Nicola Monaghan

Jury-free trials recommended to save courts from 'collapse' — BBC News A senior judge recommends a shake-up of the system, but some barristers argue juries are essential for fair justice.

Jury-free trials recommended to save courts from ‘collapse’ - BBC News

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I am really excited about the publication of the 8th edition of my textbook, Criminal Law Directions. Thank you to the fabulous team at Oxford University Press for helping to get this edition over the finish line!

Court Usher vacancy Worcester, Kidderminster
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Judicial assistant recruitment - UK Supreme Court Judicial assistant recruitment

Great opportunity to become a Judicial Assistant with the UK Supreme Court and Privy Council: www.supremecourt.uk/working-for-...

More dispatches from the UK criminal justice crisis - experts having cases re-listed for July 2027 (they're often a few years old already). Will they even still be employed or working then? Who can possibly predict. How can this even pretend to be a functioning justice system?

Person in a business suit standing in front of a brick building with a logo of The Bar Council in the corner. The title of the blog is written at the bottom, it reads: legal education in schools can create a better society.

In this new blog, Bar course student Olivia Hardiman shares her experience of volunteering with national education charity Young Citizens as part of The Big Legal Lesson – a campaign to start a conversation about rights, responsibilities, and the rule of law in schools.

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Announcement: #PhD #Scholarhship in #Crimology @ @monashuniversity.bsky.social in #Melbourne, Australia

Topics: #policing #punishment #restorativejustice #criminaljustice #hatecrime #genderbasedviolence #cybercrime

Deadline 16 Feb 26.

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Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started the Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...

Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started rhe Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...

Man in Brazil wrongly charged with 62 crimes after police use flawed photo ID Police relied on showing photo of Paulo Alberto da Silva Costa, wrongly jailed for years, to victims to identify him as an alleged perpetrator

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Includes a just published online and open access piece by my UoPLaw colleague Prof Caroline Strevens (and Emma Jones) on perceptions of wellbeing among heads of UK law schools

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Interesting case on jury misconduct from New South Wales: R v Tembeleski (No2) [2024] NWSDC 504. Jury discharged after a juror brought a Law dictionary into the jury room & no other juror raised the judge's direction not to conduct research. www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/192...

Pleased to see that the Law Commission are looking at the law on homicide in 2025: lawcom.gov.uk/project/revi...

The top of a jury duty summons that has been chewed up

Your honor I know how this sounds but my dog literally tried to eat my jury duty summons

Barbara Mills KC on being first Black Chair of the Bar For the first time in its 131 year history, the Bar Council which represents barristers in England and Wales has appointed the first black woman to lead the organisation.

Watch our new Chair Barbara Mills KC on Channel 4 News. In her first broadcast interview, she spoke to Ayshah Tull about her priorities for the justice system and the year ahead.
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Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy.

It began under the last government, and continues under this one.

Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.

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Volunteer to deliver The Big Legal Lesson in a local school - Young Citizens Help us start a conversation about the law in schools The Big Legal Lesson is back! Since 2020, our...

⚖️Almost 2/3 of the UK don’t know their basic legal rights. Want to help change that?

Young Citizens is looking for volunteers to deliver the Big Legal Lesson. Help those at your local schools and colleges engage in conversation about the law and human rights.

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Crisis in courts has opened the door to secret justice In a criminal justice system mired in crisis and beset by delays and backlogs, why are courts becoming more secretive? Tristan Kirk investigates how the public, journalists, and even defendants are be...

a very mixed picture on open justice here from the excellent @kirkkorner.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cour...

Interested in becoming a solicitor member of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee?

If so, see:

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Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025

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Great opportunity to join the Law Commission as a Research Assistant. Setpember 2025 start date. Details can be found here: lawcom.gov.uk/our-work/res...

So, 2025 is the year that I get to introduce/inflict my new pseudonymous pen name - S.J. Fleet.

And send this little critter out into the world.

August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).

And good Lord I’m terrified.

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

Are our courts capable of dealing with vulnerable children?

In this episode, Aika Stephenson and Danielle Manson join us to discuss which cases go to court, how children are treated and how courts could be more child friendly.

🎧Listen now! pod.fo/e/29bea1

Magistrates’ Association's response to the sentencing review consultation www.magistrates-association.org.uk/wp-content/u...

If you are currently formulating an idea for a book that engages with US Constitutional Law you might consider the Routledge Series I co-edit, ‘Controversies in American Constitutional Law’. Feel free to get in touch to discuss your book idea 😀

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Freezing cells and dripping ceilings - sad truth about the state of our court Freezing cold cells mean justice is not being met in Nottingham

Sad story about the state of our courts

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ChatGPT similarly makes things up for the hell of it.

I tested it a while back with information I knew to be very much in the public domain.

It’s basically just like that bad tutor you had at university who, instead of saying ‘I don’t know’ would say utter bollocks with an air of authority.

Free Therapy Pilot For Jurors Receives Little Take Up Ministers are being urged to change the law to allow jurors to discuss their experiences with counsellors after a free therapy pilot scheme saw lit...

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Justice committee: Lord chancellor pledges extra 2,000 court sitting days - as it happened Shabana Mahmood makes her first appearance before MPs on the select committee as lord chancellor and justice secretary.

It is a pity the government had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this bare minimum. But it is at least a start.

Now what about the chronic lack of criminal barristers causing serious trials to be delayed for years? Any ideas, Lord Chancellor?

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The World This Weekend - Bashar al-Assad flees Syria - BBC Sounds The latest analysis following the end of over 50 years of the Assad regime.

A pleasure to be on Radio 4 recently.
Speaking on court backlogs,delays of trials for 2-4 years.Called for a reversal of cuts to the court sitting days (days when courts are open). As did the Lady Chief Justice. Yesterday there was an increase of 2000 days.Scroll 21.08

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