Michael Zander KC
Emeritus professor
Michael Zander KC, NLJ columnist & Emeritus Professor, LSE. Newlawjournal.co.uk
Michael Zander reports on a warning from Sir Jeffrey Jowell: fundamental safeguards are at stake
Michael Zander KC reports on the Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill
Michael Zander suggests that argument over tweaking of the statutory tests is a waste of everyone’s time
"One feels that one is experiencing some of the horror of living under an evil regime and what it takes to oppose such a regime as a lawyer."
Michael Zander on the final stages
Is Dominic Raab’s project doomed? Michael Zander reports on criticism from across the legal spectrum
More harm than good? Professor Michael Zander QC reflects on 10 years of the Woolf Reforms
Michael Zander QC considers the Justice Secretary’s plans for a modern Bill of Rights
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NEWS
"There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
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