@nicolamonaghan.bsky.social
Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester teaching Criminal Law and Evidence. Author. Research interest in the jury. PhD student at the University of Northampton.
Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
14.08.2025 16:03 — 👍 21 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 4@edjohnston.bsky.social
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Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
14.08.2025 16:03 — 👍 21 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 4
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!
06.05.2025 10:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Court Usher vacancy Worcester, Kidderminster
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
Great opportunity to become a Judicial Assistant with the UK Supreme Court and Privy Council: www.supremecourt.uk/working-for-...
28.02.2025 20:57 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0More 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?
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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.
Read more⬇️
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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.
More details below
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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...
15.01.2025 22:14 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started rhe Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...
15.01.2025 21:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Includes 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
doi.org/10.1080/0306...
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...
14.01.2025 13:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pleased to see that the Law Commission are looking at the law on homicide in 2025: lawcom.gov.uk/project/revi...
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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
13.01.2025 22:04 — 👍 76 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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.
www.channel4.com/news/barbara...
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.
Volunteering opportunities for both law students and academics available here: www.bvl.org.uk/volunteer-su...
14.01.2025 08:02 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
⚖️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.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/3BURRJr
a very mixed picture on open justice here from the excellent @kirkkorner.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cour...
11.01.2025 17:16 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Interested in becoming a solicitor member of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee?
If so, see:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8443
Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025
#UKlegal #CPRC
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...
11.01.2025 15:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...
🚨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...
10.01.2025 12:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If 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 😀
www.routledge.com/Controversie...
Sad story about the state of our courts
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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.
