Justice Matters

Paul Newman KC looks at two of the many legal issues that affect the provision of pensions in the UK – invalid amendment and discrimination

How to start a podcast? Former High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn explains how he joined forces with Lord Falconer and Baroness Helena Kennedy KC to develop and present their weekly legal podcast

Britain needs to get over its shameful denial of racism, call it what it is and start to effectively deal with the problem, says Vithyah Chelvam 

An epic failure of public policy has filled our crumbling prisons to capacity, says Lord Ken Macdonald KC. How did we get here, and what might reform look like?

In this update on his Independent Review of Disclosure, Jonathan Fisher KC focuses on the miscellany of problems which need to be addressed right across the disclosure regime 

Stephen Mason sets out how the legal presumption, which exposed widespread misunderstanding about the nature of computer failures and caused serious widespread injustice, came into effect 

The legal system has been both a help and a hindrance, says Bharat Malkani who reflects on the relationship between law and racial justice in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act 

Marcia Hyde and Carol Day examine wildlife’s dire decline and the lack of effective legal remedy. Using the examples of the badger and hen harrier, they illustrate how difficult it can be to use the law for the purpose it was enacted 

Art, including music, should be protected as a fundamental form of freedom of expression and not used to unfairly implicate individuals, argues Ifẹ Thompson

Nature-related risks including climate change should be firmly on board agendas, say Sharif A. Shivji KC, Rebecca Stubbs KC, James Burton, Karl Anderson and Hossein Sharafi who have conducted a landmark review of directors’ duties under English law