1. Introduction, Ed Johnston
2. Legal Assistance at the Police Station: Shifts and contradictions in the context of COVID-19, Ed Johnston and Ed Cape
3. Jury Decision-making in the Criminal Trial, Rebecca K. Helm and Maddy Millar
4. The Jury on Trial: Guilty or Not Guilty? Investigating jury trial issues through a comparative analysis, Cristina D’Aniello
5. Contemporary Issues in Criminal Court Procedure, Jenni Ward
6. Vulnerability in the Criminal Trial, Samantha Fairclough
7. Caught in the Net: Police powers of investigation and the risks for autistic individuals, Tom Smith
8. Diversity in the Criminal Justice System, James Pickles
9. Listening to ‘Leading Voices’: Using Expert Insight to Identify Challenges to, and Suggestions for the Improvement of, Rape Investigation and Prosecution in England and Wales, Benjamin Hine, Anthony D. Murphy, Emma Williams & Bimsara Kennath Widanaralalage Don
10. Paedophile Hunters and the Road to Injustice, Karen Walton and Rebecca Penfold
11. Prisoners’ Human Rights in England and Wales: Zigzags, flatlines and missed opportunities, Anastasia Karamalidou
12. ‘Regulated from a spirit of hostility:’ Independence and the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Jon Robins
Biography
Ed Johnston is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Northampton, UK. His research interests are in the areas of disclosure, the role of the defence lawyer and rise of managerialism in an adversarial setting. Ed has recently published his monograph, The Role of the Defense Lawyer: Perceptions and Conceptions within a Changing System. He is the co-author of the Criminal Procedure and Punishment textbook and has published a number of articles concerning changes to the criminal justice process.
