Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
A podcast by Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC - Wednesdays
96 Episodes
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Fake News on Asylum, The Battle to Define Human Rights Law, and Labour’s New UK Politics
Published: 4/16/2025 -
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?
Published: 4/9/2025 -
Two Tier Justice, Mass Migration, and a Pound Shop Trump in the UK Parliament
Published: 4/2/2025 -
Lucy Letby’s Victims Strike Back: Identification Evidence, Miscarriages of Justice and Legal System Insights into How UK Juries Reach their Verdicts
Published: 3/26/2025 -
Judicial Independence, Human Rights Law and Political Hypocrisy: Breaking Down the 6 Page Letter from the Sentencing Council Chair
Published: 3/19/2025 -
Amending the Assisted Dying Bill and the Sentencing Council Under Attack
Published: 3/12/2025 -
Labour’s Criminal Justice: Performance or Reality?
Published: 3/5/2025 -
Why Sentencing is Out of Control
Published: 2/26/2025 -
Immigration, Asylum and Liberal Democracy
Published: 2/19/2025 -
Lucy Letby: The Experts Break Cover
Published: 2/12/2025 -
The Stolen Honour of Andrew Malkinson
Published: 2/5/2025 -
Southport, Terrorism and Whole Life Tariffs
Published: 1/29/2025 -
Listening to Criminals
Published: 1/22/2025 -
Foreign Interference in the Age of TikTok and Musk
Published: 1/15/2025 -
Spies, Royals and Elon Musk
Published: 1/8/2025 -
Review of the Year with Joshua Rozenberg
Published: 12/18/2024 -
Getting Away with Murder?
Published: 12/11/2024 -
Judges and the Power of Life and Death
Published: 12/4/2024 -
Politics, Religion and Assisted Dying
Published: 11/27/2024 -
The Daily Mail Goes to Strasbourg
Published: 11/20/2024
The prosecution: Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC The defendant: British politics, the legal system and the media. The charges: You’ll have to listen to find out. With decades of experience behind them, Ken and Tim bring you an insider’s analysis of the latest legal battles, high-profile cases, and emerging political issues happening across Britain. This is ‘Double Jeopardy’, The Law and Politics Podcast.