7BR Part Heard: A Series of Legal Podcasts

Following last weeks’ episode of 7BR’s podcast series Part Heard, we are again joined by Ross Beaton alongside Christina Lyons for a further discussion into what a COVID-19 Inquiry could look like. We examine in more detail questions such as when would the inquiry begin, what will the terms of reference be and who will the core participants be.

In this weeks episode of 7BR’s Part Heard, Ross Beaton discusses what a COVID-19 inquiry might look like and some of the questions that arise when trying to imagine an inquiry of this nature.

In our most recent podcast, James Robottom  joins us to explore what the news of the working conditions in Leicester’s garment factories tells us about the law of Modern Slavery, enforcement practices and corporate responsibility.

The backlog of cases due to be tried in Criminal courts is no new phenomenon, but with the closing of physical courts due to COVID-19 adding to the pressure, there have been suggestions that changes should be made to jury trials, this has included scrapping them altogether for either way offences, in favour of a single judge and two magistrates, to more recently, reducing the number of people sitting on a jury from 12 to 7. In this episode of 7BR’s Part-Heard, Maryam Syed and Vittoria Trigilio discuss the work-ability of the proposals and, as the backlog continues to build, where do we go from here?

In this episode, Kate Temple-Mabe discusses the relative benefits and challenges of remote hearings, what she’s learnt from working during the current pandemic, how different courts have been able to adapt, and whether the current shift to remote working is here to stay.