Picture a courtroom in South London. A young man is in the witness box. He is casually dressed, expressing trendy disregard for courtroom niceties. All of a sudden, he valiantly demolishes the fourth wall by leaving the box in the middle of his testimony. The judge, sat in his normal...

This week the Crown Prosecution Service, which is responsible for prosecuting crimes in England and Wales, announced that it would publish guidelines clarifying the law around joint enterprise. This is the common law doctrine, that has existed in English Law for hundreds of years, which allows those present at the...

It is no exaggeration to say that the conviction of David Norris and Gary Dobson for the murder of Stephen Lawrence is symptomatic of a criminal justice system slipping towards totalitarianism.

The alarming disregard that the establishment has shown for the rights of these men should be a catalyst...

On Tuesday the Royal Society published a report called 'Brainwaves and the Law' into how developments in neuroscience may integrate into the legal system. Professor Nicholas Mackintosh of Cambridge University who headed up the report appeared on the BBC's Today #programme on Tuesday morning. From the outset he...