Nicola Monaghan
@nicolamonaghan.bsky.social
Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester teaching Criminal Law and Evidence. Author. Research interest in the jury. PhD student at the University of Northampton.
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Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
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Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
August 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
August 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
I am really excited about the publication of the 8th edition of my textbook, Criminal Law Directions. Thank you to the fabulous team at Oxford University Press for helping to get this edition over the finish line!
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I am really excited about the publication of the 8th edition of my textbook, Criminal Law Directions. Thank you to the fabulous team at Oxford University Press for helping to get this edition over the finish line!
Court Usher vacancy Worcester, Kidderminster
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Court Usher vacancy Worcester, Kidderminster
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www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
Great opportunity to become a Judicial Assistant with the UK Supreme Court and Privy Council: www.supremecourt.uk/working-for-...
Judicial assistant recruitment - UK Supreme Court
Judicial assistant recruitment
www.supremecourt.uk
February 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Great opportunity to become a Judicial Assistant with the UK Supreme Court and Privy Council: www.supremecourt.uk/working-for-...
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More dispatches from the UK criminal justice crisis - experts having cases re-listed for July 2027 (they're often a few years old already). Will they even still be employed or working then? Who can possibly predict. How can this even pretend to be a functioning justice system?
February 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
More dispatches from the UK criminal justice crisis - experts having cases re-listed for July 2027 (they're often a few years old already). Will they even still be employed or working then? Who can possibly predict. How can this even pretend to be a functioning justice system?
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In this new blog, Bar course student Olivia Hardiman shares her experience of volunteering with national education charity Young Citizens as part of The Big Legal Lesson – a campaign to start a conversation about rights, responsibilities, and the rule of law in schools.
Read more⬇️
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Read more⬇️
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February 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In this new blog, Bar course student Olivia Hardiman shares her experience of volunteering with national education charity Young Citizens as part of The Big Legal Lesson – a campaign to start a conversation about rights, responsibilities, and the rule of law in schools.
Read more⬇️
bit.ly/3EyCRla
Read more⬇️
bit.ly/3EyCRla
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Announcement: #PhD #Scholarhship in #Crimology @ @monashuniversity.bsky.social in #Melbourne, Australia
Topics: #policing #punishment #restorativejustice #criminaljustice #hatecrime #genderbasedviolence #cybercrime
Deadline 16 Feb 26.
More details below
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Topics: #policing #punishment #restorativejustice #criminaljustice #hatecrime #genderbasedviolence #cybercrime
Deadline 16 Feb 26.
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January 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Announcement: #PhD #Scholarhship in #Crimology @ @monashuniversity.bsky.social in #Melbourne, Australia
Topics: #policing #punishment #restorativejustice #criminaljustice #hatecrime #genderbasedviolence #cybercrime
Deadline 16 Feb 26.
More details below
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Topics: #policing #punishment #restorativejustice #criminaljustice #hatecrime #genderbasedviolence #cybercrime
Deadline 16 Feb 26.
More details below
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Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started the Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...
Marshalling | Middle Temple
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January 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started the Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...
Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started rhe Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...
Marshalling | Middle Temple
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January 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Fabulous marshalling opportunity at Middle Temple for student members who have started rhe Bar Course. www.middletemple.org.uk/education-tr...
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Includes a just published online and open access piece by my UoPLaw colleague Prof Caroline Strevens (and Emma Jones) on perceptions of wellbeing among heads of UK law schools
doi.org/10.1080/0306...
doi.org/10.1080/0306...
January 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Includes a just published online and open access piece by my UoPLaw colleague Prof Caroline Strevens (and Emma Jones) on perceptions of wellbeing among heads of UK law schools
doi.org/10.1080/0306...
doi.org/10.1080/0306...
Interesting case on jury misconduct from New South Wales: R v Tembeleski (No2) [2024] NWSDC 504. Jury discharged after a juror brought a Law dictionary into the jury room & no other juror raised the judge's direction not to conduct research. www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/192...
R v Tembeleski (No 2)
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NSW Caselaw
www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au
January 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Interesting case on jury misconduct from New South Wales: R v Tembeleski (No2) [2024] NWSDC 504. Jury discharged after a juror brought a Law dictionary into the jury room & no other juror raised the judge's direction not to conduct research. www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/192...
Pleased to see that the Law Commission are looking at the law on homicide in 2025: lawcom.gov.uk/project/revi...
Reviewing the law of homicide - Law Commission
The law of homicide was subject to a thorough review by the Law Commission of England and Wales in the early 2000s. We published recommendations for reform of partial defences to murder in 2004. Many ...
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January 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Pleased to see that the Law Commission are looking at the law on homicide in 2025: lawcom.gov.uk/project/revi...
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Your honor I know how this sounds but my dog literally tried to eat my jury duty summons
January 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Your honor I know how this sounds but my dog literally tried to eat my jury duty summons
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Watch our new Chair Barbara Mills KC on Channel 4 News. In her first broadcast interview, she spoke to Ayshah Tull about her priorities for the justice system and the year ahead.
www.channel4.com/news/barbara...
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Barbara Mills KC on being first Black Chair of the Bar
For the first time in its 131 year history, the Bar Council which represents barristers in England and Wales has appointed the first black woman to lead the organisation.
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January 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Watch our new Chair Barbara Mills KC on Channel 4 News. In her first broadcast interview, she spoke to Ayshah Tull about her priorities for the justice system and the year ahead.
www.channel4.com/news/barbara...
www.channel4.com/news/barbara...
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Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
📈Today, 14 January 2025, 109 out of the 516 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting.
That's 21% of them.
#courtstats #CS14012025 courtstats.co.uk
That's 21% of them.
#courtstats #CS14012025 courtstats.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
It began under the last government, and continues under this one.
Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won.
Volunteering opportunities for both law students and academics available here: www.bvl.org.uk/volunteer-su...
Volunteer for or support BVL
Volunteer for or Support BVL
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January 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Volunteering opportunities for both law students and academics available here: www.bvl.org.uk/volunteer-su...
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⚖️Almost 2/3 of the UK don’t know their basic legal rights. Want to help change that?
Young Citizens is looking for volunteers to deliver the Big Legal Lesson. Help those at your local schools and colleges engage in conversation about the law and human rights.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/3BURRJr
Young Citizens is looking for volunteers to deliver the Big Legal Lesson. Help those at your local schools and colleges engage in conversation about the law and human rights.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/3BURRJr
Volunteer to deliver The Big Legal Lesson in a local school - Young Citizens
Help us start a conversation about the law in schools The Big Legal Lesson is back! Since 2020, our...
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January 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
⚖️Almost 2/3 of the UK don’t know their basic legal rights. Want to help change that?
Young Citizens is looking for volunteers to deliver the Big Legal Lesson. Help those at your local schools and colleges engage in conversation about the law and human rights.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/3BURRJr
Young Citizens is looking for volunteers to deliver the Big Legal Lesson. Help those at your local schools and colleges engage in conversation about the law and human rights.
Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/3BURRJr
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a very mixed picture on open justice here from the excellent @kirkkorner.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cour...
Crisis in courts has opened the door to secret justice
In a criminal justice system mired in crisis and beset by delays and backlogs, why are courts becoming more secretive? Tristan Kirk investigates how the public, journalists, and even defendants are be...
www.standard.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
a very mixed picture on open justice here from the excellent @kirkkorner.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/cour...
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Interested in becoming a solicitor member of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee?
If so, see:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8443
Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025
#UKlegal #CPRC
If so, see:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8443
Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025
#UKlegal #CPRC
Appointment details – Solicitor member - Criminal Procedure Rule Committee – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK
GOV.UK
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January 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Interested in becoming a solicitor member of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee?
If so, see:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8443
Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025
#UKlegal #CPRC
If so, see:
apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8443
Application deadline: 11am on 4 February 2025
#UKlegal #CPRC
Great opportunity to join the Law Commission as a Research Assistant. Setpember 2025 start date. Details can be found here: lawcom.gov.uk/our-work/res...
Research assistants - Law Commission
Applications are now open for Research Assistant vacancies to start in September 2025 Cliciwch ar y ddolen hon am fersiwn Cymraeg y dudalen hon. Deadline for applications is 11.55 pm on Friday 31 Janu...
lawcom.gov.uk
January 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great opportunity to join the Law Commission as a Research Assistant. Setpember 2025 start date. Details can be found here: lawcom.gov.uk/our-work/res...
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So, 2025 is the year that I get to introduce/inflict my new pseudonymous pen name - S.J. Fleet.
And send this little critter out into the world.
August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).
And good Lord I’m terrified.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...
And send this little critter out into the world.
August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).
And good Lord I’m terrified.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...
January 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
So, 2025 is the year that I get to introduce/inflict my new pseudonymous pen name - S.J. Fleet.
And send this little critter out into the world.
August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).
And good Lord I’m terrified.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...
And send this little critter out into the world.
August 2025 will be the debut of The Cut Throat Trial (although you can pre-order now).
And good Lord I’m terrified.
www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...