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Law Pod UK: The most significant cases of 2024
Join Rosalind English in Episode 211 as she discusses with Lucy McCann and Jonathan Metzer of 1 Crown Office Row the cases that have been decided at all levels in the courts in 2024 that have had, or...
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Young persons’ consent for cross-sex hormone treatment
O v P and Q [2024] EWCA Civ 1577 (Jeremy Hyam KC and Alasdair Henderson of 1 Crown Office Row represented the mother in this case) This was an appeal from a decision in the Divisional Court by Judd J...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Grooming Gang Inquiry Rejected, Human Rights...
In UK News A heated debate has arisen across the UK and abroad after Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips last week rejected calls for a public inquiry into child grooming gangs in Oldham. In a letter...
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Law Pod UK new episode: Baroness Hale on Privacy and Press Freedom, the...
In Episode 211 of Law Pod UK I am joined by former President of the Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, first female law lord in the Court of Appeal, one time Professor of Law at Manchester University and...
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The Weekly Round Up: Southport Attacker Sentenced, Fault-based Divorce in the...
In UK News Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three children at a dance class in Southport earlier this year, pleaded guilty last week and has been sentenced to a minimum of 52 years. He unexpectedly...
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Law Pod UK latest: the Employment Rights Bill
In Episode 213 of Law Pod UK, Alasdair Henderson of 1 Crown Office Row joins Labour MP Henry Tufnell (formerly of 1 Crown Office Row) to discuss some of the salient and problematic proposals in...
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Refusal of sex on demand in marriage still considered “fault” in French divorce
It may come as a surprise that there still exists a country or countries in the enlightened West which do not regard sexual intercourse without consent within marriage as rape – or at least sexual...
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The Weekly Round Up: New UK asylum bill, judicial roles in assisted dying,...
In UK news The UK Government introduced its Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to Parliament on 30 January. The Law Society welcomed the Bill’s repeal of the controversial Safety of Rwanda...
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The Weekly Round Up: Review of Lucy Letby’s case, Vos’s AI endorsement, US...
In UK News Medical experts have claimed that Lucy Letby did not murder any babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, concluding that the infants died of natural causes and negligent medical care....
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Judicial Anonymity? Not this time.
In Tickle & Anor v The BBC & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 4, the Court of Appeal considered the High Court’s decision to anonymise the names of several judges who had made decisions in historic care...
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Trauma-Informed Lawyering with Dr Anna Colton
In Episode 214 Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Rachel Marcus of 1, Crown Office Row and Dr Anna Colton, an experienced Clinical Psychologist, about vicarious trauma and trauma-informed lawyering. Dr...
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The Weekly Round Up: Tougher citizenship rules, MI5 apologise for false...
In UK News The Home Office has tightened its ‘good character’ guidance for citizenship applicants who entered the UK illegally or via dangerous routes. From 10 February 2025, those applying who...
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The Weekly Round-Up: Axel Rudabakana, Judicial independence, predictive...
In UK News The Attorney General, Lord Hermer KC, has said that Axel Rudabakana’s sentence will not be referred to the Court of Appeal for undue lenience. Rudabakana was given a minimum 52-year...
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Law Pod UK latest: Lord Sumption on the Strasbourg Court
In Episode 215 Jonathan Sumption, formerly of the Supreme Court and author of five volumes of the Hundred Years War, says, after some reflection that “the ECHR is manifestly not a sensible and...
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Preaching hate: free speech, religion and the Human Rights Act
In Sleeper v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2025] EWHC 151 (KB) Mr Justice Sweeting dismissed an appeal against the decision of HHJ Saggerson to dismiss a claim against the Metropolitan...
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