Joanna Hardy-Susskind’s Diary: The endless wait for a day in court, Suella Braverman’s drug nonsense, and a lawyer in the Big Brother house
Unconvicted murderers are not, in fact, more popular than exhausted junior lawyers.
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Why the UK should legalise cannabis
Prohibition does more harm than the drug itself.
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From Jeffrey Dahmer to Adnan Syed: can true crime as entertainment ever be ethical?
Real life crime stories have long been treated as entertainment, but with the rise of global phenomenons like Serial and…
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True crime’s legal pay-offs give it a righteous gloss – but it’s still only shallow, manipulative entertainment
The thrill of the genre is that it lends a factual story a dramatic twist. In fact, it is as…
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The British justice system is broken – and its new IT system is making things worse
Legal professionals have reported instances where the final verdicts for cases added to the new portal have changed unexpectedly.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind’s Diary: Wigs on the picket line and my fight to fix the justice system
Dealing with Dominic Raab is like trying to reason with an ex who’s packed his bags, downloaded Tinder and decided…
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Will subpoenaing Jack Dorsey help Elon Musk win his Twitter trial?
The court case following Musk’s aborted buy-out could have profound consequences for social media and trust in the legal system.
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Wendy Joseph Q&A: “My hero was Sherlock Holmes – I prayed for a mind like his”
Wendy Joseph was born in Cardiff in 1952 and began her career as a criminal barrister in 1975. From 2007…
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