Law in Focus: 'Is EU Criminal Law a Threat to British Justice?' - John Spencer

In this edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Professor John Spencer - one of the authors of the Corpus Juris project - responds to a recent article entitled "Innocent until proven guilty? Not under the EU's justice system" written in The Independent by Nigel Farage, UKIP Leader and MEP for the South East of England.

This item also features on the Cambridge University Research Pages.

Professor Spencer is Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal justice matters and has been involved in a number of law reform projects.  For more information about Professor Spencer, please refer to his staff profile.

Law in Focus is a series of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty.  Law in Focus is available on YouTube, or to subscribe to in iTunes U.

Other collections of video and audio recordings from the Faculty of Law are available at Lectures at Law.