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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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0:29

One Man, Two Guvnors

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/04/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comA former chair of the bar has called for a wide-ranging review of the way that expert evidence is used in the courts of England and Wales. Speaking to one of the City of London livery companies just before Easter, Sam Townend KC said the use of experts had led to “something of a crisis in judicial and public confidence”. He told the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators that the development of the professional expert

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0:35

A president retires

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/03/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comSir Andrew McFarlane never expected to become a barrister. He had no particular interest in family law until he took the case that changed his life. His rapid promotion from the High Court to the Court of Appeal came as a surprise. The post of president of the family division was not one he aspired to. And he certainly did not expect to serve as the senior family judge of England and Wales for as long as eight

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0:33

Suspending judgement

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/03/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comNew sentencing laws take effect next week. Judges and magistrates in England and Wales will be able to suspend sentences of up to three years. And courts will have to suspend sentences of not more than 12 months unless there are “exceptional circumstances”.Because very short sentences are generally thought to be counter-productive, supporters of the reforms say we should all be safer as a result. And, at least to

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0:27

Justice for all

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/03/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe rule of law, as a phrase, is opaque, the head of civil justice said this week. As Sir Geoffrey Vos explained, “non-lawyers and even many lawyers think it is about the enforcement of law against citizens rather than enforcing, or rather upholding, the rights of citizens against the state.”The master of the rolls wondered if we could find a better term for the concept. He offered no suggestions himself. But if

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0:17

Life and death

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/03/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com“Any decision about the care and treatment of a mentally incapacitated adult, including the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, must be taken in the patient’s best interests,” the Court of Appeal said on Tuesday. “There is no carve-out for ‘clinical decisions’,” the court added, overruling a decision by a highly experienced Court of Protection judge.That conclusion is so broad that it cannot possibly be correct,

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0:27

State immunities

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/02/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comHow is it possible to enforce a judgment from the courts of one state against the government of another? That’s the topic I discuss on this week’s episode of A Lawyer Talks. My guest is Jehad Mustafa, a partner at Farrer & Co who specialises in state immunity, and we spoke at the solicitors’ historic (and partly stone-floored) offices in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.He and I discussed two rulings delivered last month: * In

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0:28

Jury reforms in weeks

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/02/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comAfter months of uncertainty, the government is pressing ahead with its plans to curb the right to trial by jury in England and Wales. Legislation is to be introduced “next month”, a minister says. Sir Brian Leveson expects the government to publish its bill even sooner, he tells me in this week’s episode of A Lawyer Talks.The former head of criminal justice was talking to me about the second and final part of his

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0:35

Can lawyers trust AI?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/01/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThis year will be a tipping point in which the majority of the legal industry will be AI-powered, a leading solicitor said in a comment released for publication this week. But what does that mean?Is artificial intelligence going to take over from the real thing? Will lawyers no longer be needed?“We predict that AI will create a huge dividing line between small, innovative firms that use it to rapidly accelerate and

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0:24

Phone hacking

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/01/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comAs the High Court begins hearing allegations today that the publishers of the Daily Mail hacked into phones used by the Duke of Sussex and other public figures, I thought it would be a good time to look at the most successful phone hacking operation ever carried out by law enforcement organisations in the United Kingdom and across Europe.Between 2016 and 2020, drug dealers and others involved in organised crime were

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0:23

Principled and pragmatic

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/01/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comReducing the availability of jury trial is neither principled nor pragmatic, the incoming chair of the bar argued last night. In her inaugural address, Kirsty Brimelow KC said her first priority was to lead the Bar Council’s opposition to planned Ministry of Justice reforms.She said:The constitutional principle is deep — with its importance being cemented in 1670 when Edward Bushel and his fellow jurors, a

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0:32

Gibraltar rocked

A Lawyer Talks ·

2026/01/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comGibraltar’s senior police officer was “in effect… forced out” of his job in 2020 as a result of assertions by the British overseas territory’s acting governor Nick Pyle and the chief minister Fabian Picardo KC that they had lost confidence in him, an inquiry by a retired British High Court judge has found.In a 700-page report published by the Gibraltar government on 23 December, Sir Peter Openshaw said he had no

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0:28

Not just a farmer’s wife

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/12/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comWith parliament and many of the courts not sitting, I can’t promise to publish a report every day over the next two or three weeks. But I don’t want 2025 to fade away without marking the 25th anniversary of White v White, a groundbreaking ruling from 2000 in which the UK’s most senior judges said that the division of joint property on the break-up of a marriage should be checked against the “yardstick of

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0:26

Shambolic

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/12/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comIn its report earlier this month on the collapse of a high-profile Chinese espionage case, parliament’s joint committee on the national security strategy found evidence of questionable decision-making, misaligned expectations and failures to take potential opportunities that could remedy problems. “Some aspects are best described as shambolic,” the report added. “The government and Crown Prosecution Service must

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0:45

Equality before the law

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/12/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comPeople respond to outcomes rather than reasoning, the deputy president of the UK Supreme Court told me last week. Lord Hodge was reflecting on the reaction to the court’s ruling in the For Women Scotland case, where he gave the leading judgment.“We decided the question of statutory interpretation,” he explained, “and have left it to others to work out the consequences. And of course the Equality and Human Rights

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0:24

Jury’s back

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/12/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comWe still don’t know why leaked government plans reported on Tuesday of last week — “juries will decide only murder, rape or manslaughter cases” — were so different from what ministers announced this Tuesday.It turns out that jury trial will be retained for cases where the likely sentence is over three years and for all indictable-only offences. Examples given by the government include murder, manslaughter,

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0:37

Was US attack a war crime?

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/12/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comPete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, violated security protocols and endangered troops by using a personal device to share sensitive operational details on the unclassified messaging app Signal, according to reports in the US media of a forthcoming finding.Meanwhile, Hegseth is apparently trying to distance himself from allegations that he ordered a second military strike on a boat carrying drug smugglers in the

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7:36

Fortitude

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/11/27

Brexit has had an impact on everyone who holds a British passport but on none more so than those UK citizens who worked for the European Union and found themselves out of a job after the United Kingdom left the EU in 2020.It was therefore gratifying to see Middle Temple paying tribute to two senior members who had served in the EU courts by commissioning a painting of them. As you can see, it’s a custom that the inns of court have been following for centuries. This double-portrait is by Fiona

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0:31

Paradoxes of property

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/11/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comWhat is property? It seems a simple enough question. I own my clothes. But do I own my body, my ideas, my country? If I own my bicycle and it’s stolen, can I get it back by cutting the chain that the thief has used to secure it? My personal data may be better protected than my bicycle — but do I own it? And what about natural resources? Does anyone own them? Can private ownership bring public benefits? Are there

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0:26

Tyranny and anarchy

A Lawyer Talks ·

2025/11/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.comThe rule of law must be protected against further erosion, an all-party parliamentary committee warns us today. Failure to do so, says the House of Lords constitution committee, risks the rise of extremist political parties, ultimately creating space for dictatorship. I was one of many who gave oral evidence.My analysis of the committee’s report— called The rule of law: holding the line against anarchy and tyranny —

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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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