Law in Action
Long-running legal magazine programme, featuring reports and discussion on matters relating to law
Law in Action - 01/07/2008
Clive Coleman explores who should be allowed to plead insanity. As more mentally ill people enter the justice system, is the law is as up-to-date and fair as it should be?
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Law in Action - 02/03/2010
Clive Coleman and a panel of politicians examine some of the key policies on justice.
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Law in Action - 02/10/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 03/02/2009
Lucy Ash reports on how the US is trying to cut reoffending and meets the killers and gang bosses who are now learning business skills from top CEOs.
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Law in Action - 03/03/2009
Focusing on some of the ways in which the law affects children. Plus a report on how children going through care proceedings are being affected by the shortage of guardians.
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Law in Action - 03/06/2008
Clive Coleman looks at legal issues. He asks why universities and students are using the law on everything from attendance at lectures to what clothes are worn to seminars.
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Law in Action - 03/11/2009
Clive Coleman interviews Ken MacDonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, about his five years in the position from 2003 to 2008.
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Law in Action - 04/03/2008
Clive Coleman looks at the legal issues in the news. As courts take more notice of pre-nuptial agreements, he asks if they are now essential for everyone, however wealthy.
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Law in Action - 05/02/2008
Clive Coleman reports on the tension between government and judiciary in Pakistan.
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Law in Action - 06/02/2007
How changes to the law are making it more difficult for unmarried couples who live together to avoid some of the rights and obligations of marriage.
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Law in Action - 06/03/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 06/11/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 07/07/2009
As more evidence emerges of child abuse by religious institutions in Ireland, Clive Coleman examines a scheme set up to provide justice and compensation for victims.
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Law in Action - 08/06/2010
Joshua Rozenberg asks if the police's use of cameras endangers civil liberties or is necessary to prevent crime.
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Law in Action - 08/07/2008
Clive Coleman explores who should be allowed to plead insanity. As more mentally ill people enter the justice system, is the law is as up-to-date and fair as it should be?
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Law in Action - 09/03/2010
Clive Coleman and guests examine the proposed reforms of the UK's bribery laws. Recent cases, like the BAE Systems settlement, and key issues around the Bribery Bill are discussed.
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Law in Action - 09/10/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 09/11/2010
GCHQ's former top lawyer reveals why phone tap evidence should not be admissible in terrorist trials. Plus ought lawyers to be paid out of the compensation their clients receive?
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Law in Action - 10/02/2008
A special report on the challenges and opportunities created by parallel religious legal systems.
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Law in Action - 10/02/2009
Clive Coleman reports on legal issues behind the headlines, investigating what happens when human rights collide, and when and where you can take a photo in public.
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Law in Action - 10/03/2009
Reporting on the problems faced by governments prosecuting pirates captured at sea. The world's navies have joined forces to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia.
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Law in Action - 10/06/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. The legal process depends upon accurate recollection of events, but just how reliable are our memories?
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Law in Action - 10/11/2009
The programme visits the mental health court pilot in Brighton and takes a look at Mental Health Treatment orders and the problems faced by defendants with mental health problems.
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Law in Action - 11/03/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. He examines the process of judicial review, how it works and how it will change our lives in the future.
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Law in Action - 12/02/2008
The US Supreme Court's Justice Antonin Scalia talks to Clive Coleman about terrorists and torture, abortion, the legal image of the US abroad and how judges judge.
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Law in Action - 13/02/2007
Clive Coleman looks at how the law on children's evidence has changed in the 20 years since the Cleveland scandal.
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Law in Action - 13/03/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 13/11/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 15/06/2010
As the Lord Chancellor considers ways of cutting the number of people in prison, Joshua Rozenberg asks if the judges should save money by changing the way they sentence offenders.
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Law in Action - 15/07/2008
Clive Coleman talks to Lord Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls, a judge who has perhaps done more than anyone else in the past 15 years to shape British law.
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Law in Action - 16/03/2010
Clive Coleman speaks to the President of the International Criminal Court, and examines the Dangerous Dogs Act and the surprisingly intense relationship between poetry and the law.
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Law in Action - 16/06/2009
Clive Coleman explores the age of criminal responsibility and asks if criminalising young people at an early age is the best response to child crime.
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Law in Action - 16/10/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 17/02/2009
After winning his case against the News of the World, FIA boss Max Mosley tells Clive Coleman about wanting the law changed so that journalists who breach privacy could face jail.
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Law in Action - 17/03/2009
Clive Coleman explores the acute knife crime problems on the streets and how both young people and the police want to tackle them.
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Law in Action - 17/06/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. He asks what the police and prosecutors can do to get frightened witnesses to give evidence in court.
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Law in Action - 18/03/2008
Clive Coleman looks at the legal issues in the news. He asks how the prosecution of sexual offences can be made more effective and what changes to the law are needed.
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Law in Action - 20/01/2009
Clive Coleman and a panel of experts discuss the idea that human rights might extend beyond humans, asking whether rights exist for animals, the environment and even robots.
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Law in Action - 20/02/2007
Clive Coleman visits new community criminal courts in Liverpool and Salford and asks Lord Falconer about his plan to extend the model to other parts of England and Wales.
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Law in Action - 20/03/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 20/10/2009
Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has created a more open society and changed the culture of government.
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Law in Action - 22/01/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 22/06/2010
The police say there is a link between the World Cup and domestic violence. Joshua Rozenberg ask whether the claim is based on evidence or an urban myth.
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Law in Action - 22/07/2008
Clive Coleman looks at the function of county courts, who deal with much of the sharp end of human life, from mortgage repossessions to domestic violence.
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Law in Action - 23/02/2010
Clive Coleman looks at super-injunctions and what the recent John Terry case says about the development and limitations of privacy law.
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Law in Action - 23/06/2009
Clive Coleman examines the law governing what happens to your body when you are dead and what it means for people who want to give away - or even sell - bits of themselves.
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Law in Action - 23/09/2008
Reporter Mukul Devichand investigates the plausibility of the claim that the medieval Islamic world influenced the 13th-century foundations of English common law.
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Law in Action - 23/10/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 24/03/2009
As the recession hits jobs, Clive Coleman spends a day finding out exactly how an employment tribunal works.
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Law in Action - 24/06/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. He explores what goes on before a trial and what prosecution and defence reveal to one another.
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Law in Action - 25/03/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. He explores the law on defamation.
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Law in Action - 25/09/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 26/02/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. As ministers pledge to review the laws on coroners and their courts, he asks how inquests today should work.
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Law in Action - 26/06/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 27/01/2009
Clive Coleman investigates the future of the legal profession, faced with the twin threats of new technology and the credit crunch.
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Law in Action - 27/02/2007
Clive Coleman analyses the major legal stories and uncovers the ones that haven't yet hit the headlines.
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Law in Action - 27/03/2007
Clive Coleman presents a special discussion on intellectual property law, recorded in front of an audience at Queen Mary, University of London.
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Law in Action - 27/05/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. He asks if forensic scientific evidence is given too much weight in prosecuting crime.
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Law in Action - 27/10/2009
Clive Coleman talks to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, about sentencing, the viability of short prison sentences and the problems of access to justice in the civil courts.
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Law in Action - 29/01/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 29/06/2010
Cuts to legal aid are looming and many criminal law solicitors look set to lose their jobs as a result. But do we need so many criminal lawyers? Joshua Rozenberg investigates.
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Law in Action - 29/07/2008
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues. He asks if there can be a right to food and how might such a right be enforced.
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Law in Action - 30/06/2009
Clive Coleman examines the powerful legal doctrine of 'joint enterprise', which enables entire groups of people to be prosecuted for murder.
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Law in Action - 30/09/2008
Clive Coleman examines a key case which tested new rules on bogus marriages, and investigates Barack Obama's past as a law professor. Plus a tour of the Old Bailey.
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Law in Action - 30/10/2007
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - 31/03/2009
Clive Coleman asks why the government wants radical changes to the law on murder and on inquests in cases where the state is involved.
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Law in Action - Episode 1
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 2
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 3
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 4
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 5
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 6
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 7
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 8
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Episode 9
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Law in Action - Interview with Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP
Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP, the new Justice Secretary, is interviewed in front of an audience at Gray's Inn by presenter Joshua Rozenberg.
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Clive Coleman interviews former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer about whether archived internet stories bearing on pending criminal cases should be removed from the web.
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Law in Action - Military justice
Joshua Rozenberg looks at the issue of military justice and asks whether revelations about the misconduct of British soldiers in Iraq means the system needs further reform.
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Law in Action - Nature
The Plum Prospects for Orchard Conservation: Traditional orchards in England are now being proposed as a priority habitat. Brett Westwood considers the implications.
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Law in Action - Nature
A Hundred Years of British Birds: Arguably the most influential journal of its genre, British Birds reaches its hundredth birthday in June. Brett Westwood looks back at its history.
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Law in Action - Nature
Unearthing Buried Rivers: Paul Evans reports on the rebirth of the urban waterway, reducing flooding and pollution and creating a better environment for people and animals to live.
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Law in Action - Nature
The Beetles: Here, There and Everywhere. Paul Evans explains his life-long fascination with beetles and celebrates the myriad world of these extraordinary creatures.
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Law in Action - Nature
The Spring Blog: A colourful and delightful diary of spring created by Paul Evans and the Nature audience on the programme's blog to coincide with Springwatch on BBC2.
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Law in Action - Nature
Spring Songbird Special: As part of the BBC's Springwatch event, Grant Sonnex presents the programme from the RSPB's reserve at Minsmere in Suffolk.
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Law in Action - What next for the family courts?
In the first of a new series Joshua Rozenberg examines the problems facing the family courts, and speaks to the Head of the Family Court Division Sir Nicholas Wall.
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