The new Attorney is not, unfortunately, Lord Head of Legal, but is indeed Baroness Scotland, as predicted here (well, sort of). The civil servants or web http://www.gooakley.com/ contractors at Patsy’s new den haven’t yet updated […]

The House of Lords gave an important judgment yesterday, in YL v Birmingham City Council, on the scope of the Human Rights Act: it ruled by a 3-2 majority that a care home which provides care and accommodation to […]

Interesting to see that Joshua Rozenberg in today’s Telegraph takes the same view as Head of Legal about the next Attorney General. It’s probably either Baroness Scotland or Lord Grabiner. Mind you, given Gordon Brown’s wooing of possibly […]

Last Thursday the ECJ gave judgment for the UK in infraction proceedings brought by the Commission. This is a major victory for the UK; and it might even turn out, one day, to be a milestone in the history […]

The House of Lords judgment in the Al-Skeini case today means the Human Rights Act will apply to what UK public authorities, such as the Army, do beyond these shores in areas of effective British control – like for […]

Sir Stephen Richards has been acquitted today of “flashing” on commuter trains. This was an extraordinary case, but also one which typifies the way witnessing or being the victim (if that’s the right word in a case like this) […]