The UK Justice System: Wendy Joseph QC and Dr Shahed Yousaf

How a society delivers justice is a reflection of how the country is run, and what values we hold dear. Are we getting it right?

Wendy Joseph QC has just stepped down as one of only a handful of judges qualified to preside over murder trials at the Old Bailey. And one of the few female ones at that. For the first time, she can talk about what it’s really like presiding over and ruling on life-changing cases. Through six extraordinary stories, she explores why we kill, what happens in court and what this teaches us about the society we live in.

Dr Shahed Yousaf is a prison doctor. Dedicated to caring for people on the margins of society, he tells us honestly and compassionately what it’s like to be their doctor in a system that’s chronically overcrowded, drastically underresourced and all too easy to ignore. But while the system is failing, he and his colleagues are doing their very best to prop it up.

Chaired by Olwen Brown