Inigo Bing Interviewed by Nick Higham

Former judge Inigo Bing tells of ten legal cases in the courts that changed the way we live as a society.

Bing says that while we might expect parliament to revise or repeal the law, it has often been legal cases that have identified the need for change in modern Britain. The courts have been asked to pronounce on ethical and moral challenges such as personal identity and autonomy, equal citizenship, the relationship of citizens to those in power, the freedom to protest and to speak freely and choices about life and death.

Bing is a retired judge and a bencher at Inner Temple. He worked as a district judge, recorder and circuit judge. Bing is author of Populism on Trial: What Happens When Trust in Law Breaks Down.here he talks to journalist Nick Higham, who was the BBC’s first ever media correspondent and is a former presenter of Meet the Author on the BBC news channel.