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The Law Show — 118 episodes

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1

What are Blitz courts?

2

Political donations and the law

3

Why were three teen rapists not given custodial sentences?

4

The Renters Rights Act - In Detail

5

How tough are the UK's asylum laws?

6

When is it legal to go to war?

7

Is it legal for police to use live facial recognition technology?

8

The plans to limit jury trials in England and Wales

9

What is Misconduct in Public Office?

10

The law under fire

11

The court delays crisis

12

Immigration and the law - who stays? Who goes?

13

How can avoidable deaths be prevented?

14

Should killers be forced to attend sentencing hearings?

15

Wrongful convictions: why private prosecutions face reform

16

My data's been stolen in a cyberattack - can I sue?

17

Death and the Law in England and Wales

18

The human cost of court delays

19

Genocide, war crimes and justice

20

Expert witnesses in criminal trials

21

Joint enterprise - what is it and why is it controversial?

22

Miscarriages of justice and the CCRC

23

Inside the Family Courts

24

The Renters' Rights Bill

25

Traumatised jurors, prenups and Japanese knotweed

26

Sewage-polluted waters, Divorce and financial orders, Leasehold reform

27

Assisted dying, County court judgments, Drill music and ... nakedness

28

Protest, Lasting power of attorney and the Green belt

29

Introducing The Law Show

30

The Lady Chief Justice

31

Criminal damage defence limited

32

Fighting Knife Crime

33

The Post Office scandal

34

Jury conscience, resolving conflicts in space, and the law of Treasure Trove in Scotland

35

Deepfakes and the Law

36

Prison sentences: too long or too short?

37

Exporting prisoners, is Joint Enterprise racist, and Gaza-Israel

38

The new Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk KC MP

39

How well is the Parole Board protecting the public?

40

Climate Change Challenging the Law

41

How to Improve Rape Trials

42

The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement

43

The State of Prosecutions

44

Strikes Minimum Service Levels

45

Justice for Ukraine

46

Full-length interview with Robert Spano, recent president of the ECHR

47

The UK and the European Court of Human Rights

48

Protest and the Law

49

Scrapping European law

50

Secrecy in the Court of Protection?

51

Prison Education

52

Human Rights: Reforming the Law

53

Why do so few rape cases go to court?

54

Investigating War Crimes in Ukraine

55

The Justice Secretary's Plans

56

Libel tourism

57

Gender recognition

58

Ukraine: war and law

59

Trial and error

60

Jailhouse Law

61

False Memory

62

Judges in Jeopardy

63

Fighting knife crime

64

E-scooting through the law

65

Covid penalties

66

Traumatic brain injury and crime

67

Reforming Judicial Review

68

Can the law fight climate change?

69

Exclusive interview with the lawyer of Anne Sacoolas

70

Civil Justice for Harry Dunn?

71

Jack Merritt's legacy

72

Good advice

73

Fire Courts

74

The International Criminal Court

75

Reinventing the law

76

Gambling with the law

77

Justice in lockdown

78

Workplace law

79

Deferred Prosecution Agreements: pragmatic but unprincipled?

80

An Enterprising Court

81

Supporting evidence

82

On parole

83

What’s it really like to be in prison?

84

Abusive parents

85

Help for vulnerable witnesses

86

Legal lessons from Brexit

87

Rape Myths

88

Julian Assange: What next?

89

Raising the Bar?

90

Brexit and the EU judiciary

91

Jailhouse Law

92

Online Abuse and the Law

93

The Family Drug and Alcohol Court

94

The Supreme Court

95

Peacemaking, New York style.

96

How did the US Supreme Court become so powerful?

97

Can the law rein in Amazon?

98

Should a former soldier be tried without a jury?

99

Facial Recognition Technology

100

Social media in the dock

101

Should justice move online?

102

No-fault Divorce

103

Interview with Lord Chancellor David Gauke

104

Driverless Cars and the Law

105

Sex Discrimination Law

106

Failings in Evidence Disclosure

107

Trump, the FBI and the Law

108

Interview with The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

109

Investigating the Dead

110

Acid Attacks and the Law

111

The Lawyers Working for GCHQ

112

Interview with the Lord Chancellor David Lidington

113

The Law After the Election

114

Why Are We Short of Judges?

115

Joint Enterprise and Homicide Law

116

Brexit in the High Court

117

Terrorism, Extremism and the Law

118

Interview with Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions