Let the people decide
Libel actions once heard by juries are now exclusively tried by judges alone
Finding true north
Quite unintentionally, Trump has provoked a revival in Canadian nationalism
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Who to free — killers or rapists?
The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
