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A Lawyer Talks

Joshua Rozenberg

Joshua Rozenberg KC (hon) is Britain"s most experienced commentator on the law. This new podcast complements the daily updates he publishes on A Lawyer Writes. rozenberg.substack.com

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0:38

The limits of AI

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/11/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comCoCounsel is the name given by the content and technology company Thomson Reuters to its artificial intelligence assistant for legal professionals. But Pablo Arredondo, who developed its precursor with his colleague Jake Heller and then sold it to Thomson Reuters for $650m, is not so sure about the choice of name now. And while he fizzes with excitement at finding what AI can do, he is more aware than most of its

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0:30

Judging human rights

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/11/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comHugh Mercer KC has sat as the UK judge at the European Court of Human Rights for little more than a month. But there will be a general election in less than four years’ time and two major political parties are seeking to have Judge Mercer kicked off the court before he completes his nine-year term of office. Does he still think applying for the post was a good career move?That was one of the questions I asked him

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0:27

Justice for all?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/10/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comDemocracy is under challenge in the west, a former president of the Supreme Court told me this week. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, who was the UK’s most senior judge from 2012 to 2017, said the level of disappointment in governments — almost across the Western world — seemed to be pervasive and increasing. People were turning to populist alternatives and, he added, populism tends not to respect the rule of

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0:28

Spy case unravels

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/10/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comA former diplomat who served at the British embassy in Beijing has cast doubt on what’s thought to have been a major allegation in the failed prosecution case against two men who were accused of spying for China. Professor Kerry Brown, a leading sinologist who would have been called as a defence expert if charges against Chris Berry and Chris Cash had not been dropped, thought it was entirely implausible that Cai Qi,

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0:30

Traducing the judges

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/10/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com“Politically motivated attacks on the legal profession are irresponsible and dangerous,” representatives of all 250,000 lawyers in the United Kingdom said this week. These attacks, they added, “weaken public trust and confidence in the rule of law and erode the very foundations of justice that underpin fairness and democracy”.In a joint statement, the Bar Council, the Law Society, the Law Society of Scotland, the

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0:26

Consumer protection?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/10/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe Department for Business and Trade is currently reviewing the opt-out collective actions regime in competition law, a legal structure that enables consumers to claim compensation from corporations that are accused of abusing a dominant position in the marketplace. A recent example was the claim brought against Mastercard on behalf of up to 44 million consumers by the lawyer Walter Merricks, who discussed the

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0:29

Don’t go, says ex-judge

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/09/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comIt would be “shame and a mistake” for the United Kingdom to leave the European convention on human rights, the UK’s former judge at the human rights court told me last week. Tim Eicke KC, who was elected to the court in 2016 for a nine-year-term, spoke to me from Essex Court Chambers, the barristers’ set to which he returned earlier this month. As the judge “elected in respect of Northern Ireland” — plus the rest of

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0:42

Patently obvious

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/09/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThink of an international court that can stop foreign manufacturers selling pirated copies of British inventions in the UK. It’s a court whose proceedings are largely conducted in English and where UK lawyers abound. This is a court whose use of English legal principles has contributed to its success since it opened for business a couple of years ago. But its caselaw must do without the insights of British judges

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0:36

Reform begins at home

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/09/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comLeaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be completely contrary to the UK’s national interests, the attorney general said yesterday.Addressing the House of Lords constitution committee, Lord Hermer KC said withdrawing from the convention — and the 46-nation Council of Europe that administers it — would be entirely counterproductive if we were seeking practical answers to irregular migration.The UK had

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0:27

Access to justice

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/09/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comIn July, a little-known body headed by the second most senior judge in England and Wales launched a public consultation on new ways of ensuring access to justice.The Online Procedure Rules Committee — chaired by the master of the rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos — was created by parliament three years ago to make rules for legal proceedings “to be initiated by electronic means”. But instead of trying to create a costly new

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0:28

Egging on a pre-nup

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/08/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comEncouraging your future spouse to sign an English prenuptial agreement before you marry has always been a bit of a risk — as Jenny Alzena Helliwell discovered last week. Lawyers for her former husband Simon Graham Entwistle persuaded the Court of Appeal to set their pre-nup aside because she had deliberately failed to disclose nearly three-quarters of her personal wealth.The couple’s divorce became notorious last

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0:34

Epstein’s toxic legacy

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/07/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comDonald Trump is not the only prominent figure who may be regretting his dealings with the disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In October 2019, Barclays Bank sent a letter to the Financial Conduct Authority assuring the FCA that the bank’s chief executive, James Edward “Jes” Staley, “did not have a close relationship with Mr Epstein”, who had died in prison two months earlier. Staley’s “last

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0:27

Trying rape fairly

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/07/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comReforms to the way sexual assault cases are prosecuted and tried in the courts of England and Wales are recommended in a report today by the government’s reform advisers.The Law Commission’s proposals are intended to provide better protection for complainants while maintaining fair trials for defendants. For the first time, complainants would be given legal advice and representation at hearings to decide whether to

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0:21

Leveson reports

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/07/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com“The present way in which trials are organised, allocated and tried is no longer sustainable and, if continued, will lead to the collapse of the criminal justice system,” Sir Brian Leveson says in his report today on the criminal courts of England and Wales.Leveson was invited to carry out his review by the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood. She welcomed his 400-page report and promised to do “whatever it takes” to

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0:44

Family law: the future

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/07/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comWhen parents split up, it’s often the children who suffer most. But over the past three years or so, family judges have quietly developed an entirely new way of focusing on the most vulnerable members of a family. Rather than being litigant-led, it’s child-led.To find out how the Pathfinder scheme works — and why it’s not available in large parts of England — I dropped in yesterday to interview the most senior family

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0:26

Revisiting the refugee convention

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/06/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comCritics who imagine that we can secure our borders against migrants simply by leaving the European convention on human rights have overlooked another major international agreement that the UK signed at around the same time.The United Nations refugee convention of 1951, extended in 1967, gives important rights to people who have a well-founded fear of persecution in their own countries. In particular, refugees must

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0:19

Cyber attacks

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/06/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comIn recent weeks we’ve seen cyber attacks on bodies such as the Legal Aid Agency and companies such as Marks & Spencer. But many other attacks are simply not made public. How should organisations defend themselves against risks to their data? And should they pay ransom demands in the hope of getting it back?These are among the questions I have been discussing on the latest episode of A Lawyer Talks with James Moss,

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51:20

A common heritage

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/06/12

What impact has English common law had on the legal system of Israel? That’s the question Lord Pannick KC discussed yesterday with Dorit Beinisch, president of the Supreme Court of Israel from 2006 to 2012.The answer turned out to be considerable. During the British mandate period, there were appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. For decades after Israel’s independence in 1948, Israeli lawyers relied on used well-worn English textbooks — Salmond, Wade, De Smith — and

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0:24

Unlocking the door

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/06/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe Parole Board should increase the number of public hearings it holds each year, an internal review has recommended. It’s one of the ways that the board hopes to achieve greater public understanding of its work.The Parole Board is an independent body whose members make judicial decisions on whether people who have committed serious offences or who are assessed as potentially dangerous need to stay in prison for the

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0:30

Lord Wolfson replies...

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/06/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comIt would be “constitutionally improper” for ministers to comply with treaty obligations if that would mean ignoring laws made by parliament, the shadow attorney general said yesterday. Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC (pictured) was responding to allegations by Lord Hermer KC, the government’s senior law officer, that the Conservative front-bencher had adopted a “pick-and-mix approach, in which states can sometimes

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