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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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0:30

Chinook families seek answers

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/05/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comLawyers for the families of 29 military and civilian intelligence specialists who were killed when an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 have said they will “consider all legal options” to find out how their relatives died. They have launched a campaign seeking answers and accountability.Around the time of the 30th anniversary of the disaster last June, the families discovered that Ministry

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0:33

Merricks wins £200m

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/05/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comMillions of consumers will each be able to claim compensation of between £45 and £70 after the Competition Appeal Tribunal gave its approval yesterday to the settlement of long-running litigation against Mastercard.The credit card company agreed to pay £200 million in settlement of a class action originally valued at £14 billion, thought to be the largest claim ever litigated in the courts of England and

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0:35

Curtailing jury trial

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/05/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comOffenders serving between one and four years who have been released from prison on licence and then recalled for breaching their licence conditions will generally be freed after a further 28 days, the justice secretary announced yesterday. At present, release is a matter for the Parole Board.It’s the latest attempt by Shabana Mahmood to keep prisoner numbers within the maximum that the prisons can hold and is

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0:24

Judicial diplomacy

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/05/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com“The independent judiciary — the cornerstone of the rule of law — is an integral part of what the UK has to offer to the world,” the lady chief justice of England and Wales said last night.Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill was addressing a court-full of senior judges and international visitors about the judiciary’s new five-year strategy for international engagement.“The pre-eminent reputation of the UK in

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0:42

Fraudsters beware

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/04/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comJonathan Fisher KC is to conduct an independent review of fraud offences, the Home Office confirmed this week. A leading specialist in financial and corporate crime at Red Lion Chambers, Fisher was originally commissioned by the Conservative government in October 2023 to conduct a two-stage review of disclosure — the issue at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal — and fraud. Fisher’s report on disclosure was

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0:35

Proudman vindicated

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/04/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com“These tweets would not have been pleasant for any judge to read,” the barristers’ disciplinary tribunal said in a ruling published last week. “The remarks may even be thought to be hurtful. But they are not gravely damaging to the judiciary and in our judgment it is not arguable that they are. We take the view that the judiciary of England and Wales is far more robust than that.”With those words, a three-person

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0:12

Shutting out kleptocrats

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/04/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comSolicitors who are approached by wealthy new clients should take greater care to ensure they are not facilitating kleptocracy, state capture or grand corruption, a new report recommends. Lawyers — particularly commercial firms in the City of London — are told it’s not good enough merely to comply with anti-money laundering rules; the real test should be whether their actions would be acceptable to the wider

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0:30

Guidelines explained

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/03/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comDespite reports that the government is seeking to rush legislation through parliament, a revised sentencing guideline on the imposition of community and custodial sentences will take effect in England and Wales tomorrow. As I reported last week, the Sentencing Council has rejected a request from the justice secretary to remove from the guideline of a list of 10 groups for which pre-sentence reports would “normally be

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0:25

Was it fraud?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/03/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe UK Supreme Court will spend most of this week hearing a rare criminal appeal by two former traders who worked in the financial markets. Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo both served substantial prison sentences for conspiracy to defraud after they were convicted, in separate trials, of rigging interest rates. Their cases were referred to the Court of Appeal in 2023 by the Criminal Cases Review Commission after a

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0:29

Real, not artificial

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/03/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comProfessor Richard Susskind CBE KC (hon), a prolific legal author, used to joke about writing the same book every couple of years. But How to Think About AI: a Guide for the Perplexed — his 12th book, published tomorrow — is rather different.Inexpensive, modestly priced and attractively produced in hardback by Oxford University Press, it’s aimed at the general reader who wants to know whether to be alarmed or enthused

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0:26

Yet more regulation?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/03/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comLawyers are sometimes failing to meet the ethical standards expected of them, according to the Legal Services Board. The oversight body that regulates the legal regulators in England and Wales is launching a consultation today on upholding professional ethical duties. This sets out five “outcomes” that regulators would have to implement so that legal professionals would provide a better service to their clients and

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0:18

Testing injustices

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/02/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe body that advises the government on law reform in England and Wales is suggesting a new test for referring suspected miscarriages of justice to the Court of Appeal.At present, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) cannot send a case to the appeal court unless it considers that there is a “real possibility” that the conviction will be quashed. In the absence of exceptional circumstances, there must be also

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31:48

Watching the watchers

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/02/18

The director general of MI5 told the independent commissioner who oversees his work that the security service had given false evidence in court shortly before the security service told the courts themselves.As investigatory powers commissioner, Sir Brian Leveson oversees the use of covert powers by more than 600 public authorities, including the UK’s intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, police, local councils and prisons.Last Wednesday, a High Court judge varied an injunction in a case

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0:18

Judging the judges

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/02/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comDoes it matter who our judges are? Yes, says an academic lawyer who has just published the fruits of his empirical research. Different judges exercise their power in different ways, according to a new book by Dr Lewis Graham, fellow in law at Christ’s College Cambridge. Some judges are more comfortable with pushing boundaries whilst others are more restrained. Some grant the state a lot of leeway whilst others apply

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0:35

Judge ‘deeply upset’

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/02/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comA judge who agreed that the schoolgirl Sara Sharif could live with her father and stepmother was “deeply upset” when they murdered her, I was told last week.Sir Rupert Jackson, a retired appeal judge who has known Alison Raeside for many years, said she was “as upset about this as everyone else and all your listeners”. In an interview for my podcast A Lawyer Talks, the former lord justice of appeal (pictured above)

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0:30

From bench to benches

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/01/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comEyebrows were raised just before Christmas when a serving judge was apparently nominated as a new political peer. But although the Downing Street statement was not entirely clear, Her Honour Judge Levitt KC had very properly resigned from the judiciary just a few hours before the announcement of her appointment as a legislator. This week, Alison Levitt will be introduced into the House of Lords as Baroness Levitt

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0:34

A changing climate

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/01/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comCourt challenges to major building projects will be limited under plans announced by the prime minister yesterday. In a press release, Downing Street said:Data shows that over half – 58% – of all decisions on major infrastructure were taken to court, getting in the way of the government’s central mission to grow the economy, and put more money in hardworking people’s pockets.The government today confirms this will be

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0:24

‘Why I resigned’

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/01/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comAs I reported in some detail yesterday afternoon, the chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission has decided to leave her job after an independent panel concluded by a majority that she should no longer head the body that reviews suspected miscarriages of justice. Successive justice secretaries had lost confidence in Helen Pitcher because of her handling of the Andrew Malkinson case.Pitcher made some pretty punchy

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39:17

Changing the bar’s culture

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/01/09

A proposed new duty requiring barristers to advance and promote equality, diversity and inclusion would be “unlawful and misguided”, the incoming chair of the Bar Council said last night.Barbara Mills KC, who took over this month as leader of the 18,000 barristers in England and Wales, said she was concerned that the bar’s regulator was seeking to use the barristers’ code of conduct “as the vehicle to attempt to change our culture”.Last September, the Bar Standards Board launched a consultation on

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0:29

AI can turn dark

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/12/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comAriel, the magician’s “trusty spirit”, speaks with Prospero in The Tempest about magic bringing about a “sea change”, a transformative power creating something “rich and strange”.As befits a lawyer who read English at Oxford, Jonathan Kewley drew on Shakespeare to describe artificial intelligence in a lecture earlier this month. The solicitor, who was awarded the title of partner of the year at the British Legal

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