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Joshua Rozenberg

Joshua Rozenberg trained as a lawyer before becoming a legal journalist and was the BBC's legal correspondent for 15 years. He is now a freelance writer, commentator and broadcaster and presents the BBC Radio 4 series Law in Action

May 2015

  • Woman with wiine

    Not everyone who commits a crime deserves to be punished

    Joshua Rozenberg
    Thousands of people are protesting at the conviction for assault of Eireann Kerr, whose drink was spiked with the date-rape drug GHB

April 2015

  • GCHQ was required last month to delete or destroy parts of the documents it held containing privileged information on the claimant.

    Illegal surveillance: GCHQ's 'neither confirm nor deny' a thing of the past

    In ruling a former Libyan dissident was illegally spied on, Investigatory Powers Tribunal was able to preserve national security while refusing GCHQ’s request
  • Lord Janner

    Critics of Lord Janner decision misunderstand justice system

    I want to know why allegations were not put Janner while he was still fit to stand trial but that is what a public inquiry should tell us - not a trial
    • Elveden prosecutions erred by treating journalists and their sources the same

      Joshua Rozenberg
    • Operation Elveden: Andy Coulson and eight other cases dropped by DPP

    • Julian Assange speech prompts judges to boycott legal conference

March 2015

  • The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, whose draft bill of rights - potentially paving the way for the UK to leave the human rights convention - was promised to appear in 2014.

    More can be done to protect human rights across Europe

    Joshua Rozenberg
    As Belgium chairs the Council of Europe, it decided, as the UK had done previously, to call a high-level meeting of justice ministers
  • Prince Charles

    Prince Charles letters case reinforces profound constitutional principles

    Decision of a judicial body should be binding and should not be capable of being overturned by a member of the executive, says supreme court president
    • Legal privilege and the conflicting interests of GCHQ and the IPT

      Joshua Rozenberg
    • Legal limbo where spies reside is beyond spooky

    • Claimants expected to rush to the courts as fees for civil actions skyrocket

      Joshua Rozenberg

February 2015

  • Jimmy Savile in his Leeds penthouse.

    Jimmy Savile and the complex question of victim compensation

  • Arguing that a child could be placed in a more beneficial environment is not enough cause for separation.

    Why the judge was right to reunite a child with his EDL-supporting father

  • Senior judges walk to Westminster Hall.

    Judges are fed up and it's not hard to see why

    Joshua Rozenberg
  • CCTV Surveillance monitor noise

    Police will need judge’s permission to access journalists’ phone and email records

January 2015

  • Ben Emmerson QC

    Contempt of parliament: bluster or real threat?

  • lord chief justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

    Dramatic increases in court fees causing deep concern, say senior judges

  • Cybercrime

    Guardian law blog
    Police face new ethical dilemma in increasingly digital world

  • Armed policemen patrol Heathrow Airport in London

    Guardian law blog
    Why terrorism law watchdog is worried about proposed changes to legislation

December 2014

  • Handcuffs hang from a gate

    ECHR cases won by UK government show flexibility of human rights system

    Strasbourg human rights court is ready to admit it gets things wrong when presented with good arguments
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