Criminal

Alec Samuels explores a defence that can reduce murder to manslaughter

It’s time to come clean about miscarriages of justice & mistakes denied, says Jon Robins

​How essential is the defendant’s attendance at a hearing? Adrian Lower dissects the evidence

Criminal justice review reveals critical lack of compliance

In Justice Week, David Greene shows how the crisis in crime is reflected to particular areas of practice in civil justice

In his second article on the challenges of amending a defendant’s name, Victor Smith considers the distinction between entities that are truly different & the same defendant merely misnamed

In the first of a two-part series, Victor Smith traces the origins of the principle that a charge cannot be amended by substituting one defendant for another