All articles by Joshua Rozenberg – Page 2
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OpinionPM with inside knowledge can transform prisons
If polls are to be believed, a KC will be PM by the end of the year. Starmer would be the most senior practising lawyer in modern times to lead the government.
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OpinionPost Office bill – messy but quick
Government’s Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill raises unprecedented constitutional issues.
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OpinionClimate of fear raises the stakes on human rights
The European Court of Human Rights may answer some momentous questions for the first time in rulings to be delivered tomorrow.
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OpinionPrisons: stalled bill raises stakes on early release
If there is to be no new legislation in the coming months, justice secretary Alex Chalk must simply stretch the existing provisions as far as he can.
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OpinionPost Office convictions: setting the record straight
Legislation will be introduced ‘within weeks’ overturning wrongful convictions of hundreds of postmasters, the Ministry of Justice announced on 10 January.
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OpinionProtesters forced government’s hand on new curbs
New public order powers have been announced by ministers. Different branches of government have promoted the proposed reforms in very different ways.
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OpinionWhat the ICJ ‘genocide’ ruling means for Israel
The ICJ president Joan Donoghue must have tried hard to reach agreement on South Africa’s claim against Israel under the Genocide Convention of 1948.
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OpinionTurning opinions into circumstances
Attorney general preps for test case on protesters accused of criminal damage.
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OpinionPost Office scandal: lawyers in the frame
Although the scandal itself has now received extensive publicity, making amends has become ever more complicated.
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OpinionCauses and effect – can juries spurn the law?
Jurors 'should obey the law', Lord Devlin said in his 1956 Hamlyn lectures. 'But it is an obedience which they cannot be compelled to give.'
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OpinionJuries out on RASSO trials?
Barristers have submitted a strongly worded response to the Law Commission, which is currently considering the use of evidence in sexual prosecutions.
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OpinionSentence construction
Poor public understanding of sentencing is diluting the quality of debate.
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OpinionMaking the UK a safe place to go online
Although reforms will not be fully implemented before next year, service providers are already taking action to protect children from harm.
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OpinionTelling judges how to do justice isn’t a good idea
Chalk is ‘quietly confident’ that the government will be successful in arguments it will be putting to the Supreme Court on Rwanda this week.
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OpinionSticking with the ECHR is not just a political issue
Would pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights lead to the UK’s expulsion from the Council of Europe?
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OpinionAn LCJ who scaled the 'pinnacle of public service'
Lord Burnett of Maldon's private secretary noted that the lord chief justice had 'done more than you could ever know on your behalf’.
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OpinionLetting the public see how public law works
If people had watched Gina Miller’s first Brexit-related challenge, they would have seen that the judges were not ‘enemies of the people’.
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OpinionPost Office Inquiry: dark clouds on the Horizon for lawyers
However uncomfortable they may find the witness box, it is not as painful as sitting in the dock.
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OpinionCovid inquiry: mixed messages over disclosure
There are a lot of questions Boris Johnson needs to answer.