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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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0:34

What would Chalk do?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/12/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comHow can we reduce trial delays of two or even three years in the Crown Court?Yesterday, I reported a suggestion from the director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson that was promptly skewered in the comments section by Ian Kelcey and Tom Crowther.Parkinson had also suggested that we might explore some ideas that had recently been backed by Alex Chalk KC, the former Conservative justice secretary. These would

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0:18

Deepfakes under fire

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/12/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comA bill that would make it illegal to create or solicit sexually explicit or intimate images without the consent of the people in them will be considered by the House of Lords next week. The bill would cover deepfake content, where photos or video are digitally manipulated to make a person appear to be in an intimate situation. Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, who was the youngest member of the House of Lords when she

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1:19

Failing to prevent fraud

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/11/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comWe are used to the idea of the criminal law penalising us when we do bad things. But there’s an increasing tendency for the state to punish large organisations for doing nothing at all.The latest example of this is the new offence of failure to prevent fraud, which takes effect next autumn. Statutory guidance was issued by the government earlier this month. But it was not as helpful as businesses might have hoped.For

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0:44

Get Carman

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/11/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe death of George Carman QC at the age of 71 meant — as I told readers of the Daily Telegraph at the beginning of 2001 — that the age of the great advocate was at an end:Until now. The 25 pages Carman managed to complete before his death form the starting point of a new book called Get Carman, which records his casework during the 1980s and 1990s. All the big names of the period are there: Jeremy Thorpe, Geoffrey

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0:45

What can former judges do?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/11/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comWhat retired senior judges choose to say about major issues of the day is of real interest and importance — particularly when they are discussing legal issues — a former head of civil justice said last night.Lord Dyson, who retired as master of the rolls in 2016 and then rejoined the chambers he used to head as a barrister, was delivering a lecture at Gray’s Inn called “Judicial after-life: should it be subject to

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2:09

Justice for Jenrick

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/11/06

Spare a thought for Robert Jenrick. A few hours after being appointed shadow justice secretary — with Kieran Mullan alongside him as the shadow justice minister — Jenrick was bounced back onto his bench by the formidable Alex Davies-Jones. His questions may read well in Hansard but the two minutes of video that I have posted above show how badly the defeated leadership candidate misjudged the position he now finds himself in.Davies-Jones, MP for Pontypridd since 2019, may be no more than a junior

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19:16

Supporting the bereaved

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/10/14

Dawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned in 2018 after spraying herself with what she believed to be perfume. In fact, it was the military-grade nerve agent Novichok. It’s believed that the perfume bottle had been thrown away by Russian agents who had used it in an unsuccessful attempt to murder the former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia earlier in the year.An unexpected death must be referred to the coroner and in circumstances such as this there would normally be an

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28:37

Living above the cells

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/09/16

Next week, Gregory Jones KC will take up residence at the most famous criminal court in the world. I don’t mean he’ll be the resident judge; Alderman Jones will actually be living over the cells at the Old Bailey — or, to be more precise, a few floors up. His fellow sheriff David Chalk will also move into a flat at the Central Criminal Court. What do the sheriffs do? And why would they spend a year of their lives living at the Old Bailey? The first KC to be appointed sheriff in some 900 years has

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18:57

Ministry of injustice

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/07/15

The Ministry of Justice has been ordered to pay more than £900 in damages and costs to a motorist after his car was wrongly clamped by an enforcement agent who had been instructed to collect an unpaid fine.Michael Burton, 49, who lives near Hull, had bought the car on hire-purchase — which meant it belonged to a finance company until all the payments had been made.He says it was clamped by Craig Edward Allen, a self-employed agent acting for an enforcement company, even though Burton showed Allen a

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33:12

Harry Dunn’s legacy

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/06/24

Harry Dunn’s parents are no longer seeking to appeal against a High Court ruling that the US intelligence analyst who caused the teenage motorcyclist’s death by careless driving nearly five years ago was entitled to diplomatic immunity, their lawyers have told me.The finding that Anne Sacoolas enjoyed immunity from UK criminal jurisdiction at the time of Harry’s death was not reached “with any enthusiasm for the result”, Lord Justice Flaux and Mr Justice Saini had said in 2020. But that conclusion,

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41:23

A lawyer talks

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/06/20

In her new book Rough Justice, the former Old Bailey judge Wendy Joseph KC explores areas where she believes the courts have fallen short over the years — including rape, domestic violence and child cruelty.She does this by taking the reader through four dramatic cases, viewed from her seat on the judge’s bench. Although the people she writes about are not real, everything they say and do is based on what she has heard and seen in the courtroom. It’s a literary technique she used to great effect two

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56:23

Creativity and conservatism

A Lawyer Talks ·

2024/05/30

The challenge for the courts is making the most of new technologies and practices without losing sight of what worked in the past, a justice of the UK Supreme Court said yesterday.In a lecture called Breathing Life into the Law: Achieving Access to Justice in the Modern State, Lady Rose of Colmworth said the best way of achieving this was a blend of creativity and conservatism.“Like Moses and Jethro,” she said, “we must innovate without impairing the quality of justice being dispensed.”Rose was

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66:52

Leaving the ECHR is not the answer

A Lawyer Talks ·

2023/09/15

Any move towards withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) would risk damaging the UK’s trading position, a former president of the human rights court argued this week.Robert Spano, now an international business lawyer, was speaking to me on Tuesday evening at a public event sponsored by the law firm Gibson Dunn, where he is a partner.Hours later, the Telegraph reported a claim by the former defence secretary Ben Wallace that the ECHR had become a threat to national security

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76:27

Pannick on the laws of London

A Lawyer Talks ·

2023/05/14

Lord Pannick KC is undoubtedly the UK’s leading lawyer in his chosen field, public law. Perhaps best known for winning the Brexit and prorogation challenges that Gina Miller brought against the government in the Supreme Court, he is currently defending the government’s Rwanda asylum policy in the Court of Appeal while representing Boris Johnson in the Commons privileges committee.He and I discussed these cases and much more at a fundraising event last Thursday for Support Through Court, a charity

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22:21

Lewis defends judicial independence

A Lawyer Talks ·

2022/10/02

The justice secretary Brandon Lewis said this afternoon he would defend judicial independence “to the hilt”. But, discussing reform of human rights, he stressed that parliament was sovereign. Lewis was speaking at at a meeting arranged by the think tank Policy Exchange at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.You can listen to the lord chancellor’s remarks by clicking the button at the top of this page. I have edited a couple of the questions from the floor. The meeting was chaired by Lord

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4:49

Did No 10 break the rules?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2021/12/08

This isn’t a political blog so I’m not going to make any tired references to the cover-up being worse than the crime or history repeating itself as farce. I realise that the current threat from the Omicron variant is no laughing matter. But that, of course, is why it is so important for the prime minister and his government to maintain the confidence of the British people.The leak of a rehearsal on 22 December for the No 10 press conferences that were subsequently abandoned has persuaded most people

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3:41

Hale receives Israeli PhD

A Lawyer Talks ·

2021/05/25

Baroness Hale spoke yesterday of her “huge admiration” for Israel, a country she has visited at least half a dozen times for judicial exchanges and academic seminars. Her unscripted remarks — which you can listen to by clicking the podcast symbol above — were made after the former president of the UK Supreme Court was made an honorary doctor of philosophy by Bar-Ilan University, near Tel Aviv, for her “outstanding efforts on behalf of women and minorities” and her “dedication to the protection of

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7:28

Threats to the rule of law

A Lawyer Talks ·

2020/10/10

BBC Radio Scotland ran an interview with me this morning (recorded on Friday) about threats to the rule of law. Isobel Fraser asked about references to lefty lawyers by the prime minister and the home secretary. We also discussed the review of judicial review and the UK Internal Market Bill. Joanna Cherry QC was kind enough to mention it on Twitter and I thought listeners outside Scotland might like to hear the interview, which I have very slightly edited. This is a public episode. If you’d like to

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34:18

Enemies of the People?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2020/08/26

Stephanie Hayward, a barrister specialising in criminal law, interviewed me live yesterday for her Instagram channel @behindthegownbarristers. We spoke mainly about my new book, Enemies of the People?You can watch the entire interview here but I thought it would be useful to post this (slightly edited) audio version so that you can also listen to it as a podcast. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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