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Medical negligence compensation sets precedent (1991)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tim Crook reports on the case and damages awarded against Herefordshire Health Authority for the negligence of care to a patient, after 6-year-old Rebecca Field suffered paralysis and brain damage at birth....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

A Straw in the wind (1984)

A documentary focussing on controversies surrounding miscarriages of justice in English legal history, which led to the abolition of the death penalty.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Notting Hill Carnival trial (1977)

Genre

News report

Report on a trial lasting 14 weeks in the Old Bailey, of 10 young men for actions during the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival. To reach their sentence, the jury were out for 170 hours, 23 minutes, the longest ever...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Birmingham Six case (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the final appeal of the Birmingham Six, who were given 21 life sentences for the Birmingham Pub Bombings in 1974. Describes the history of the case including eyewitness reports from victims Linda...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Capital punishment in the UK (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tim Crook reports on the history of and background to capital punishment in Britain. Speaking are: Donald Rumbelow, author of The Triple Tree; Britain’s last hangman Albert Pierrepoint. The clip is part of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Man sacked because of psychiatric illness (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Larry Gostin, MIND, on the legal implications of a case where a man was sacked because of a previous history of psychiatric illness. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Capital punishment - Israeli experience (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview

Tim Crook reports on the history of executions at the Acre Prison in Israel. A male security service officer (not identified) describes the hanging of Israeli terrorists by the British authorities after the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Computer hacker receives one year sentence (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

Computer hacker Nicholas Whitely has been given a 1 year sentence suspended for 8 months after he replaced vital data in unversities around the country with odd phrases in a case which has made legal...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Padraig Flynn on Michael Portillo Euro opt-out (1994)

Genre

Interview

Employment Secretary Michael Portillo made history last night at his first-ever encounter with his continental colleagues, by standing by as the other eleven EU states adopted a law on consulting...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio