Double Jeopardy Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) Trump Versus The BBC, and Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Crackdown
Is Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for $1billion in a Florida Court over the Panorama documentary just another example of his baseless, abusive use of the Courts to intimidate media companies? And shou...Show More
6) Labour Goes To Denmark - And Why Are We Releasing Prisoners By Mistake?
Is Shabana Mahmood’s proposed overhaul of immigration policies, modelled on Denmark’s stringent system, likely to go too far? As the Justice Secretary sends officials to Denmark to study its famously ...Show More
7) Emily Thornberry and the Great China Spy Trial Mystery
Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC are joined by Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Dame Emily Thornberry, to discuss the evidence given to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strat...Show More
8) Lifting the Lid on the Home Office: Crashed, Repaired, or Still Unfit for Purpose?
Does Shabana Mahmood, like Dominic Cummings before her, believe that the Home Office is a broken, dysfunctional bureaucratic institution that needs a radical overhaul? In this week’s episode Ken M...Show More
9) Why Did The Chinese Spying Case Really Collapse? Double Jeopardy Receives a Leaked Copy of the Defence’s Expert Report and an Exclusive Interview With Its Author, Professor Kerry Brown (who was not the source of the leak!)
With the China spying case continuing to generate headlines, mystery and yet more uncertainty surrounding the true reason for the DPP’s decision to drop charges against Chris Cash and Chris Berry unde...Show More
10) Can Jenrick Go Any Lower? Plus Palestine Action, Chinese Spying and Burning the Koran
In the wake of Robert Jenrick’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference likening Attorney General Lord Hermer KC to a “Mafia lawyer”, accusing him and Keir Starmer of treason in relation to the C...Show More