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Posts by Nicola Monaghan

Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.

Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.

Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!

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Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.

Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.

Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!

8 months ago 20 34 1 4
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Jury-free trials recommended to save courts from 'collapse' — BBC News A senior judge recommends a shake-up of the system, but some barristers argue juries are essential for fair justice.

Jury-free trials recommended to save courts from ‘collapse’ - BBC News

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I am really excited about the publication of the 8th edition of my textbook, Criminal Law Directions. Thank you to the fabulous team at Oxford University Press for helping to get this edition over the finish line!

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Court Usher vacancy Worcester, Kidderminster
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Judicial assistant recruitment - UK Supreme Court Judicial assistant recruitment

Great opportunity to become a Judicial Assistant with the UK Supreme Court and Privy Council: www.supremecourt.uk/working-for-...

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More dispatches from the UK criminal justice crisis - experts having cases re-listed for July 2027 (they're often a few years old already). Will they even still be employed or working then? Who can possibly predict. How can this even pretend to be a functioning justice system?

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Person in a business suit standing in front of a brick building with a logo of The Bar Council in the corner. The title of the blog is written at the bottom, it reads: legal education in schools can create a better society.

Person in a business suit standing in front of a brick building with a logo of The Bar Council in the corner. The title of the blog is written at the bottom, it reads: legal education in schools can create a better society.

In this new blog, Bar course student Olivia Hardiman shares her experience of volunteering with national education charity Young Citizens as part of The Big Legal Lesson – a campaign to start a conversation about rights, responsibilities, and the rule of law in schools.

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Marshalling | Middle Temple

Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started the Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...

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Marshalling | Middle Temple

Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started rhe Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...

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Man in Brazil wrongly charged with 62 crimes after police use flawed photo ID Police relied on showing photo of Paulo Alberto da Silva Costa, wrongly jailed for years, to victims to identify him as an alleged perpetrator

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Includes a just published online and open access piece by my UoPLaw colleague Prof Caroline Strevens (and Emma Jones) on perceptions of wellbeing among heads of UK law schools

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R v Tembeleski (No 2) - NSW Caselaw

Interesting case on jury misconduct from New South Wales: R v Tembeleski (No2) [2024] NWSDC 504. Jury discharged after a juror brought a Law dictionary into the jury room & no other juror raised the judge's direction not to conduct research. www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/192...

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Reviewing the law of homicide - Law Commission The law of homicide was subject to a thorough review by the Law Commission of England and Wales in the early 2000s. We published recommendations for reform of partial defences to murder in 2004. Many ...

Pleased to see that the Law Commission are looking at the law on homicide in 2025: lawcom.gov.uk/project/revi...

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The top of a jury duty summons that has been chewed up

The top of a jury duty summons that has been chewed up

Your honor I know how this sounds but my dog literally tried to eat my jury duty summons

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Barbara Mills KC on being first Black Chair of the Bar For the first time in its 131 year history, the Bar Council which represents barristers in England and Wales has appointed the first black woman to lead the organisation.

Watch our new Chair Barbara Mills KC on Channel 4 News. In her first broadcast interview, she spoke to Ayshah Tull about her priorities for the justice system and the year ahead.
www.channel4.com/news/barbara...

1 year ago 6 2 0 0
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Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy.

It began under the last government, and continues under this one.

Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.

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Volunteer for or support BVL Volunteer for or Support BVL

Volunteering opportunities for both law students and academics available here: www.bvl.org.uk/volunteer-su...

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Volunteer to deliver The Big Legal Lesson in a local school - Young Citizens Help us start a conversation about the law in schools The Big Legal Lesson is back! Since 2020, our...

⚖️Almost 2/3 of the UK don’t know their basic legal rights. Want to help change that?

Young Citizens is looking for volunteers to deliver the Big Legal Lesson. Help those at your local schools and colleges engage in conversation about the law and human rights.

Find out more⬇️
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Crisis in courts has opened the door to secret justice In a criminal justice system mired in crisis and beset by delays and backlogs, why are courts becoming more secretive? Tristan Kirk investigates how the public, journalists, and even defendants are be...

a very mixed picture on open justice here from the excellent @kirkkorner.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cour...

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Appointment details – Solicitor member - Criminal Procedure Rule Committee – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK GOV.UK

Interested in becoming a solicitor member of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee?

If so, see:

apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8443

Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025

#UKlegal #CPRC

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Research assistants - Law Commission Applications are now open for Research Assistant vacancies to start in September 2025 Cliciwch ar y ddolen hon am fersiwn Cymraeg y dudalen hon. Deadline for applications is 11.55 pm on Friday 31 Janu...

Great opportunity to join the Law Commission as a Research Assistant. Setpember 2025 start date. Details can be found here: lawcom.gov.uk/our-work/res...

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So, 2025 is the year that I get to introduce/inflict my new pseudonymous pen name - S.J. Fleet.

And send this little critter out into the world.

August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).

And good Lord I’m terrified.

www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

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Magistrates’ Association's response to the sentencing review consultation www.magistrates-association.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Controversies in American Constitutional Law: Controversies in American Constitutional Law - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press Routledge & CRC Press Series: Controversies in American Constitutional Law presents and engages with the contemporary developments and policies which mould and challenge U.S. constitutional

If you are currently formulating an idea for a book that engages with US Constitutional Law you might consider the Routledge Series I co-edit, ‘Controversies in American Constitutional Law’. Feel free to get in touch to discuss your book idea 😀

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Freezing cells and dripping ceilings - sad truth about the state of our court Freezing cold cells mean justice is not being met in Nottingham

Sad story about the state of our courts

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

1 year ago 1 1 0 0

ChatGPT similarly makes things up for the hell of it.

I tested it a while back with information I knew to be very much in the public domain.

It’s basically just like that bad tutor you had at university who, instead of saying ‘I don’t know’ would say utter bollocks with an air of authority.

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