Criminal law

The couple deny launching a “vulgar” campaign of threats against the Legal 500 barrister’s former mistress

Lessons in law from the pages of comic books

Katie King reviews ‘This Is Your Trial’, the acclaimed improv show

The campaign against the joint enterprise doctrine is not over

An appeal by Ameen Jogee saw the law on joint enterprise drastically changed, but his fate still hangs in the balance

Poppers are probably exempt from the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, but no one is quite sure about jalapeño peppers

The factually guilty routinely ‘let off on a technicality’, while the factually innocent stay in prison

The introduction of the loss of control defence is a step backwards for the criminal law

An ode to Chinese defence lawyers

Judges need to stop being so vanilla — and stop meddling in our sex lives

Conviction rates are depressingly low

There’s a new way to criminally harass people

Taking a vehicle and killing someone with it is no longer enough to be convicted of aggravated vehicle taking

Excessive discretion runs counter to criminal justice goals

Supreme Court backs existing criminal law