Joshua Rozenberg

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The Parole Board should increase the number of public hearings it holds each year, an internal review has recommended. It’s one of the ways that the board hopes to achieve greater public understanding of its work. The Parole Board is an independent body whose members make judicial decisions on whether people who have committed serious offences or who are assessed as potentially dangerous need to stay in prison for the protection of the public.

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

Lord Hermer KC “regrets” a reference to the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) in a lecture the attorney general delivered on Thursday, Downing Street told reporters the following day. A spokesperson said:The attorney general gave a speech defending international law which underpins our security, protects against threats from aggressive states like Russia and helps tackle organised immigration crime. He rejects the characterisation of his speech by the Conservatives.

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

International law has helped give the United Kingdom peace, security and prosperity, the attorney general said yesterday. Delivering the annual security lecture at the Royal United Services Institute, Lord Hermer KC described as the government’s policy in international affairs as one of progressive realism. This policy, he said, combined a pragmatic approach to the UK’s national interests with a principled commitment to a rules-based international order.

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

“It’s a very genuine consultation,” the director-general of the Bar Standards Board assured me last September. Mark Neale said the regulator “absolutely” wanted to hear what barristers had to say about a proposed new professional duty requiring them to “act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion”. By then, several of them had already made their views entirely clear.

1 week ago | rozenberg.substack.com | Joshua Rozenberg

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -0:29Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Lawyers for the families of 29 military and civilian intelligence specialists who were killed when an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 have said they will “consider all legal options” to find out how their relatives died. They have launched a campaign seeking answers and accountability.