Unusa Karimu’s people, the Mbororo, are a marginalised semi-nomadic community of cattle herders in Cameroon. The daily persecution and exploitation they face at the hands of government and wealthy elites inspired Mr Karimu to become a lawyer so he could defend their human rights in court. Karimu talks to Salman Shaheen about his struggle against [...]
Dear Judges, In 1748, the Baron of Montesquieu singled out the English political system as an exemplary form of protection of liberties, and the avoidance of corruption and despotism. He described in The Spirit of the Laws the separation between what we would now call the legislative, judiciary and executive powers. His argument was extremely [...]
The supreme court ruled today that Raymond McCartney and Eamonn MacDermott are entitled to compensation for being wrongly convicted of murder during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This news doesn’t seem to have made much of an impact, which, when you look at the actual substance and implications of the judgement, is kind of odd: [...]
This is a guest post by Laura Sandwell. Responses to the government’s recent consultation paper on Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid are now available, and the potential impact of the proposed reforms is becoming clear. The consultation paper sets out “fundamental reform” of the legal aid scheme, and justifies widespread cuts on the [...]
