Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss cancellation and the politics of gender with criminologist Professor Jo Phoenix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken and Tim discuss growing calls for more openness in the family court system with Chair of the Transparency Project, Lucy Reed KC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen talk to victorious leading counsel for the post masters and mistresses, Patrick Green KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the Safety of Rwanda Bill and a parliament in wonderland with former Head of the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones KC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss access to law and legal aid deserts with past President of the Law Society, I. Stephanie Boyce Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss demonstrations, terror and the spectre of hate with Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss political reform and the disaster of Britain’s prisons with Convenor of the Commission on Political Power, Frances Crook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a special episode, we discuss the Supreme Court’s Rwanda ruling and the government’s response with legal commentator, Adam Wagner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss sentencing, prisons and lefty lawyers with Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Alex Chalk KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a special edition, Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss secret trials and promises to Parliament with leading Special Advocate, Angus McCullough KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences with leading fraud Barrister, Ian Winter KC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the threat and promise of Artificial Intelligence with world-leading Computer Scientist, Professor Stuart Russell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss Andrew Malkinson and miscarriages of justice with former Solicitor General Lord Edward Garnier KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the UK’s prickly relationship to the European Court of Human Rights with former President of the Court, Robert Spano Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the constitutional crisis in Israel with Times columnist and public commentator Melanie Phillips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss newspaper ethics, private lives and the outing of Huw Edwards with leading media barrister Gavin Millar KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen debate ethics, the cab rank rule and regulating ex-Judges with Professor of Law and Professional Ethics Richard Moorhead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss lawyers undermining the rule of law, the fall of Nadhim Zahawi, and the morality of paying tax with founder of Tax Policy Associates, Dan Neidle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss bankers, cover ups and a quest for justice with BBC Economics Correspondent, Andy Verity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken and Tim discuss intolerance, Stonewall and free speech in universities with employment lawyer and author of the Reindorf Report, Akua Reindorf KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken and Tim discuss free will, assisted dying and parliamentary paralysis with Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying, Sarah Wootton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss judges, power and parliamentary sovereignty with head of Policy Exchange's Judicial Power Project, Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss spies committing crimes and how to get rid of the death penalty with Director of Reprieve, Maya Foa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the Online Safety Bill and its threat to free speech on the internet with Chief Legal Counsel to the Free Speech Union, Dr Bryn Harris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss Louise Casey’s incendiary report on the Metropolitan Police with crime and policing expert Harvey Redgrave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the decline of legal reporting, populism and small boats with leading legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the Scottish Gender Bill and its potential impact on women’s rights with leading equality and discrimination barrister Karon Monaghan KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the refugee crisis and its legal and political implications with leading immigration and asylum lawyer and former High Court judge, Sir Nicholas Blake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss media assaults on lawyers, improving diversity at the Bar, and why lawyers shouldn’t be State investigators with new Bar Chair, Nick Vineall KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss lawmaking, Myra Hindley, Arsenal FC and the weakening of parliamentary scrutiny with celebrated barrister Lord David Pannick KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss Dominic Raab and his Bill of Rights, reforming the office of Lord Chancellor, and why barristers were right to go on strike with former Secretary of State for Justice, Sir Robert Buckland KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss Rishi Sunak’s post-festive legal headaches with Sir Jonathan Jones KC, former head of the Government Legal Department Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss injustice, progress and the days of police impunity with legal legend Helena Kennedy KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss fraud, corruption and a failure of justice with leading barrister Clare Montgomery KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss prison, parole and a relentless punishment arms race with Andrea Coomber KC, CEO of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss rights, politicians and populist attacks on the judges with Baroness Hale of Richmond, former President of the UK Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss SLAPPs, oligarchs, press regulation and the legend that was George Carman QC with leading media lawyer Hugh Tomlinson KC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss Africa’s rise, and why many Africans sympathise with Russia, with Harvard academic Hakeem Belo-Osagie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the chaos in Westminster, the resignation of Suella Braverman, and the threat of further cuts to the justice system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the dangerous erosion of the rule of law under post Brexit Conservative governments with former Attorney General Dominic Grieve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the rightward lunge of the US Supreme Court with Lissa Muscatine, former Director of Speechwriting at the White House, Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Advisor to Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the collapse of the Bill of Rights legislation and the inquiry into Boris Johnson’s contempt of Parliament with Murray Hunt, Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss the mysterious way Supreme Court Justices are appointed with Dinah Rose KC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss press freedom and the right to privacy with Pia Sarma, the Editorial Legal Director, Times newspapers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss Liz Truss, filming criminal trials, and the Allison Bailey judgment affirming legal protection for gender-critical views. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen talk to Edward Fitzgerald QC about crime, punishment, God, redemption and the ethics of defending bad people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen talk to philosopher Professor Kathleen Stock about science, gender and the importance of free speech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Macdonald and Tim Owen discuss what the Conservative leadership election may mean for rights and the rule of law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak to Sir Jonathan Jones, former Head of the Government Legal Department, who resigned because he thought ministers shouldn’t break the law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices