Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics

Ken Macdonald KC, Tim Owen KC

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Booking Overview

Interview-led legal and political analysis focused on UK law, justice, human rights and constitutional issues, typically featuring senior barristers, legal authorities and public-sector leaders alongside the hosts' expert commentary. Credible pitches include leading KCs, judges or former judges, legal academics, justice officials, human-rights specialists and media-law experts with direct experience of major cases or institutional reform; booking is very difficult because guests are highly prominent specialists.

Metrics

Episodes: 160

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: United Kingdom

Contact Information

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Host

Ken Macdonald KC - Barrister and former Director of Public Prosecutions, serving from 2003 to 2008. He is a former Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and a prominent advocate of civil liberties and the rule of law.

Tim Owen KC - Barrister with more than four decades of experience in significant public, criminal and human-rights law cases.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Senior barristers, leading legal specialists, justice-sector leaders and public officials with direct expertise in major cases, legal institutions, human rights, media law or criminal justice reform.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership of a major justice or legal institution, Involvement in high-profile legal cases, Senior counsel or King's Counsel status, Expertise in significant public-policy or human-rights issues

Recent Guest Discussions

Zoe McCallum - AI Export Controls, Cyber-security, AI Sovereignty, The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On UK Law And The Delivery Of Justice, And Judicial Independence.

Gavin Millar KC - The Prince Harry V Daily Mail Judgment, Privacy And Unlawful Information-gathering Claims, Propensity Evidence, Appeal Prospects And Freedom Of The Press.

Vera Baird KC - Reforming The CCRC, Miscarriages Of Justice, Institutional Management, Criminal-law Expertise, The Statutory Test For Referrals And Lessons From The Andrew Malkinson Case.

Recent Topics

Law, Politics, Human Rights, Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
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Making Sense of Murder: The Law Commission Proposes Radical Reforms to UK Homicide Law

August 12, 2026

The Law Commission for England and Wales is currently consulting on reform of the antiquated common law of homicide (murder and manslaughter) with a view to addressing long-standing criticisms that the current legal system is outdated, overly complex and fails accurately and fairly to distinguish between varying degrees of culpability (https://lawcom.gov.uk/project/law-of-homicide/). On Double Jeopardy, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC provide expert legal commentary on the implications fo...

Andy Burnham, Law and UK Justice: What’s in Store?

July 29, 2026

The Burnham purge of the Cabinet has resulted in radical personnel changes in the Ministry of Justice and among the Law Officers, with the departures of David Lammy, Lord Hermer KC, Baroness Levitt KC and Lord Timpson. Their replacements are all less experienced legally and politically, less well known and consequently lacking in political weight. To discuss the implications of these developments for UK law and politics, the rule of law, sentencing and prisons policy, Double Jeopardy hosts...

Losing Control of AI Under Trump: Will the EU Fight Back? Plus the Court of Appeal Turns on the Attorney General

July 22, 2026

In this episode of Double Jeopardy, the 12th June decision of the Trump administration to issue an export control directive forcing AI giant Anthropic to suspend access to its new AI tool Fable 5 "by any foreign national including one in the USA" on the basis of national security concerns triggered a huge current affairs debate in the EU about AI sovereignty, with former French PM Attal likening the shutdown to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. To offer expert legal commentary on th...

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