Law Pod UK

Law Pod UK covers developments across all aspects of civil and public law in the United Kingdom. It is brought to you by the barristers at 1 Crown Office Row with presenters Rosalind English, Emma-Louise Fenelon, Jim Duffy and Lucy McCann. Information accompanying the podcast episodes is published on the UK Human Rights Blog.

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Jan 20, 2020 · 29 min
Ep 101: Should medical claims be done differently?
Medical negligence experts James Badenoch QC (now retired) and David Hart QC of 1 Crown Office Row discuss some of the solutions proposed to the vast expense to the NHS of damages claims in negligence and whether any of these propositions - such as a tariff system run by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board - is feasible.
Dec 20, 2019 · 26 min
Ep 100: Disaster avoidance for experts - Neil Sheldon QC
Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Neil Sheldon QC about how to help your expert stay out of trouble in clinical negligence cases
Nov 25, 2019 · 15 min
Ep 99: Celebrate a Century of Women in Law at Middle Temple
Middle Temple’s exhibition celebrates the centenary of the admission of women to the legal profession. It consists of 25 portraits of women Middle Templars over the last 100 years, including Helen Normanton, the first woman to become a member of an Inn. It is accompanied by a digital exhibition of many more of our distinguished women members. The exhibition curated by Rosalind Wright CB QC, a Bencher of Middle Temple with specially commissioned photography by Chris Christodoulou. The portraits are exhibited in order of Call to the Bar. We were lucky enough to be guided around this fantastic exhibition by the curator, Rosalind Wright CB QC. Listen to Rosalind discuss the first 100 years of women in law with Rosalind English in the latest episode of Law Pod UK. Visit the exhibition, and listen along, to see the women past, present and future who have changed the legal landscape at Middle Temple here. When: 2 September 2019 to 31 January 2020Where: Middle Temple Amendment: Baroness Helena Kennedy’s article and further literature surrounding Bertha Cave’s application and acceptance to Gray’s Inn as ‘B Cave’ has now been shown to be fictitious. However, Bertha Cave was a very early pioneer of women’s rights and, unfortunately unsuccessfully, took the benchers to the House of Lords to argue her case for inclusion.”
Nov 18, 2019 · 17 min
Ep 98: AI: Opportunity or Threat?
There should be a distinction between AI and algorithms being tools for lawyers as opposed to lawyers and laws being the tools for the use of AI. The huge emancipatory opportunities offered by technology could be lost if we don’t get on top of it and allow it to overtake us, as we subject ourselves to all its processes. Rosalind English talks to Emily Foges, CEO of Luminance, an Artificial Intelligence programme for the legal profession, about the practical applications of algorithms to the law. How can we avail ourselves of the codes before the codes manage us?
Nov 4, 2019 · 24 min
Ep 97: South African Constitutional Court: Human rights in a troubled country
Rosalind English talks to Kate O’Regan, who was appointed to the South African Constitutional Court at the dawn of the full franchise in 1994. Kate was one of the youngest appointees to a court with a profoundly important task, to apply the newly drafted Bill of Rights to a deeply divided society. Even with the demise of apartheid, conflicts persist: between African customary law and law imported from the country’s colonial masters, Britain and Holland; the cultural differences in the perception of the rights of women, and the uphill task of the courts to ensure the safety of citizens of the new South Africa from random violence on public transport.
Oct 7, 2019 · 20 min
Ep 96: What is a ‘mother’, in law?
The most senior family judge in England and Wales has ruled that a transgender man who gave birth with the help of fertility cannot be registered as his child's father. This is first case of its kind, and Rosalind English discusses the decision with Charlotte Gilmartin, who points out that the ruling endorses a tension between legal parentage and social/psychological parentage in transgender cases.
Sep 27, 2019 · 23 min
Ep 95: A Rogue Prorogation
Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Jo Moore and Jon Metzer from 1 Crown Office Row about the UK Supreme Court decision in R (Miller) v The Prime Minister and Cherry & Ors v Advocate General for Scotland.
Sep 25, 2019 · 12 min
Ep 94: Brexit - The Supreme Court Judgement
In this episode Catherine Barnard discusses the Supreme Court Judgment on the "unlawful" prorogation of Parliament.
Sep 23, 2019 · 22 min
Ep 93: Taxation and Human Rights
Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Isabel McArdle about some of the ways in which taxation and human rights overlap.
Sep 10, 2019 · 16 min
Ep 92: Brexit -“It takes two to tango!”
In this episode Catherine Barnard, looks at Boris Johnson’s government’s prospects of securing a new deal with the EU. Can they pull off a new deal with the EU or will his “do or die” mantra lead to a no-deal Brexit at the end of October 2019?
Aug 23, 2019 · 35 min
Ep 91: Reith Lectures Series Part 3: Audience Questions
As a bonus summer episode we bring you the questions and answers from the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association annual summer law conference in response to Jonathan Sumption’s Reith Lectures. The panel features: Lord Dyson, Sir Stephen Laws, Lord Falconer, Professor Meg Russell, Professor Vernon Bogdanor and is Chaired by Mrs Justine Thornton.
Aug 1, 2019 · 27 min
Ep 90: 2019 Summer greatest hits
To celebrate reaching 200,000 listens we have a selection of our popular 2019 episodes. A summer summary for listeners before we return in the autumn.
Jul 29, 2019 · 33 min
Ep 89: Reith Lectures Series Part 2: Lord Sumption’s Response
In Episode 89, Lord Sumption responds to a panel hosted by the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association, in conversation with Lord Justice Singh.
Jul 29, 2019 · 40 min
Ep 88: Reith Lecture Series Part 1: A Response to Lord Sumption
In Episode 88, an esteemed panel of speakers respond to former UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption’s Reith Lectures, as part of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association annual summer law conference. The panel features: Lord Dyson, Sir Stephen Laws, Lord Falconer, Professor Meg Russell, Professor Vernon Bogdanor and is Chaired by Mrs Justine Thornton.
Jul 15, 2019 · 10 min
Ep 87: Catching cross-border criminals - Catriona Murdoch
Rosalind English talks to Catriona Murdoch about a new app designed to help professionals in the investigation of international crimes. The BIS app ensures that relevant information is collected in ways that it will be reliable evidence in court.
Jul 3, 2019 · 23 min
Ep 86: Brexit - The Conservative leadership election and a new EU negotiating team
Here Professor Barnard examines whether either candidate could sign up to a tariff free no-deal, the so called GATT 24 option, and what the timings for Brexit look like both here and in the EU.
Jun 24, 2019 · 16 min
Ep 85: M4 relief road U-turn - Alasdair Henderson
Rosalind English talks to Alasdair Henderson about the Welsh government U-turn on the M4 relief road. Alasdair acted for some of the objectors in the inquiry and regards it as "probably one of the biggest environmental success stores in terms of challenging a major infrastructure project on environmental grounds.
Jun 17, 2019 · 12 min
Ep 84: Widening Access at the Bar - Jo Moore and Laura Bruce
In this episode, Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Jo Moore from 1COR and Laura Bruce from the Sutton Trust about widening participation at the Bar.
Jun 10, 2019 · 21 min
Ep 83: Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited - Part 2
In this episode we are bringing the second of two highlights from the recent one crown office row’s seminar – Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited. Dominic Ruck Keene dicusses the effects of the case.
Jun 10, 2019 · 11 min
Ep 82: Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited - Part 1
In this episode we are bringing the first of two highlights from the recent 1COR seminar – Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar revisited. We hear from Jonathan Metzer as he gives his interpretation of the case.