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Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
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Prisons in the UK: Violence, Drugs, Squalor, and a Glimmer of Hope
41 mins; April 01, 2026
A World Without Law: Operation Epic Disaster
46 mins; March 25, 2026
Listeners’ Postbag: Iran, Juries, and Too Many Lawyers
44 mins; March 17, 2026
Lammy Sets Out His Stall - Will Justice Be The Loser?
35 mins; March 10, 2026
Iran - Bombing International Law?
42 mins; March 03, 2026
What is Misconduct in Public Office? And the US Supreme Court Bites Back
57 mins; February 25, 2026
Proscribing Palestine Action - Why Was It Unlawful? And Will The Home Secretary Win Her Appeal?
49 mins; February 17, 2026
Can Sir Brian Leveson Save the Criminal Justice System?
50 mins; February 10, 2026
SLAPPS, Filibustering Death, and Juries
48 mins; February 03, 2026
Why The Lammy Jury Reforms Won’t Work
47 mins; January 27, 2026
Listeners’ Mailbag: Tariffs, Hunger Strikes and Undermining the Parole Board
44 mins; January 20, 2026
Venezuela, Greenland and The Donroe Doctrine: Power without Law
53 mins; January 13, 2026
UK Law and Politics 2025-2026: What’s Happened and What’s Coming Next
61 hours 8 mins; January 06, 2026
Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 2- Empire, Neglect and the Dilemma of the Pitcairn Sex Trials
39 mins; December 31, 2025
Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 1- Blazing a Trail for Criminal Justice Reform
31 mins; December 26, 2025
Mr Lammy Goes to Strasbourg- and our Christmas Listeners’ Postbag on Jury Reforms
38 mins; December 16, 2025
Swapping Judges For Juries: Will This Really Be Swifter And Fairer?
43 mins; December 11, 2025
We'll Be Right Back: This Week's Episode Will Be Out on Friday, 12 December
1 min; December 09, 2025
Are the Courts Flinching on Article 8? And Who’s Trying to Kill the Assisted Dying Bill in the House of Lords?
33 mins; December 02, 2025
Is the Right To Jury Trial Just History? And is the House of Lord’s Assisted Dying Filibuster an Attack on Democracy?
43 mins; November 28, 2025
Trump Versus The BBC, and Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Crackdown
45 mins; November 18, 2025
Labour Goes To Denmark - And Why Are We Releasing Prisoners By Mistake?
38 mins; November 11, 2025
Emily Thornberry and the Great China Spy Trial Mystery
45 mins; November 04, 2025
Lifting the Lid on the Home Office: Crashed, Repaired, or Still Unfit for Purpose?
45 mins; October 29, 2025
Why Did The Chinese Spying Case Really Collapse? Double Jeopardy Receives a Leaked Copy of the Defence’s Expert Report and an Exclusive Interview With Its Author, Professor Kerry Brown (who was not the source of the leak!)
49 mins; October 21, 2025
Can Jenrick Go Any Lower? Plus Palestine Action, Chinese Spying and Burning the Koran
36 mins; October 14, 2025
ECHR Rights, Cruelty, Chinese Whispers, and the Tyranny of Tech Bros in UK Politics
45 mins; October 07, 2025
Lucy Letby’s Trial Strategy Under the Spotlight, Why the Chinese Spy Case Collapsed, and Meta’s New Low
43 mins; September 24, 2025
Peter Mandelson, Graham Linehan, Palestine Action, and the Nastiness of Elon Musk
47 mins; September 16, 2025
Small Boats and the Irresistible Rise of Reform UK: Can the Refugee Convention Survive?
47 mins; September 10, 2025
Mr Farage Goes To Washington: The Truth About The ECHR
29 mins; September 03, 2025
Farage, Tolerating Torture, and Mass Deportations: Dragging U.K. Justice into Uncharted Waters?
30 mins; August 28, 2025
Holiday Postbag: Lucy Connolly, Lucy Letby, the Leveson Review and Two-Tier Justice
34 mins; August 20, 2025
Is Our Government Any Good? Palestine Action, Shabana Mahmood, and Foreign Prisoners in UK Jails
38 mins; August 13, 2025
LIBOR, Farage’s Cure for Lawless Britain, and Palestine Action in the Dock: UK Justice Goes on Trial
37 mins; July 29, 2025
Super Injunctions, Afghanistan, and UK Law
46 mins; July 22, 2025
Sir Brian Leveson and Criminal Justice: A Requiem For Jury Trials in England and Wales?
49 mins; July 15, 2025
Lucy Letby: Will She Waive Privilege as UK Prosecutors Widen the Net?
42 mins; July 08, 2025
Bombing Iran: Self-Defence or a Lawless Attack?
32 mins; July 02, 2025
When UK Law and Politics Collide: Abortion, Assisted Dying, and Bombing Iran
42 mins; June 24, 2025
Politics and Money in UK Justice: Juries, Abortion and the Double Jeopardy Postbag
45 mins; June 17, 2025
UK Politics and Bad Science: Investigating the Graveyard Spiral of Forensic Science in England and Wales
41 mins; June 10, 2025
David Gauke: Solving the UK Prison Crisis
41 mins; June 03, 2025
State Threats and Subversion: Keeping UK Politics Clean
41 mins; May 28, 2025
100th Episode of Double Jeopardy - Terminating the Cruelty of Victorian Era Abortion Laws: The Campaign to Decriminalise Abortion Across the UK
47 mins; May 21, 2025
Debating the Rule of Law in the UK: Hermer versus Wolfson
45 mins; May 14, 2025
Reforming Criminal Appeals and Righting the Wrongs of UK Justice
45 mins; May 07, 2025
Authoritarians Against Lawyers: Political Attacks on the Rule of Law
39 mins; April 30, 2025
Womanhood Defined: The UK Supreme Court Puts Biology and Science at the Heart of UK Discrimination and Human Rights Law and Transforms the Approach of UK Politics to Adult Human Females
38 mins; April 23, 2025
Fake News on Asylum, The Battle to Define Human Rights Law, and Labour’s New UK Politics
36 mins; April 16, 2025
Disclosure, Artificial Intelligence, and Modernising UK Criminal Justice: Will the Fisher Report Have Any Real Impact on Collapsed Trials and the Crumbling UK Justice System?
38 mins; April 09, 2025
Two Tier Justice, Mass Migration, and a Pound Shop Trump in the UK Parliament
40 mins; April 02, 2025
Lucy Letby’s Victims Strike Back: Identification Evidence, Miscarriages of Justice and Legal System Insights into How UK Juries Reach their Verdicts
32 mins; March 26, 2025
Judicial Independence, Human Rights Law and Political Hypocrisy: Breaking Down the 6 Page Letter from the Sentencing Council Chair
27 mins; March 19, 2025
Amending the Assisted Dying Bill and the Sentencing Council Under Attack
50 mins; March 12, 2025
Labour’s Criminal Justice: Performance or Reality?
31 mins; March 05, 2025
Why Sentencing is Out of Control
32 mins; February 26, 2025
Immigration, Asylum and Liberal Democracy
27 mins; February 19, 2025
Lucy Letby: The Experts Break Cover
33 mins; February 12, 2025
The Stolen Honour of Andrew Malkinson
38 mins; February 05, 2025
Southport, Terrorism and Whole Life Tariffs
30 mins; January 29, 2025
Listening to Criminals
27 mins; January 22, 2025
Foreign Interference in the Age of TikTok and Musk
31 mins; January 15, 2025
Spies, Royals and Elon Musk
37 mins; January 08, 2025
Review of the Year with Joshua Rozenberg
39 mins; December 18, 2024
Getting Away with Murder?
27 mins; December 11, 2024
Judges and the Power of Life and Death
33 mins; December 04, 2024
Politics, Religion and Assisted Dying
33 mins; November 27, 2024
The Daily Mail Goes to Strasbourg
33 mins; November 20, 2024
Lucy Letby, Fair Trials, and a Conservative Path to Justice
30 mins; November 13, 2024
Defending Diversity and Defining a Woman
34 mins; November 06, 2024
No Money for Justice and Chris Kaba: Part 2
43 mins; October 30, 2024
The Shooting of Chris Kaba and Failing the Victims of Mohamed Al-Fayed
31 mins; October 24, 2024
Law, Psychiatry and Murder
48 mins; October 16, 2024
Naomi Campbell’s Philanthropy and Robert Jenrick’s Stupidity
28 mins; October 09, 2024
Ian Burnett on Punishment, and the Disgrace of Mohamed Al-Fayed
55 mins; October 02, 2024
Diversity, Orwell and the Death of Satire
32 mins; September 24, 2024
Rape Trials in Peril and the Sentencing of Huw Edwards
39 mins; September 18, 2024
Rape Trials in Peril and the Sentencing of Huw Edwards
37 mins; September 18, 2024
Tommy Robinson's Tax Returns & Grenfell Delays
32 mins; September 11, 2024
Hate, Bigotry and Bleaching the Internet
36 mins; September 03, 2024
Lucy Letby Part 2: The Response
30 mins; August 27, 2024
Lucy Letby: The Shadow of a Doubt?
45 mins; August 16, 2024
Riots: The Full Force of the Law?
26 mins; August 08, 2024
Sarah Lunnon: Just Stop Protesting?
30 mins; August 01, 2024
Fiona Rutherford: Justice into the Future
37 mins; July 24, 2024
Starmer’s First Move - Ending Our Addiction to Prison?
30 mins; July 15, 2024
David Gauke: Conservative Reckoning, Labour Change?
53 mins; June 26, 2024
Justice Under Labour?
29 mins; June 14, 2024
Mark Fairhurst: Britain’s Prison Shame
49 mins; June 05, 2024
Angus McCullough KC: The Undermining of Secret Justice
36 mins; May 22, 2024
Jessica Simor KC: Judicial Activism in the Age of Global Warming
42 mins; May 14, 2024
Jonathan Jones KC: Will the Rwanda Bill Work?
32 mins; April 30, 2024
Nick Ephgrave - Meet the New Director
53 mins; April 23, 2024
John Bowers KC - The Power of Corruption
45 mins; April 10, 2024
Hannah Quirk - The Problem with Criminal Justice
46 mins; March 27, 2024
Jo Phoenix - Gender and the Ducking Stool
46 mins; March 07, 2024
Secrecy in the Family Courts
40 mins; February 16, 2024
Patrick Green KC - Mr Bates Beats the Post Office
41 mins; January 19, 2024
Jonathan Jones - Stopping the Boats?
40 mins; January 12, 2024
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