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Jun 2024
1h 25m

Tana Adkin KC

The Legal 500
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Will Tolcher, Global Bar Editor of The Legal 500, speaks with Tana Adkin KC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association and a King's Counsel at 15NBS. In this episode, Tana and Will discuss the state of the criminal justice system in England and Wales from courts to prisons, the health of the criminal Bar, English criminal law's adjustment to a post-COVID and higher-technology world, private prosecutions, and the interaction of the criminal law and the media.

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