Sentencing Reform Podcast

BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action is always a good source of accessible legal analysis and a good way to deliver up-to-date content in a different way to your students. For example, you can listen to a podcast on the likely impact Ken Clarke’s sentencing reforms here. A great starter to a debate on sentencing theory and competing objectives such as public protection and rehabilitation - including a great bit with Ken Clarke in his usual relaxed tones explaining his justification for discounting sentences based on an early guilty plea after about 5 minutes.

New MoJ Site [24 Jan 2012]
Jury trial under threat…again! [17 Jan 2012]
R v Dobson & Norris [4 Jan 2012]
A Single European Contract Law? [31 Oct 2011]
Sentencing Stats [28 Oct 2011]
Self-Defence [7 Oct 2011]
Sentencing - LIVE! [5 Sep 2011]
Judges reading the Riot Act [19 Aug 2011]
Poor set to suffer most from legal aid cuts [28 Jun 2011]
Government set to axe sentencing reforms? [8 Jun 2011]
Rehab, not revenge… [19 Apr 2011]
A British Bill of Rights? [23 Mar 2011]
Silk… [23 Feb 2011]
Deterrence [26 Jan 2011]
Judge for Yourself [23 Jan 2011]
Breaking the Cycle of reoffending [20 Jan 2011]
Tweet Justice [21 Dec 2010]
Sentencing Green Paper [8 Dec 2010]
Twitter Joke Trial [22 Nov 2010]
We want pre-nup! [20 Oct 2010]
Important changes to homicide law [24 Sep 2010]
A “rehabilitation revolution” [26 Jul 2010]
The parole board [20 Jul 2010]
“Prison Works”... or does it? [30 Jun 2010]
Unlawful use of stop and search [24 Jun 2010]
Libel reform - new worksheet with video clip [24 May 2010]
Guardian Law [13 May 2010]
BCA v Singh [15 Apr 2010]
“I feel as if they have ripped out my heart” - victim’s justice? [17 Mar 2010]
You Be The Judge [10 Mar 2010]
The Angola 3 [10 Mar 2010]
Community Payback - Video clip and worksheet [15 Feb 2010]
Juries and the web [26 Jan 2010]
Edlington, the age of criminal responsibility and youth sentencing [24 Jan 2010]
Great story for English Legal System revision generally… [7 Dec 2009]
New Youth Justice Site [4 Dec 2009]
Revision Presentation - Introduction to Criminal and Civil Law [21 Oct 2009]