disconnected from criminal law

The public should be outraged by the justice system — but not for the reasons they think

Nov 17 2017 9:20am
Major criminal syllabus shake-up as Ghosh test is overruled

Time to amend your notes

Oct 27 2017 11:12am

Confusion reigns as media says a two-year-old gave evidence in criminal proceedings

Legal history made?

Oct 11 2017 2:08pm
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Are we about to see more prosecutions for genocide?

This law has undergone a growth spurt in recent history

Oct 6 2017 10:25am
Solicitor who ‘cracked under the strain’ of work and tried to kill his wife has NOT been banned from profession

‘Realistic prospect’ attempted murderer could ‘return to practice eventually’

Sep 20 2017 11:48am
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The history of rape laws: Some might find it hard to believe, but the law is a lot better now

Bloody clothes used to be pivotal to a prosecution

Sep 18 2017 9:29am
Journal

Is the state the biggest cyber criminal of all?

The internet is the first thing humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand

Sep 5 2017 12:13pm
People are poking fun at The Times after it described the Offences Against the Person Act as a ‘Victorian-era law’

‘They’ll have a fit when they discover where common law offences come from’

Aug 16 2017 2:05pm

#TheAccused: Sympathy runs dry for defendant at centre of new crime documentary

‘Sob stories worse than the X Factor’

Aug 1 2017 10:47am
Why it’s time to rename and reclaim ‘revenge porn’

We speak to the lawyers behind the third-wave feminist movement

Aug 1 2017 9:08am
Southampton law student imprisoned for manslaughter APPEALS conviction and sentence

He was given six years for killing a father-of-ten on Valentine’s Day

Jul 27 2017 12:14pm
The sobering reality of being charged with a crime

Legal Cheek’s Katie King reviews new hard-hitting documentary The Accused: An Inside Job?

Jul 26 2017 9:08am
Criminal law exam 101: City lawyer guilty of battery after chasing girlfriend and spitting at her

Saga has similarities to classic R v Cotesworth case

Jul 12 2017 3:23pm
Asylum seeker turned solicitor who only qualified in 2016 wins immigration lawyer of the year

Baroness Doreen Lawrence handed out gongs at yesterday’s legal aid awards

Jul 6 2017 2:17pm

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Voice-activated advertisements: Should we be worried or are they the next big marketing scheme?

Burger King PR genius or criminal actions? Ryan Gaskell speculates in his shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition

Jun 26 2017 10:31am
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It’s time to take the power away from cyber criminals

Most cyber crime victims don’t even know they’re cyber crime victims, says Marina Perry in her shortlisted entry to the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition

Jun 2 2017 3:02pm
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IT illiteracy and government: how legislators never understood computers

Andras Kirkman-Kovacs, runner-up in the BARBRI International Cyber Crime Blogging Prize Competition, says the government has its work cut out

May 31 2017 12:02pm