Criminal

A book about the law governing child abuse has won the inaugural £10,000 Inner Temple book prize for outstanding legal authorship. 

Desmond Browne QC reviews the state of the profession in 2009 

The trial in the case of a £1.75m armed robbery of a cash depot at Heathrow Airport in February 2004 has collapsed for the third time. 

A Middlesborough man who impersonated a barrister has been jailed for two years. Ian Clegg, 32, described by Judge  Esmond Faulks as a “compulsive liar” who wanted to appear more important than he was, bought a wig and gown from eBay and defended two motoring cases and several debt cases. Clegg said he had studied law at Teeside University and was setting up a chambers in Middlesborough. The alarm was raised after he appeared puzzled by court procedure. 

In the wake of recent fatal police shooting cases, Anthony Heaton-Armstrong and David Wolchover discuss the habit of officers conferring on the compilation of their notes 

New Bar Council chair Desmond Browne has challenged the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, over the increasing share of available work taken in-house by the CPS. 

Suella Fernandes and Philip Riches packed their wigs and gowns and joined a team of volunteer lawyers helping to regenerate Rwanda’s legal system.  

The tragedy of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been well documented in film and literature and travelling through the beautiful rolling hills of the country, “les Milles Collines”, it is hard to ignore the constant reminders provided by the victim memorial sites.