Double Jeopardy - UK Law and Politics
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Episodes: 167
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: United Kingdom
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matrix@matrixlaw.co.uk
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Ken Macdonald KC - Former Director of Public Prosecutions from 2003 to 2008, former Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and a leading voice on civil liberties and the rule of law.
Tim Owen KC - Barrister with experience in many significant public, criminal, and human rights law cases over four decades.
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Gavin Millar KC - Investigative Journalism, Undercover Operations, Entrapment, Electoral Offences, Political-party Finance, Journalistic Ethics, And The Powers Of The Electoral Commission.
Cassia Rowland - The UK Prison Crisis, Sentencing Policy, Early-release Provisions, Political Responses To Media Pressure, And Reducing Reliance On Imprisonment.
David Gauke - Sentencing Reform, Prison Capacity, Short Custodial Sentences, Community Penalties, Probation, And The Political Challenges Of Reducing Imprisonment.
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When MI5 Lies to the Courts: A Litany of Deception Threatens the Reputation of the Security Service
September 30, 2026
At a High Court hearing on 18th September before the Lady Chief Justice, the President of the King's Bench Division and Lord Justice Chamberlain, the Security Service (MI5) accepted that it gave evidence based on lies to three courts and that senior MI5 officers were repeatedly dishonest while seeking to defend a violent neo-Nazi agent identified as Agent X whose alleged abuse of two women was uncovered by the BBC. Counsel for MI5 told the Court that "MI5 accepts without reservation" the f...
Lucy Letby and the Thirlwall Inquiry: Was it Premature?
September 23, 2026
The publication of Lady Justice Thirlwall’s Report of the Public Inquiry into the Events at the Countess of Chester Hospital 2015-2018 (https://thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/the-report/#Summary-report-on-report-page) has reignited the sharply divided – and almost entirely uninformed - public debate about the safety of Lucy Letby’s convictions on 7 counts of murdering, and 8 counts of attempting to murder, new born babies in the hospital’s neo-natal unit between June 2015 and June 2016...
James Orr: The Politics of Weirdness. Plus the Demise of Assisted Dying, Never Ending Public Inquiries, and Hermer’s Legacy Undone
September 16, 2026
In the wake of the Metropolitan Police’s announcement that it’s Special Enquiry Team has expanded its criminal investigation into donations made to Reform UK by Fiona Cottrell, the mother of “Posh” George, to include suspected breaches of foreign funding laws based on the Verbatim/C4 undercover sting operation, Ken Macdonald KC and Tim Owen KC focus on the rise and fall of Dr James Orr, the former Reform UK Head of Policy - or “contractor” as he was contemptuously described by Nigel Farage so...
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