Robert Buckland Weblog

The BBC have obtained figures showing that the number of “hung juries” on trials in England and Wales has doubled since 2006.  My worry is that although these figures are interesting,  they give us no clue as to why this is.  I very much hope that those who presume to control “outcomes” from the criminal [...]

I have been chastised by one of my readers,  the hardworking and blogging Zehra Zaidi, one of the South West Region’s Conservative European election candidates,  that I don’t blog more often.  The trouble is, there are times when certain court cases fill my head somewhat, and I was chasing a deadline for an article on developments in [...]

Yesterday’s Convention on Modern Liberty was an opportunity for people of all parties and none to come together at different locations across the country to review the extent to which our freedoms are being curtailed by the current Government and its policies.   I was delighted to be a guest speaker at the Cardiff event on [...]