Archive - A Lawyer Writes

Refugee refused refuge

High Court dismisses challenge by Sri Lankan Tamil detained in Diego Garcia

23 hrs ago •

Joshua Rozenberg

Private prosecutions

The case for reform — but when?

Mar 10 •

Joshua Rozenberg

Sense in sentencing

What the justice secretary should do — and what she shouldn’t

Mar 7 •

Joshua Rozenberg

Yet more regulation?

Legal Services Board want to strengthen lawyers’ ethical standards

Mar 6 •

Joshua Rozenberg

16:33

Coroner thinks again

Freelance journalist successfully challenges secretive inquest

Mar 5 •

Joshua Rozenberg

What can we be told?

Are trials at risk when the police come clean? Or is there a better way?

Mar 4 •

Joshua Rozenberg

New rule of law centre?

Former judge wants to reinstate lapsed academic post

Mar 3 •

Joshua Rozenberg

February 2025

Court refuses to overrule parents’ decision on where their son should live

Feb 28 •

Joshua Rozenberg

Press endangers judges

Inaccurate report led to security threats, lady chief justice says

Feb 27 •

Joshua Rozenberg

Testing injustices

Law Commission says CCRC should no longer try to second-guess appeal court

Feb 27 •

Joshua Rozenberg

31:54

Crime and policing

Christmas tree or Easter egg, it’s quite a bill

Feb 26 •

Joshua Rozenberg

Who’d be a judge?

Work-related stress symptoms may be behind looming recruitment crisis

Feb 25 •

Joshua Rozenberg

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