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The Law Show Episodes

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    Deepfakes and the Law

    What are your rights if your voice is faked? Forensic science about speech, and in court.

  2. Prison sentences: too long or too short?

    The length of prison sentences; the state of prisons; US gun laws; new Scots human rights.

  3. Exporting prisoners, is Joint Enterprise racist, and Gaza-Israel

    Can exporting prisoners work? Are Joint Enterprise cases racist? And Israel-Gaza: the law.

  4. The new Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk KC MP

    The Justice secretary's plans and challenges; judicial diversity; working with Parkinson's

  5. How well is the Parole Board protecting the public?

    The Parole Board's record of public protection; spouses abandoned overseas; AI and the law

  6. Climate Change Challenging the Law

    The legal challenges of climate change: human rights law, fossil fuel investments, ethics

  7. How to Improve Rape Trials

    How the Law Commission and the Scottish government hope to change rape trials for victims

  8. The Legacy of the Good Friday Agreement

    On the 25th anniversary of the Northern Ireland peace deal, what challenges remain?

  9. The State of Prosecutions

    Rape convictions; forensic science; Director of Public Prosecutions; intimidating lawyers.

  10. Strikes Minimum Service Levels

    A law to minimise strike impacts; legal advisors helping patients' families; AI copyright.

  11. Justice for Ukraine

    Could a special international tribunal put Russian leaders on trial?

  12. The UK and the European Court of Human Rights

    The UK and the ECHR: trouble ahead? Do cohabiting couples have rights? Ownership disputes.

  13. Protest and the Law

    Reforming protest law; rap lyrics in court; a public law clinic at a Liverpool university.

  14. Scrapping European law

    Which EU-retained laws to keep; young people and the criminal law; crime-solving podcasts.

  15. Secrecy in the Court of Protection?

    Why some court hearings are secret. Is most UK chicken illegal? And indefinite sentences.

  16. Prison Education

    Prison education is 'chaotic', often 'inadequate'. How could it cut reoffending better?

  17. Human Rights: Reforming the Law

    Can the UK Bill of Rights be compatible with international law?

  18. Why do so few rape cases go to court?

    Explaining the barriers to conviction at every stage of the criminal justice system.

  19. Investigating War Crimes in Ukraine

    ICC prosecutor Karim Khan QC speaks about the challenges facing investigators in Ukraine.

  20. The Justice Secretary's Plans

    Dominic Raab and legal aid. And do we need more diversity among senior judges?

  21. Libel tourism

    Has silencing journalists with libel claims now become harder? And: new UK class actions.

  22. Gender recognition

    Is Scotland's Gender Recognition bill a progressive step forward, or a threat to women?

  23. Ukraine: war and law

    How does international criminal law regard Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

  24. Trial and error

    Joshua Rozenberg examines a lawsuit that鈥榮 rocked the sport of rugby.

  25. Jailhouse Law

    Tracking down trolls; how to be an advocate; and a lawyer behind bars.

  26. False Memory

    Does the phenomenon of false memory challenge the justice system?

  27. Judges in Jeopardy

    Joshua Rozenberg speaks to Afghan women judges at risk since the Taliban came to power.

  28. E-scooting through the law

    What's legal for e-scooters; space law; university freedom of speech and a DJ barrister.

  29. Covid penalties

    Unfair Covid fines, online justice, diversity in the profession, and private prosecutions.

  30. Traumatic brain injury and crime

    Brain injury is related to crime and is common among prisoners. But how to deal with it?

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