Yuan Yi Zhu

Yuan Yi Zhu is a writer and academic. He tweets at @yuanyi_z

Libel actions once heard by juries are now exclusively tried by judges alone

Quite unintentionally, Trump has provoked a revival in Canadian nationalism

Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel

It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life

The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power

Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?

The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives

What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?

Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time

Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench