Law In Focus Podcast
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Law In Focus Podcast
Law in Focus is a collection of short interviews featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at...
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Vinter v UK - The Right to Hope and the Whole Life Tariff: Nicola Padfield
The case of Vinter v UK was recently decided by the European Court of Human Rights, and has raised a good deal of controversy regarding the right of t...
The Criminal Defence of Marital Coercion: Findlay Stark
Dr Findlay Stark examines the defence of marital coercion, which recently hit the headlines with the trials of Vicky Pryce and former Secretary of Sta...
Re J - Uncertain Perpetrators in Child Protection Cases: Brian Sloan
Dr Brian Sloan examines the case of Re J (Children) [2013] UKSC 9, in which the Supreme Court considered a child protection case involving a mother wh...
The Defects of Jury Trials: John Spencer
In the light of the discharge of the jury in the trial of Vicky Pryce, questions have been asked about the value of the jury system. Professor John Sp...
Votes for Prisoners? Democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights: David Feldman
Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights holding that the UK’s blanket ban on voting by convicted prisoners violates Article 3 of Protocol 1 to...
Householders Who Use Violence on Burglars: John Spencer
At the 2012 Conservative Party conference, new Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced plans to amend the criminal law to ensure that even househol...
House of Lords Reform: Mark Elliott
The House of Lords Reform Bill, which is currently before Parliament, is the latest of many attempts to reform the upper chamber of the UK Parliament....
The Effect of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 on Legal Aid for Family Cases: Jo Miles
The legal aid system was created in 1949 as part of the development of the post-war Welfare State, alongside the National Health Service. It provides...
Deporting Abu Qatada: the European Court of Human Rights, and Governments: David Feldman
There has recently been a great deal of controversy surrounding judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the attempted deportati...