Law in Action
Long-running legal magazine programme, featuring reports and discussion on matters relating to law
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Law in Action
Clive Coleman explores the the issue of who should be allowed to plead insanity.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman and a panel of politicians examine some of the key policies on justice.
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Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
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Lucy Ash reports on how the US is trying to cut reoffending.
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Focusing on some of the ways in which the law affects children.
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Clive Coleman asks why universities and students are using the law on so many issues.
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Clive Coleman interviews Ken MacDonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Clive Coleman asks if pre-nuptial agreements are now essential for everyone, however rich.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman reports on the tension between government and judiciary in Pakistan.
Law in Action
Legal programme, looking at the changing rights of unmarried couples.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Examining compensation for victims of child abuse by religious institutions in Ireland.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
Law in Action
Joshua Rozenberg asks if the police's use of cameras endangers civil liberties.
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Our senior judges are independent, but are they sufficiently in touch with public opinion?
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Clive Coleman and guests explore the proposed reforms of the UK's bribery laws.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
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GCHQ's ex-top lawyer says why phone tap evidence should not be used in terrorist trials.
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A special report on the challenges and opportunities created by parallel legal systems.
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What happens when human rights collide, and when and where you can take a photo in public.
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Reporting on the problems faced by governments prosecuting sea pirates.
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The legal process depends upon our recollection of events, but how reliable are memories?
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The programme visits the mental health court pilot in Brighton.
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Clive Coleman examines the process of judicial review and how it will affect our lives.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
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The US Supreme Court's Justice Antonin Scalia talks to Clive Coleman.
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A look at how the law on children's evidence has changed since the Cleveland scandal.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
Law in Action
Joshua Rozenberg asks if spending cuts will mean that sentencing policy is set to change.
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Clive Coleman talks to Lord Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls.
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Clive Coleman looks at the International Criminal Court and the Dangerous Dogs Act.
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Clive Coleman explores the age of criminal responsibility.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
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Clive Coleman talks to FIA president Max Mosley about privacy laws.
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Clive Coleman explores the acute knife crime problems on the streets.
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Clive Coleman asks what can be done to get frightened witnesses to give evidence in court.
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Clive Coleman asks how the prosecution of sexual offences can be made more effective.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
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Clive Coleman discusses the idea that human rights might extend beyond humans.
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Clive Coleman visits new style community criminal courts in Liverpool and Salford.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Clive Coleman asks if the Freedom of Information Act has created a more open society.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Joshua Rozenburg investigates an alleged link between the World Cup and domestic violence.
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Clive Coleman looks at the function of county courts.
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Examining super-injunctions and what the recent John Terry case says about privacy law.
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Clive Coleman examines the law governing what happens to your body when you are dead.
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Examining the claim that medieval Islam influenced the foundations of English common law.
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Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman reports on legal issues behind the headlines.
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Clive Coleman spends a day finding out exactly how an employment tribunal works.
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Clive explores what goes on before a trial and what protagonists reveal to each other.
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Clive Coleman explores the law on defamation.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at legal issues in the news.
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Clive Coleman asks how inquests should work.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
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Clive Coleman investigates the future of the legal profession.
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Clive Coleman analyses the major legal stories.
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Clive Coleman presents a special discussion on intellectual property law.
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Clive Coleman asks if forensic evidence is given too much weight in prosecuting crime.
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Clive Coleman talks to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Joshua Rozenberg asks if too many lawyers are trying to live off criminal legal aid.
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Clive Coleman asks if there can be a right to food and how might such a right be enforced.
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Clive Coleman examines the powerful legal doctrine of 'joint enterprise'.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at legal issues.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes a look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman asks why the government wants radical changes to the law on murder.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news.
Law in Action
Joshua Rozenberg questions Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke about the government's plans.
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Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer on archived internet stories and contempt of court.
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Joshua Rozenberg looks at the issue of military justice.
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The Plum Prospects for Orchard Conservation: Brett Westwood on new conservation measures.
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A Hundred Years of British Birds: Brett Westwood on the history of the magazine.
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Paul Evans reports on the rebirth of the urban waterway.
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Paul Evans explains his fascination with beetles and celebrates their myriad world.
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A colourful diary of spring created by Paul Evans.
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Grant Sonnex presents the programme from the RSPB's reserve at Minsmere in Suffolk.
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Joshua Rozenberg speaks to the head of the Family Court Sir Nicholas Wall.