It is presented by nine-year-old Alma-Constance, daughter of Next 100 Years founder Dana Denis-Smith, and Lucinda Acland, presenter of the First 100 Years’ podcast series and co-author of First: 100 years of women in law.
Lady Hale is interviewed about her role in introducing the Children Act 1989. She explains who makes laws, what judges do and how courts decide what is best for children in cases that impact their lives.
In the February episode, Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill explains the age of criminal responsibility and what happens when children are prosecuted.
Each podcast last 10-15 minutes with new episodes aired monthly throughout 2021.
Host, Alma-Constance says: ‘Next month I will be ten years old, the age of criminal responsibility in England. I was surprised to hear that I could end up in court if I broke the law. None of my friends in school knew anything about it.’
Denis-Smith, founder of The Next 100 Years, said: ‘One of the aims of the Next 100 Years is to inform the next generation and to inspire the women lawyers of the future.
‘Education is an important part of this so following our successful First 100 Years podcast series charting the history of women in law, I hope that Alma-Constance and Lucinda’s Kids Law podcast will reach and inspire a new audience.
‘Children should understand how the law works and how it impacts their lives but there are few resources out there easy for them to understand. This new series comes at a time when so many of us are home schooling and offers the opportunity for children to learn about the law from leading figures in the legal world in an accessible way.’
Find out more about the podcast at www.kidslaw.info.
To hear the podcast via Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1546996634.
To hear the podcast via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Jbi8wsTkBZBU4D4PrFZ5X.
Last year, Lady Hale made a foray into fiction as the hero of a children’s book based on her life, Equal to Everything, written by journalist Afua Hirsch and illustrated by Henny Beaumont.
