Reviews

We review the educational charity’s latest report in which embryonic law students investigate and propose law reform on various topics.
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Paul Magrath reviews a useful primer on an increasingly critical matter for lawyers. … Continue reading

Paul Magrath reviews a book by the founder of Bellingcat, explaining the history, work and future of the online investigative agency.… Continue reading

We swim in a sea of data. Our digital devices know where we’ve been, who we’ve communicated with, what we’ve looked at and how we’ve responded. As a result, each one of us is an open book. An open Facebook, indeed, or something similar. And we’ve allowed this to happen because we wanted to have… Continue reading

“I have tasted the bitterness of injustice” Mahmood Mattan tells the imam who visits him in jail, as he awaits his execution for a crime we now know he did not commit.  Mattan, a Somali seaman who has settled in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, has been fingered for the murder of Violet Volacki, a Jewish shopkeeper,… Continue reading

The Prorogation Case of 2019 forms both the centrepiece of the latest Supreme Court Yearbook, and the climax of a glittering legal career for the court’s president, Lady Hale, whose autobiography Paul Magrath reviews alongside… Continue reading

David Burrows reviews Amnesty International’s handbook of children’s rights co-written by Angelina Jolie and Geraldine Van Bueren QC, and finds this protest manual to be curiously lacking in actual legal advice… Continue reading

Paul Magrath gets ready to gasp and stretch his eyes as the veteran political commentator takes him on a guided tour of contemporary political mendacity.
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