Join the Law Pod team as we discuss a range of cases decided at all levels in the courts in 2024 with important implications for the future.

At the end of 2024 John Gimlette retired after a long and successful career at 1, Crown Office Row, where he practised alongside an equally successful career in travel writing. In that time John published 6 travel books (details of which can be found on his website here). In this episode he looks back at his life at the Bar and as a writer.

Jim Duffy is joined by fellow 1COR barristers Alasdair Henderson and Paula Kelly to examine recent judicial attempts to grapple with questions of gender in the workplace. How do the UK courts and tribunals distinguish legitimate and protected expressions of belief from harassment and transphobia?

Following the recent allegations of abuse surrounding former owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al-Fayed, vicarious liability has been in the news once again.

Emma-Louise Fenelon speaks to Isabel McArdle about developments in this area of law since her previous episode with Rob Kellar KC in 2020 and in particular since the Supreme Court decision in Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v BXB [2023] UKSC 15

The episode discusses the following cases:

WM Morrison Supermarkets plc (Appellant) v Various Claimants (Respondents) [2020] UKSC

Barclays Bank v. Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13

Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets plc  [2016] UKSC 11

Cox v. Ministry of Justice [2016] UKSC 10

The Christian Brothers Case [2012] UKSC 56

Armes v Nottinghamshire CC [2017] UKSC

Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v BXB [2023] UKSC 15

Benjamin Seifert of 1 Crown Office Row joins Lucy McCann to introduce our listeners to extradition law: the statutory framework that governs extradition, the procedure, the types of challenges raised when resisting extradition and recent developments in extradition law in the UK Supreme Court.

Rosalind English talks to Tim Lankester, who was Permanent Secretary of this country’s foreign aid department when a huge scandal broke about the grant of aid to Malaysia in the 1990s. The Court’s ruling that this decision was unlawful marked a shift in the balance between the judiciary and the executive. Sir Tim and Rosalind are joined by law Professor Liz Fisher to discuss the role of the courts in government decision making over the past thirty years.

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David Hart KC talks to Sally Smith KC about her first novel. A murder mystery meets a multi-million authorship dispute.

Law Pod UK is published by 1 Crown Office Row. Supporting articles are published on the UK Human Rights Blog. Follow and interact with the podcast team on Twitter.

For those looking to keep on top of their CPD over the summer, in Episode 204 Emma-Louise Fenelon interviews John Whitting KC and Robert Mills about recent developments in clinical negligence.

Robert Mills takes listeners through three recent cases on material contribution:

John Whitting KC outlines developments in the law of informed consent

And the episode concludes on a discussion of expert evidence

The podcast has previously covered expert evidence in the following episodes:

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A tale of small win against airline leads to big Supreme Court ruling on pre- and post- Brexit compensation. Rosalind English in conversation with David Hart KC.

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Jim Duffy is joined by Richard Mumford and Lance Baynham to examine recent developments in inquests law, and to take a look at contemporary challenges facing our oldest judicial office.

Law Pod UK is published by 1 Crown Office Row. Supporting articles are published on the UK Human Rights Blog. Follow and interact with the podcast team on Twitter.