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The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.

Weekly conversation that will give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it's unpicking a landmark legal ruling, explaining how laws are made or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.

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Law in Action

The Law Show: Courts on Trial

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23/06/2015

Courts on Trial

BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show, Courts on Trial

As Michael Gove says the justice system is failing, an expert panel critiques UK courts.

As justice secretary Michael Gove says the courts are failing the poor, Joshua Rozenberg brings together an expert panel to discuss how the system could do better.

The "creaking and outdated" justice system in England and Wales is failing society's poorest, Michael Gove argued this week. 

In his first speech since becoming Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, he said that the best legal provision is the preserve of the wealthy, while victims of crime are "badly" let down. Mr Gove also said that the case for change had been "made most powerfully and clearly by the judiciary themselves". 

In this special edition of Law in Action, the Lord Chief Justice gives his reaction to Michael Gove's speech. 

And we hear from a panel of experts who have intimate knowledge of the justice system on what can be done to make our courts function better and more efficiently: Sir Keir Starmer, the former Director of Public Prosecutions and now a Labour MP; Sir Stanley Burnton, former Lord Justice of Appeal and author of the report 'Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity; and Dame Hazel Genn, Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute. 

Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg
Producer: Hannah Barnes
Editor: Richard Knight.

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