Features

As the election looms, Lord Bach, shadow attorney general, talks to Chris McWatters and puts Labour’s case for justice.  

I didn’t expect to find myself in this position,” says Lord Bach, “but I’m delighted Ed Miliband asked me to do it!” 

Chris Henley QC looks at the Leveson Review and examines the proposals it makes to increase efficiency in criminal proceedings.  

The Right Honourable Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, was tasked in February 2014 by the Lord Chief Justice, responding to a request by the Lord Chancellor, to conduct a review into the efficiency of criminal proceedings. 

Sacrificing genetic confidentiality and criminalising revenge pornography; just some of the proposals by the sixth form participants of the 2014 Model Law Commission.  

Big Voice’s Victoria Anderson explains. 

With Parliament dissolving for the election, Mark Hatcher looks ahead to the manifestos and the importance they place on preserving our system of justice.  

The dissolution of the Westminster Parliament on 30 March means that, until a new Parliament is elected on 7 May, there are no MPs for 25 working days. 

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Joint Head of Chambers 

4-5 Gray’s Inn Square is a leading public and commercial law chambers specialising in public, commercial, planning & property, international, regulatory & disciplinary and sports law matters. 

Court & Bowled 

Tales of Cricket and the Law 

Author: James Wilson 

Published by Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing £19.99 

ISBN: 9780854901401 

Magna Carta Uncovered 

Authors: Anthony Arlidge and Igor Judge 

Hart Publishing £25 

ISBN: 9781849465564 

Nigel Pascoe QC reviews The Scottsboro Boys at the Garrick Theatre.  

In March 1931, at Paint Rock, Alabama, nine black teenagers were taken off a freight train which had been running in Tennessee... 

Between February and June 2014, Jelia Sane worked as a legal adviser for the Political Prisoner’s Solidarity Committee, Colombia’s oldest human rights NGO.   

Here she reports on the ongoing peace negotiations. 

As the consultation on Draft CPS Guidance on Speaking to Witnesses at Court takes place, the DPP, Alison Saunders, explains the reasoning behind the guidance and Tony Cross QC gives the Criminal Bar Association’s view.  

Last month I announced new proposals to better assist victims and witnesses called to court to give evidence in criminal trials.