Criminal law

Hamish Arnott, Simon Creighton and Jane Ryan round up important policy and legislative developments, and cases on indeterminate sentences, parole, and...

Restrictions on those seeking to defend the environment are an increasing barrier to access to environmental justice.

More than a month after criminal lawyers made an official complaint about ‘extremely concerning’ behaviour by Stratford Magistrates’...

Andrew Malkinson has attacked jury majority verdicts, which he blames for his own wrongful conviction, at the launch of a report calling for the...

Fiona Bawdon looks at the role of juries in miscarriage of justice cases and whether
it’s time to scrap majority verdicts.

​Barristers doing youth justice work need not only specialist legal knowledge, but also to be willing to win young clients’ trust and...

The London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association has lodged an official complaint over ‘genuinely disturbing’ treatment of lawyers...

Amid the increasing investigation, prosecution and criminalisation of abortion, a way forward was suggested at the Doughty Street Chambers...