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We swim in a sea of data. Our digital devices know where we’ve been, who we’ve communicated with, what we’ve looked at and how we’ve responded. As a result, each one of us is an open book. An open Facebook, indeed, or something similar. And we’ve allowed this to happen because we wanted to have… Continue reading
“I have tasted the bitterness of injustice” Mahmood Mattan tells the imam who visits him in jail, as he awaits his execution for a crime we now know he did not commit. Mattan, a Somali seaman who has settled in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, has been fingered for the murder of Violet Volacki, a Jewish shopkeeper,… Continue reading
The Prorogation Case of 2019 forms both the centrepiece of the latest Supreme Court Yearbook, and the climax of a glittering legal career for the court’s president, Lady Hale, whose autobiography Paul Magrath reviews alongside… Continue reading
David Burrows reviews Amnesty International’s handbook of children’s rights co-written by Angelina Jolie and Geraldine Van Bueren QC, and finds this protest manual to be curiously lacking in actual legal advice… Continue reading
Paul Magrath reviews Prof Leslie Moran’s survey of how the public perception of the judiciary is informed by images of both real and fictional judges. … Continue reading
Paul Magrath gets ready to gasp and stretch his eyes as the veteran political commentator takes him on a guided tour of contemporary political mendacity.
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Paul Magrath reviews the latest novel from Peter Murphy, in which present day lawyers battle over a historical injustice dating from the American War of Independence. … Continue reading
The novelist and travel writer is the subject of a new biography but she was also renowned for her coverage of court cases.… Continue reading
We survey some of the newer legal podcasts that have helped inform and distract us during the enforced isolation of the covid era. … Continue reading
Since retiring from the Supreme Court in 2018, Lord Sumption’s public profile has increased still further, first with his delivery of the Reith Lectures in 2019 and more recently as a public commentator on law and politics, most notably for his principled opposition to the coronavirus lockdown. We review his latest book and another which celebrates his contribution to the case law of the Supreme Court, alongside some reflections on the role of the court by its former President, Lord Neuberger.… Continue reading
