Legal Beagle

Not only does our fine nation have a brand new Prime Minister, but I arrived in Chambers today to find an email about a brand new form in my...

Dear me, has it really been over a month? Sorry to be gone so long. I was away on holiday for a couple of weeks (very decadent, I know) and ...

I hope that this report of a defence barrister's conduct in a rape trial contained a lot of inaccuracies. It's often unattractive t...

Apparently, magistrates ignore expert reports when sentencing young offenders, preferring to rely on their own "common sense" and...

Unusually, I didn't read the paper until yesterday evening so missed the story about the Michael Symes, a juror on the terrorism trial ....

Or DVDs, actually. Today I finished a very harrowing trial involving a series of sexual offences against two children; what is commonly refe...

Last weekend I went to the CBA (Criminal Bar Association) Conference in the lovely city of Birmingham. I had been looking forward to it for ...