

Law Pod UK
Law Pod UK
Law Pod UK covers developments across all aspects of civil and public law in the United Kingdom. It is brought to you by the barristers at 1 Crown Office Row with presenters Rosalind English, Emma-Louise Fenelon, Jim Duffy and Lucy McCann. Information accompanying the podcast episodes is published on the UK Human Rights Blog.
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Feb 11, 2019 • 21min
Ep. 65: General Medical Council Appeals - Robert Keller & Jeremy Hyam QC
Taken from our recent seminar, 'Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings', Robert Kellar and Jeremy Hyam QC discuss appeals by the general medical council.
#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #RobertKeller #JeremyHyam #GMC #GeneralMedicalCouncil #Appeals #Remediation

Feb 4, 2019 • 20min
Ep. 64: Informed Consent - how much direction do patients actually want?
Rosalind English talks to John Whitting QC of 1 Crown Office Row about Montgomery, informed consent and his response to our earlier episode “Doctor Knows Best"
#1COR #LapodUK #RosalindEnglish #JohnWhitting #Montgomery #InformedConsent

Jan 28, 2019 • 21min
Ep. 63: Whose life is it anyway? Dignity in dying
Do terminally ill patients have the right to die at the time and place of their choosing, with the attendance of a medical practitioner? The ban on assisted suicide has raised one of the great moral questions of our time. The Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying, Sarah Wootton discusses their campaign to change the law with Rosalind English.
#1COR #LapodUK #RightToDie #Assisted Suicide #DignityInDying #SarahWooton #RosalindEnglish

Jan 21, 2019 • 21min
Ep. 62: Court claims from the empire’s long shadow
Last year the High Court ruled out claims against the British Government brought by people caught up in the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya in the 1950s. The allegations of brutality against guards employed by the Colonial Office were time-barred by the half-century that has elapsed since the events took place. Guy Mansfield QC represented the Foreign Office in this litigation and discusses the importance of the Limitation Act with Rosalind English.
#1COR #LapodUK #MauMauUprising #ForeignOffice #GuyMansfield #RosalindEnglish #Litergation #LimitationAct

Jan 14, 2019 • 20min
Ep. 61: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Mrs Justice Philippa Whipple about the exceptional life and career of the US Supreme Court Justice.
#EmmaLouiseFenelon #MrsJusticeWhipple #RuthBaderGinsburg #USSupremeCourt #RBG #1COR #LapodUK

Jan 7, 2019 • 23min
Ep. 60: Doctor knows best?
James Badenoch QC has spent thirty-five years fighting medical negligence cases. He talks to Rosalind English about the "doctor knows best" rule of evidence, and how that has come under attack in recent years.
#1COR #LawpodUK #JamesBadenoch #RosalindEnglish #Bolam #MedicalNegligence

Dec 20, 2018 • 18min
Ep. 59: The cases that defined 2018
Jonathan Metzer and Emma-Louise Fenelon discuss some of the cases that defined 2018.
To read the accompanying article, go to our human rights blog:
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2018/12/20/10-cases-that-defined-2018/
#1COR #LawpodUK #JonathanMetzer #EmmaLouiseFenelon

Dec 17, 2018 • 22min
Ep. 58: 2018 Inquest law update
Jeremy Hyam QC and Emma-Louise Fenelon provide a whistlestop tour of the most significant developments in inquest law in 2018.
#1COR #LawpodUK #InquestLaw #JeremyHyam #EmmaLouiseFenelon

Dec 10, 2018 • 13min
Ep. 57: Mass starvation as a weapon of war
Rosalind English talks to 1 Crown Office Row’s Catriona Murdoch about the ways in which international law may be used to prevent it.
#1COR #LawpodUK #MassStarvation #RosalindEnglish #CatroinaMurdoch #InternationalLaw

Dec 3, 2018 • 19min
Ep. 56: Psychiatric harm and childbirth
Emma-Louise Fenelon talks with 1 Crown Office Row’s Suzanne Lambert about a recent High Court decision - YAH v Medway NHS Foundation Trust which addressed the issue of claims brought as a result of psychiatric harm arising out of childbirth.
#1COR #YAHVMedway #NHS #JusticeWhipple #SuzanneLambert #Childbirth