At the Commons Home Affairs select committee today, both the DPP Sir Ken MacDonald and the last Attorney General Lord Goldsmith have said they see no need to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects beyond 28 days.

Damningly […]

Iain Dale has raised the question whether those whose data has been leaked by HMRC could sue.

The answer is, strictly no; you can’t sue simply for loss of your data. But if you suffer damage – say, […]

Le Monde says the former French President was questioned this morning by juge d’instruction Xavière Siméoni. The dossier she’s investigating relates to the misuse of funds from the office of the mayor of Paris – […]

There are two of them.

First, Ward v PSNI, in which the Lords ruled that it was lawful, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for a judge considering an extension of detention, so that the police could […]