Law Pod UK (Law Pod UK)

Sarah Jane Ewart talks through the prospect of the first all female terror plot trial, legal aid for unaccompanied minors in immigration cases, the Bar Council's manifesto "The Value of Justice", the law post-Brexit, and shift sleeping and the minimum wage. Sarah Jane Ewart is in conversation with Rosalind English.

Poppy Rimington-Pounder looks at party election pledges and the Human Rights Act, the Muslim advocacy group CAGE's forthcoming legal battle, a freedom of conscience ruling for members of the armed forces in the Bahamas, and citizenship rights for the children of third country nationals in Europe. Presenter: Rosalind English.

David Hart QC assesses the implications of a recent negligence case involving a young doctor's failure to diagnose a child with meningitis. David Hart is in conversation with Rosalind English.

Rosalind English discusses the recent Supreme Court judgement on the case of women from Northern Ireland who seek abortions on the NHS in England.

Sarah Jane Ewart discusses the latest developments in access to abortion for Northern Irish women, the lessons to be learned from the Charlie Gard case, and the difficult decision that the courts had to reach when considering the best interests of children in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish family, where the father had left the community as a transgender person. Presented by Rosalind English.

David Hart considers the likely impact of the European Withdrawal Bill, and in particular the concerns about the knock on effects it might have on existing environmental standards after BREXIT. Presented by Rosalind English.

Sarah Jane Ewart discusses the recent conviction of breast surgeon Ian Paterson, his victims’ prospects for compensation in the civil courts, the whole issue of consent in this area of surgery, the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and the Gail Newland "catfish” trial, which is another version of the “consent” problem. Presented by Rosalind English.

Marina Wheeler QC explains how the civil courts are approaching radicalisation, the practical problems of introducing the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act, and the role of the family courts in protecting children under the "Prevent" strategy. Presented by Rosalind English.

Rosalind English discusses with David Hart QC a recent challenge to the refusal by the NHS to fund a specialist drug for a child suffering from a metabolic condition.

Tom Beamont talks to Rosalind English about the role artificial intelligence is likely to play in the way lawyers and judges operate in the U.K., including discussion about the use of e-Disclosure, online dispute resolution, and whether advice and decisions can reliably be generated by algorithms.

Rosalind English talks to David Prest about a recent High Court ruling on damages: Can someone who has been rendered infertile claim the costs of surrogacy abroad? A hospital admitted negligence in failing to diagnose the claimant’s cervical cancer. The chemotherapy and radiation treatment which followed rendered her infertile, but just before the treatment, her eggs were harvested and frozen. The court was asked to consider whether damages could include the cost of commercial surrogacy, an arrangement which is not legal in this country.

#legal #negligence #surrogacycosts #WhittingtonHospital

Rosalind English talks to David Prest about a case involving a forged signature, disputed consent, and the claim made by a father for damages in relation to a baby born through IVF using frozen embryos.

#legal #IVF #IVFHammersmith

Martin Downs and Shaheen Rahman QC talk about their experiences of tackling radicalisation in the civil courts, and the use of closed hearings. Recorded at the 2017 Public Law event at King’s College London.

#Publiclawevent #KingsCollegeLondon #radicalisation #closedhearings

Alasdair Henderson and Suzanne Lambert discuss the difficulties around unlawful detention in immigration cases. Recorded at the 2017 Public Law event at King’s College London.

#PublicLawEvent #UnlawfulDetention #KingsCollegeLondon #immigration

Caroline Cross and Rachel Marcus look at the link between inquests and Article Two of the European Convention on Human Rights. Recorded at the 2017 Public Law event at King’s College London.

#PublicLawEvent #Inquests #ArticleTwo #KingsCollegeLondon

Rosalind English discusses a recent ruling in the Court of Protection which gives a patient, who is lacking capacity, the right to seek out experimental medical treatment.

#MedicalRights #CourtofProtection

Theresa May has announced a statutory inquiry into how contaminated blood transfusions infected thousands of people with hepatitis C and HIV. Rosalind English talks to Jim Duffy about how it will differ from earlier investigations.

#ContaminatedBlood #TaintedBlood #JimDuffy #PublicInquiry #HepatitisC #HIVhaemophilia

With ongoing public inquiries into tainted blood and historic child sexual abuse, Matt Hill and Gideon Barth discuss the effectiveness of judge led inquiries with Rosalind English.

#TaintedBlood #PublicInquiries #BloodySundayInquiry #MattHill #GideonBarth #historicchildabuse #legaldiscussion #judges

Rosalind English talks to Charlotte Gilmartin about the implications of a recent High Court ruling overturning Hackney council’s decision to allow permission to demolish part of a historic canal side building.

#HackneyCouncil #HolbornStudios #EagleWharf #CharlotteGilmartin #planningpermission

Following Ofsted winning a judgment against an Islamic co-education state school, Rosalind English talks to Rajkiran Barhey about measuring unlawful discrimination in cases where two groups of students are treated equally, but separately, by their school.

#Ofsted #Segregation #JudicialNotice #Rajkiran Barney #LadyJusticeGloster #SingleSexSchools

In December 2017, the principles of Britain’s divorce from the European Union were agreed, and we now move to what Theresa May has called the “implementation phase”. But, as Professor Catherine Barnard of Cambridge University tells Bonnie Soames, it should really be termed “the transition”.

 #Brexit  #CatherineBarnard  #2903CB

We continue Catherine Barnard's interpretation of the legal obstacles that must be worked out on the way to Brexit Day, on March 29th 2019, and a pain free withdrawal from the EU.

#BrexitDay  #CatherineBarnard    #EUTransition   #EUWithdrawal Bill

The Supreme Court’s ruling on police tactics may have implications for other emergency services, as Isabel McArdle explains to Rosalind English.

#dutyofcare #legalruling #supremecourt #isabelmcardle #robinsoncase #policetactics #WestYorkshirePolice

Rosalind English talks to Jonathan Metzer about how family members of UK citizens, who don't themselves have citizenship, obtain a residence card under EU rules - and how they can appeal if they're refused.

#rightofresidence #JonathanMetzer #onecrownofficerow #legalrulings #EEAcitizenship #citizenshiprights #EuropeanCourtofJustice #Brexit

Hannah Noyce discusses vicarious liability in private hospitals and clinics in a talk recorded at One Crown Office Row's 2018 seminar. 

#vicariousliability #HannahNoyce #privatehospitals #legal #healthcare

Dominic Ruck Keene summarises non-delegable duty in private hospitals and clinics in this extract from his talk at the 2018 One  Crown Office Row seminar.

Jo Moore tells Rosalind English about a recent ruling which means that women who were forced into the sex trade at a younger age don't need to disclose their convictions when applying for jobs which require DBS checks.

Following a claim for hearing loss against the Royal Opera by one of its orchestra members, Rosalind English talks to opera singer and composer Susie Self about the hazards of being a musician playing in the orchestra pit.

#SusieSelf #musicianlegal #hearingloss #RoyalOperaHouse #musiclaw

Imagined case studies featuring Lizanne Gumbel QC, Robert Kellar, John Whitting QC, and Jeremy Hyam QC, Chair: Dame Christina Lambert.  Recorded at the 1 Crown Office Row seminar "Lessons from the Paterson Litigation." February 2018.  Part One of Two.

#privatehospitalsliability #legalhospitals

Imagined case studies featuring Lizanne Gumbel QC, Robert Kellar, John Whitting QC, and Jeremy Hyam QC, Chair: Dame Christina Lambert. Recorded at the 1 Crown Office Row seminar "Lessons from the Paterson Litigation." February 2018. Part Two of Two.

#privatehospitalsliability #legalhospitals

Dominic Ruck-Keene and Rosalind English discuss the latest case involving the internet search engine Google, and an individual’s right to be forgotten.

#righttobeforgotten #google #censorship

Richard Scorer joins Emma-Louise Fenelon to discuss the progress of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

#RichardScorer #independentinquiries #IICSA

Rosalind English discusses with Professor Karen Yeung of Birmingham University the various opportunities and challenges presented to the law by Artificial Intelligence

#Karen Yeung #AI #Artificalintelligence

Matthew Hill discusses the lessons and warnings from the Bloody Sunday inquiry and the Hillsborough inquest in this talk recorded at One Crown Office Row’s 2018 seminar.

#BloodySunday #Hillsborough #MatthewHill #legal #Inquests #Inquiries

Emma-Louise Fenelon discusses the challenges around secrecy, anonymity and public information in major inquests and inquiries in a talk recorded at One Crown Office Row's 2018 seminar. 

#PublicInformation #EmmaLouiseFenelon #legal #Inquests #Inquiries

Gideon Barth discusses when are public inquiries established or inquests reopened in this highlight from One Crown Office Row’s 2018 seminar.

#GideonBarth #legal #Inquests #PublicInquiries

Catherine Barnard of Cambridge University talks to reporter Boni Sones about the progress of the Brexit negotiations two years after the UK narrowly voted to leave the EU in a Referendum on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016.

#BrexitDay #CatherineBarnard #EUTransition #EUWithdrawal Bill 

Richard Booth joins Emma-Louise Fenelon to discuss a successful employment injunction to prevent a gross misconduct disciplinary hearing. 

#RichardBooth #legal #grossmisconduct #disciplinaryhearings #employmentinjunction

Law and Political Science Professor Cary Coglianese from the University of Pennsylvania, and David Lehr, a research affiliate at the Penn Program on Regulation and a student at Yale Law School, join Rosalind English to speculate on how algorithms and artificial intelligence will impact on regulation and adjudication now and in the future.

#AI #Algorithm #CaryCoglianese #DavidLehr #future #regulation #adjudication

Professor Barnard discusses with journalist Boni Sones, her reaction to the publication of the government’s White Paper, the Cabinet resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson, and the negotiating position of the EU since the UK triggered Article 50 in March 2017.

#BrexitDay #CatherineBarnard #EUTransition #EUWithdrawalBill  #TheWhitePaper

Rosalind English talks to Conor Monighan about the theme of the annual Administrative Law Bar Association conference: how does international law influence individual rights, particularly after Brexit?

Rosalind English talks to barrister Clare Ciborowska about the new offence of coercive and controlling behaviour and how it can affect proceedings in the family courts.

#familycourts #familylaw #coerciveandcontrollingbehaviour

Rosalind English discusses the latest GMO ruling in the European Court of Justice with plant geneticist Ottoline Leyser. Professor Leyser considers the problems that come from focussing on the origin of plants rather than their characteristics, and ponders on the alternatives open to the UK after Brexit.

#OttolineLeyser #GMcrops #GMO #PlanetGenetics #EuropeanCourtofJustice

With the party conference season well over, Professor Catherine Barnard talks to journalist Boni Sones about the latest difficulties the prime minister is facing in the Brexit negotiations.

#Brexit #CatherineBarnard #EUTransition #EUWithdrawalBill #ComimissionofInquiry

Professor Catherine Barnard has this exclusive interview with Sir Ivan Rogers, the former UK Ambassador to the EU, following his speech to Trinity College Cambridge last week. They discuss the themes of this speech which can be found in full on the Trinity College website.

#SirIvanRogers #CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #Revolution #Brexit

In Darnley v Croydon NHS Trust [2018] UKSC 50 the Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals are liable for the actions and statements of their non-medical staff in A & E. Rosalind English discusses the implications of this judgment with Owain Thomas QC.

#DarnleyVCroydonNHSTrust #Hospitalliability #Supremecourt #A&E #OwainThomas #RosalindEnglish

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks with Pritesh Rathod about the significance of clinical guidelines in his clinical negligence practice and recent controversy involving maternal choice caesareans, Montgomery and relevant NICE Guidelines.

#NICE #NICEGuidelines #Clinicalguidelines #Clinicalnegligence #PriteshRathod #EmmaLouiseFenelon #Caesaren #Montgomery

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks with Suzanne White, the head of clinical negligence at Leigh Day Solicitors, about recent developments with regards to women’s rights in healthcare and informed consent in the context of childbirth.

#SuzanneWhite #healthcare #informedConsent #1COR #Childbirth #Bolam #Montgomery

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks with 1 Crown Office Row’s Alasdair Henderson about how the UK is tackling issues of human trafficking and modern slavery, both within its own borders and internationally.   

#1COR #HumanTrafficking #ModernSlavery #AlasdairHenderson #HumanRights

Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe, talks to reporter Boni Sones about Theresa May’s draft Withdrawal Agreement.

#CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #Revolution #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement

The first Episode in the Castle Debate about the Environmental Principles and Governance Bill. David Hart QC and Peter Kellet from the Environment Agency consider how this bill addresses the government's obligations for environmental stewardship after we leave the EU. 

#1COR #CastleDebate #Environment #EnvironmentAgency #DavidHart #PeterKellet #EnvironmentAgency #Brexit

Episode two in the Castle Debate series on the Environmental Principles and Governance Bill. Environmental consultant Martin Baxter and Debbie Tripley of the Wordwide Fund For Nature give their views on whether this draft bill is adequate to retain current environmental principles and enforcement mechanisms

#1COR #CastleDebate #Environment #Martin Baxter #DavidHart #DebbieTripley #EnvironmentAgency #Brexit

In this final episode from the Castle environmental debate, Pam Castle OBE takes questions from the floor. In all these discussions concerning environmental law and policy, are we right to avoid the subject of human population?

#1COR #CastleDebate #Environment # MartinBaxter # PamCastle #EnvironmentAgency #Brexit #EnvironmentalLaw

Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Senior Fellow of the UK in a Changing Europe, talks to reporter Boni Sones about the publication of the 26 page political declaration that accompanies the 585 page Withdrawal Agreement.

#CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #PoliticalDeclaration #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks with 1 Crown Office Row’s Suzanne Lambert about a recent High Court decision - YAH v Medway NHS Foundation Trust which addressed the issue of claims brought as a result of psychiatric harm arising out of childbirth.

#1COR #YAHVMedway #NHS #JusticeWhipple #SuzanneLambert #Childbirth

Rosalind English talks to 1 Crown Office Row’s Catriona Murdoch about the ways in which international law may be used to prevent it.

#1COR #LawpodUK #MassStarvation #RosalindEnglish  #CatroinaMurdoch #InternationalLaw 

Jeremy Hyam QC and Emma-Louise Fenelon provide a whistlestop tour of the most significant developments in inquest law in 2018.

#1COR #LawpodUK #InquestLaw #JeremyHyam #EmmaLouiseFenelon

Jonathan Metzer and Emma-Louise Fenelon discuss some of the cases that defined 2018.

To read the accompanying article, go to our human rights blog: 

https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2018/12/20/10-cases-that-defined-2018/

#1COR #LawpodUK #JonathanMetzer #EmmaLouiseFenelon

James Badenoch QC has spent thirty-five years fighting medical negligence cases. He talks to Rosalind English about the "doctor knows best" rule of evidence, and how that has come under attack in recent years.

#1COR #LawpodUK #JamesBadenoch #RosalindEnglish #Bolam #MedicalNegligence

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Mrs Justice Philippa Whipple about the exceptional life and career of the US Supreme Court Justice.

#EmmaLouiseFenelon #MrsJusticeWhipple #RuthBaderGinsburg #USSupremeCourt #RBG #1COR #LapodUK

Last year the High Court ruled out claims against the British Government brought by people caught up in the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya in the 1950s. The allegations of brutality against guards employed by the Colonial Office were time-barred by the half-century that has elapsed since the events took place. Guy Mansfield QC represented the Foreign Office in this litigation and discusses the importance of the Limitation Act with Rosalind English.

#1COR #LapodUK #MauMauUprising #ForeignOffice #GuyMansfield #RosalindEnglish #Litergation #LimitationAct

Do terminally ill patients have the right to die at the time and place of their choosing, with the attendance of a medical practitioner? The ban on assisted suicide has raised one of the great moral questions of our time. The Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying, Sarah Wootton discusses their campaign to change the law with Rosalind English.

#1COR #LapodUK #RightToDie #Assisted Suicide #DignityInDying #SarahWooton #RosalindEnglish

Rosalind English talks to John Whitting QC of 1 Crown Office Row about Montgomery, informed consent and his response to our earlier episode “Doctor Knows Best"

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #JohnWhitting #Montgomery #InformedConsent

Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Robert Kellar and Jeremy Hyam QC discuss appeals by the general medical council. 

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #RobertKeller #JeremyHyam #GMC #GeneralMedicalCouncil #Appeals #Remediation

Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Owain Thomas QC gives a talk entitled - Upholding public confidence argument: is it undermining remediation?

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #OwainThomas #PublicConfidence #Remediation

Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Mathew Barnes asks the question in his talk about remediation - Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #MathewBarnes  #Remediation

Professor Catherine Barnard, discusses the latest Brexit developments as the Prime Minister Theresa May MP and her government were subject to another defeat in Parliament this week.

#CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #GrandCoalition #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement

In the final highlight from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Christopher Mellor discusses the general medical council and when undertakings should be sufficient.  

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #ChristopherMellor #GMC #Undertakings #GeneralMedicalCouncil

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Robert Kellar about consent and causation, discussing the development of the law since Chester v Afshar through to Khan v MNX.

#1COR #LapodUK #EmmaLouiseFenelon #RobertKellar #Consent #Causation

Rosalind English interviews Jacob Turner, barrister and author of a thoroughgoing analysis of the law and its capacity for operating in a world where computers are taking over all the transactions. Is Artificial Intelligence an entirely new legal phenomenon?

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #JacobTurner #ArtificialIntelligence #AIRegulation #MachineLearning

Frances Gibb has retired after nearly forty years as legal journalist and editor, covering everything from Lord Irvine’s pricey wallpaper to the release of the Guildford Four. She talks to Rosalind English about the challenges of reporting on a profession highly sensitive to slips and slights.

#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish  #FrancesGibb  #LegalJournalism

Professor Catherine Barnard, discusses the latest Brexit developments and looks at the options now with just four days to go before the UK was originally set to leave the EU.

#CatherineBarnard #EUWithdrawalBill #GrandCoalition #Brexit #WithdrawalAgreement

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Marina Wheeler QC about the recent Court of Appeal decision in Butt v Secretary of State for the Home Department and the operation of the Prevent Guidance generally.

#1COR #LawpodUK #EmmaLouiseFenelon #MarinaWheeler #CourtofAppeal #PreventGuidance

Rosalind English talks to Cherry James about the Erasmus student programme, the European Commission’s ambitious project for building EU citizenship in higher education.

#1COR #LawpodUK #RosalindEnglish #CherryJames #Erasmus  #EUCitizenship

In this episode Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Rajkiran Barhey about two recent High Court decisions on anonymity.​

#1COR #LawpodUK #EmmaLouiseFenelon #RajkiranBarhey #Anonymity

Rosalind English discusses the new copyright proposals with music lawyer Andrew Lewis

#1COR #LawpodUK #RosalindEnglish #AndrewLewis #copyright #youtube

Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Christopher Mellor about causation in inquests and the findings in R(Chidlow) v HMS Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde [2019] EWHC 581 (Admin)

#1COR #LawpodUK #InquestLaw #ChristopherMellor  #EmmaLouiseFenelon #Chidlow