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Court & Bowled 

Tales of Cricket and the Law 

Author: James Wilson 

Published by Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing £19.99 

ISBN: 9780854901401 

Magna Carta Uncovered 

Authors: Anthony Arlidge and Igor Judge 

Hart Publishing £25 

ISBN: 9781849465564 

Nigel Pascoe QC reviews The Scottsboro Boys at the Garrick Theatre.  

In March 1931, at Paint Rock, Alabama, nine black teenagers were taken off a freight train which had been running in Tennessee... 

Between February and June 2014, Jelia Sane worked as a legal adviser for the Political Prisoner’s Solidarity Committee, Colombia’s oldest human rights NGO.   

Here she reports on the ongoing peace negotiations. 

As the consultation on Draft CPS Guidance on Speaking to Witnesses at Court takes place, the DPP, Alison Saunders, explains the reasoning behind the guidance and Tony Cross QC gives the Criminal Bar Association’s view.  

Last month I announced new proposals to better assist victims and witnesses called to court to give evidence in criminal trials. 

Sarah-Jane Bennett explains how the Bar Council is working to reform the criminal justice system and legal aid.  

2015 will be a year of big change for the whole of the criminal justice system. 

Mark Hatcher on the Public Accounts Committee and its devastating report into the legal aid reforms.  

The veteran Whitehall watcher, Professor Peter Hennessy who now observes the behaviour of mandarins from the cross benches in the House of Lords, once described the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as “the queen of select committees … [which] … by its very existence exerted a cleansing effect in all government departments”. 

Joseph Giret QC and Anya Newman on boys, toys and unprecedented High Court injunctions.  

On the 1 December 2014, HHJ Owen QC sitting as a High Court judge in Birmingham granted an injunction prohibiting an activity known as Car Cruising across the entire Black Country region. 

Charlotte Proudman on prostitution, sex buyer laws and the “End Demand” campaign.  

End Demand, a new campaign to change laws relating to prostitution, was launched on 22 October 2014. 

Andrew Ford examines the use of s 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act.  

 In June 2013 a pilot scheme was announced by the Justice Secretary “to allow young and vulnerable victims to give evidence and be cross-examined before the trial starts”.