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The Jury: Murder Trial: entertaining but not informative viewing
Warning: This article contains spoilers! The TV programme The Jury: Murder Trial, broadcast on Channel 4, was entertaining but not informative viewing.
C4’s ‘The Jury: Murder Trial’ - what’s the verdict on our jury system?
The programme The Jury: Murder Trial being broadcast on Channel 4 this week should be fascinating viewing. I hope the programme makers show enough for us - the TV jury if you like - to glean a glimmer of insight as to how juries deliberate and reach their verdicts (in England and Wales). Research into juries, or at least how they reach their verdicts, is limited.
Difficulties in sentencing historic sexual offences
Cases relating to historic sexual offences seem to have dominated the media in recent times. Some difficult and sensitive issues can arise when the courts are dealing with such cases. When sentencing offenders convicted of historic sexual offences, relatively recent case law provides some helpful guidance (in particular, the cases of R v Limon [2022] EWCA Crim 39; R v Ahmed and others [2023] EWCA Crim 281; and, R v A (Whitelam) [2023] EWCA Crim 1204).
Dousing dissent
Charged – How the Police Try to Suppress Protest Matt Foot and Morag Livingstone £18.99, Verso ★★★★✩ This well-researched and readable account of the relationship between the police and citizens does not sit on the fence. It makes the case that senior police apparently carved out for themselves an active role in suppressing protest. Much of this has been done in secret, and therefore without political accountability.
LCCSA: Do-gooders united!
This is an edited version of the guest speech given by Matt Foot at the LCCSA AGM 14/11/21 Do-gooders of the world unite! Guest blog by Matt Foot I am very honoured to be invited to speak at the annual meeting of the British Virgin Islands Lawyers. And thank you for the £700k. Oh Sorry -wrong speech! I am sorry to raise this after you have just eaten but we need to talk about Priti Patel….
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