Double Jeopardy Podcast
1) Listeners’ Mailbag: Tariffs, Hunger Strikes and Undermining the Parole Board
In this week’s episode Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC discuss a wide range of issues affecting UK law and politics and answer some listeners’ questions. Does Elon Musk’s climbdown over Grok’s ...Show More
2) Venezuela, Greenland and The Donroe Doctrine: Power without Law
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says of President Trump that “the part he likes about the phrase ‘Donroe Doctrine” is the word ‘Don’ - he doesn’t do doctrine” but the abduction of the si...Show More
3) UK Law and Politics 2025-2026: What’s Happened and What’s Coming Next
To start the New Year, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined once again by the UK’s leading legal journalist and author of the daily blog, A Lawyer Writes, Joshua Rozenberg, to review some key i...Show More
4) Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 2- Empire, Neglect and the Dilemma of the Pitcairn Sex Trials
In Part 2 of their discussion with retired New Zealand High Court Judge and former Chief Crown Prosecutor for Auckland, Simon Moore KC, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC discuss the extraordinary Pitca...Show More
5) Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 1- Blazing a Trail for Criminal Justice Reform
In Part 1 of a special holiday release of Double Jeopardy, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined by the former New Zealand High Court Judge and Chief Crown Prosecutor for Auckland, Simon Moore K...Show More
Living in the Southern Ocean: Part 1- Blazing a Trail for Criminal Justice Reform
31:41 | Dec 27th, 2025
6) Mr Lammy Goes to Strasbourg- and our Christmas Listeners’ Postbag on Jury Reforms
As the UK joins 26 other Council of Europe States in calling for a rebalancing of the European Convention on Human Rights as between the individual rights of irregular migrants and the public interest...Show More
Mr Lammy Goes to Strasbourg- and our Christmas Listeners’ Postbag on Jury Reforms
38:48 | Dec 17th, 2025
7) Swapping Judges For Juries: Will This Really Be Swifter And Fairer?
Are the Government’s proposals radically to reduce a citizen’s right to trial by jury a “swift and fair plan to get justice for victims”, as the MoJ press release declared on 2nd December, or a poorly...Show More
8) We'll Be Right Back: This Week's Episode Will Be Out on Friday, 12 December
Hello listeners, Thanks to bad weather delaying Tim’s flight from the USA, this week’s episode with Riel Karmy-Jones KC and Chris Henley KC will be released on Friday, 12 December. We appreciate your...Show More
We'll Be Right Back: This Week's Episode Will Be Out on Friday, 12 December
01:18 | Dec 10th, 2025
9) Are the Courts Flinching on Article 8? And Who’s Trying to Kill the Assisted Dying Bill in the House of Lords?
Does the Judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Palestinian Family case of IA & others v. Home Secretary - https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IA.MediaSummary.Final_.pdf - indicate tha...Show More
10) Is the Right To Jury Trial Just History? And is the House of Lord’s Assisted Dying Filibuster an Attack on Democracy?
As the Courts Minister, Sarah Sackman, announces the Government’s intention to enact most of the recommendations in Sir Brian Leveson’s Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, including the aboliti...Show More