• Alan Johnson, independent schools and the Charities Act 2006

    Carl Gardner
    May 26, 2007

    I take my hat off to Alan Johnson: he’s managed to achieve a public profile far ahead of his Labour deputy leadership rivals this week with his brutal condemnation of Margaret Hodges remarks on housing, and now with his suggestion […]

  • The Attorney General, and Andrei Lugovoi

    Carl Gardner
    May 25, 2007

    What’s wrong with Lord Goldsmith? He’s been insisting today that Andrei Lugovoi must be extradited to the UK, even though it’s perfectly clear Russia cannot lawfully extradite him, and that the 1957 Convention does not oblige them to. So […]

  • The Charman divorce

    Carl Gardner
    May 24, 2007

    John Charman’s miffed that the Court of Appeal has upheld a financial award of £48,000,000 to his ex-wife Beverley on their divorce after 27 years. There’ll be a lot written on this in the newspapers tomorrow I dare say, […]

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  • Terri King’s successful unfair dismissal claim

    Carl Gardner
    May 24, 2007

    I’ve just heard a report on BBC News 24 about Southampton Employment Tribunal’s compensatory award of £18,000 for unfair dismissal to Terri King. Ms. King was sacked by her employer, Lymington Citizen’s Advice Bureau, for breaching their client confidentiality policy. […]

  • EU citizens, social housing and Margaret Hodge

    Carl Gardner
    May 23, 2007

    Nearly Legal – an excellent blawg with particular strength in housing law – wrote interestingly the other day about Margaret Hodge’s comment about economic migrants and access to social housing.

    But isn’t the position for EU citizens

  • Remedy UK loses judicial review

    Carl Gardner
    May 23, 2007

    RemedyUK has lost its judicial review claim against Patricia Hewitt, and she’s claiming costs against them, which they’re miffed about, not surprisingly. They’re not intending to appeal, so she can get on with the way ahead for the […]

  • HIPs delayed until August

    Carl Gardner
    May 22, 2007

    So, following an interim restraining order from the Administrative Court preventing her from bringing in requirement for house sellers to produce Energy Performance Certificates pending the full hearing of RICS’s judicial review, Ruth Kelly has decided to beat a tactical […]

  • Andrei Lugovoi

    Carl Gardner
    May 22, 2007

    I’m glad the DPP has recommended that Lugovoi be charged with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. I’ve no idea whether he’s guilty or innocent, of course. But the CPS obviously thinks there’s enough evidence to prosecute, and it’s good […]

  • Lord Grabiner? Baroness Scotland?

    Carl Gardner
    May 17, 2007

    Various newspapers have been reporting that the next Attorney General may be Lord Grabiner, a well-known commercial silk, and Labour peer since 1999. For some time I had suspected Baroness Scotland was the obvious

  • Missing Madeleine McCann

    Carl Gardner
    May 17, 2007

    I very much agree with Iain Dale about the media coverage of the “suspect” Robert Murat and indeed of the Russian man who’s now in the spotlight. I really wish the BBC and other media would think again before […]