Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
Episode: Mr Lammy Goes to Strasbourg- and our Christmas Listeners’ Postbag on Jury Reforms
Description: As the UK joins 26 other Council of Europe States in calling for a rebalancing of the European Convention on Human Rights as between the individual rights of irregular migrants and the public interest in defending freedom and security, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC discuss the political imperatives which drove Justice Secretary David Lammy and Attorney General Lord Hermer to attend a potentially highly significant meeting in Strasbourg designed to head off the rise of populist, anti-ECHR parties across Europe. Â Click this link to read the statement issued by the 27 States following the Strasbourg meeting -Â https://www.go...