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Members of the Doughty Street Crime Team have a regular series, "Life in Crime", in the Solicitors Journal. Members of the Doughty Street Public & Administrative Law Team have a regular series, "Public Law Update", in the New Law Journal. Other articles by Doughty Street barristers are listed below. The latest editions of each article can be found on the homepage.

When Protection Matters - New Law Journal - April 2011
Kate Markus was a contributor and counsel involved in the case cited.
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Time for a substitution? New Law Journal - January 2011
Obudsmen: a substitute for litigation? Judith Farbey reports.
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Housing and Discrimination: An Introduction to the Equality Act 2010 - October 2010
Tracey Bloom and Jim Shepherd give an indepth look at the the premises provisions in the Equality Act 2010 which largely came into force on 1st October 2010.
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"Due Process and Fair Trial Rights at the Special Court: How the Desire for Accountability Outweighed the Demands of Justice at the Special Court for Sierra Leone" - Leiden Journal of International Law, July 2010
Wayne Jordash and Scott Martin assess the fulfilment of the mandate of the Special Court for Sierra Leone through an examination of the fairness of the RUF trial
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"A New Gateway?" - New Law Journal, July 2010
Jamie Burton & Alex Gask consider how the gateway defence could make life easier for non-secure tenants
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The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran 1988 - Abdorraham Boroumand Foundation - June 2010
Geoffrey Robertson QC reports.
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"Failure to Carry the Burden of Proof: How Joint Criminal Enterprise Lost its Way at the Special Court for Sierra Leone" - Journal of International Criminal Justice, May 2010
Wayne Jordash
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"Trials in Absentia at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Incompatibility with International Human Rights Law" - Journal of International Criminal Justice, May 2010
Wayne Jordash
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"Closing the Net" - New Law Journal, May 2010
Paul Harris SC says it's time to clamp down on internet defamation
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"Lessons learned" - New Law Journal, April 2010
Henrietta Hill reports on how will the judgment in G affect employees outside the schoolroom?
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"Media inquiry ducked key reforms" - The Guardian, February 2010
Geoffrey Robertson QC comments on the recent Culture, Media and Sport Committee report on the inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel
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"The Practice of 'Witness Proofing' in International Criminal Tribunals: Why the International Criminal Court Should Prohibit the Practice" - Leiden Journal of International Law, 2009
Wayne Jordash
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"Joint Criminal Enterprise at the Special Court for Sierra Leone" - International Criminal Law Bureau, November 2009
Wayne Jordash
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"Was There An Armenian Genocide?"
An opinion authored by Geoffrey Robertson QC was published in October 2009
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"Public Rights & Wrongs" - New Law Journal, October 2009
Robert Latham reports on disclosure, cross-examination & equality
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"Freezing assets of 'terrorists' - how fair is the UN sanctions committee?" - Law Society Gazette, September 2009
John RWD Jones and Dr Miša Zgonec-Rožej discuss the UN's counter-terrorism sanctions regime
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"Frequently Asked Questions on International Law Aspects of Countering Terrorism" - (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2009
Susie Alegre provides a brief overview of the broader international law framework in which counter-terrorism works
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"Blurred Boundaries" - New Law Journal, September 2009
Is Public Law still public? asks Krishnendu Mukherjee
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"Banks, SARS & The Customer" - New Law Journal, July 2009
Banks & customers are potential victims in an unhappy balance, says David Hislop
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"Pulled in two directions" - Inside Housing, July 2009
Robert Latham examines how a legal battle (Weaver v L&Q) has thrown the status of social landlords into disarray
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"There's No Place Like Home" - New Law Journal, July 2009
Tracey Bloom and Kate Markus report on the complexities of eviction action & the obligation to house minors
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"Photo Opportunity" - Solicitors Journal, June 2009
Paul Harris asks whether, if the police are allowed to take and retain photographs of lawful demonstrators, those involved are not being treated as criminals
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"Restraint Orders" - Archbold, July 2009
David Hislop discusses restraint orders and the rights of those defrauded
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"The Exclusion Net" - New Law Journal, May 2009
Joe Middleton on recent exclusions under the Refugee Convention
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"Counting The Cost" - New Law Journal, May 2009
Alison Pickup hopes the decision in R (Scott) v LB Hackney indicates a promising future for JR costs
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"Safeguarding the Rule of Law in an Enlarged EU: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania" - CEPS Bookstore, April 2009
Susie Alegre, Ivanka Ivanova and Dana Denis-Smith assess the needs and options for monitoring and reinforcing the rule of law in an enlarged EU
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"Human Rights Update" - New Law Journal, April 2009
Paul Harris & Alasdair Mackenzie discuss fresh claims & foreign cases
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"Money Laundering & Criminal Property under POCA 2002 - Time to clean up the law?" - Archbold News (published by Sweet & Maxwell), Issue 2, March 2009
David Bentley and Richard Fisher consider the current state of the law relating to money laundering under POCA .
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"Promoting Equality" - New Law Journal, January 2009
Ulele Burnham examines how courts interpret positive equality obligations in public law
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"An Impartial Review?" - New Law Journal, January 2009
Jamie Burton outlines the route of appeal for dissatisfied council tenants
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"The Constitutional Role of the Privy Council and the Prerogative" - A Justice Report
by Patrick O'Connor
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"The Chamber of Secrets" - Young Lawyer, October 2008
Alison Pickup unlocks the door on finding her feet and life as a pupil
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"Looked after children" - New Law Journal, October 2008
Azeem Suterwalla and Caoilfhionn Gallagher consider confusion in the law on "looked after" children
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"The EU's External Cooperation in Criminal Justice and Counter-terrorism: An Assessment of the Human Rights Implications with a particular focus on Cooperation with Canada" - CEPS Bookstore, September 2008
Susie Alegre examines the increasing importance of EU external cooperation in the field of criminal justice and counter-terrorism and its impact on the interplay between justice and home affairs and common foreign and security policy.
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"Allocating social housing: the policy context" - Legal Action, June 2008
Robert Latham discusses the allocation of social rented housing in the context of the statutory frameworks of Housing Act (HA) 1996 Parts 6 and 7.
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"An illegal hanging" - New Statesman, 8th January 2007
Sadakat Kadri argues that besides being barbaric, the execution of Saddam Hussein may well be illegal
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"30 Days - Saddam Hussein has few options left in preventing his own execution" - Newsweek, 27 December 2006
Sadakat Kadri interviewed by Newsweek journalist Emily Flynn Vencat on the ramifications of the rejection of Saddam Hussein's appeal against his death sentence.
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"Blair faces a tricky legal position" - Times Online, 16th May 2006
Sadakat Kadri discusses the legal dilemma facing the Government over the question of foreign prisoners
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"The wrong way to combat terrorism " - Open Democracy, 3 May 2006
by Sadakat Kadri - to read, click here

"They'd do better sticking Saddam's head on a pole" - The Guardian, 4 April 2006
by Sadakat Kadri - to read, click here

"Unaccompanied asylum seekers: making a lawful age assessment" - Legal Action, February 2005
by Robert Latham

"The Freedom of Information Act explained" - Legal Action, January 2005
by Guy Vassall-Adams

"Recent Developments in Public Law" - Legal Action, November 2004
by Kate Markus and Martin Westgate

"Thumbs up?" - Solicitors Journal, 13 August 2004
by Stephen Cragg (with Peter Mahy, Howells Solicitors)

"Recent Developments in Public Law" - Legal Action, May 2004
by Kate Markus and Martin Westgate

"Inquests and the Right to Protection of Law" - Legal Action, May 2004
by Stephen Cragg

"A new system of police complaints" - Legal Action, April 2004
by Stephen Cragg

"Dress nonsense" - Solicitors Journal, 27 February 2004
by Jeannie Mackie

"Privacy of the jury" - Solicitors Journal, 13 February 2004
by Richard Fisher

"Investigating the state" - New Law Journal, 28 November 2003
by Patrick O'Connor QC and Henrietta Hill

"A missed opportunity" - Solicitors Journal, 7 November 2003
Paul Bowen and Stephen Cragg

"Scrutinising the bill" - New Law Journal, 1 August 2003
by Patrick O'Connor QC and Henrietta Hill

"Two Years of the Human Rights Act" - European Human Rights Law Review, 2003, No 1
by Keir Starmer

"Mind the gap" - New Law Journal, 20 December 2002
by Jamie Burton