I was at a conference yesterday, which is why I didn’t blog about yesterday’s Lords judgment in A v Hoare and related appeals, in which they ruled that civil claims for damages can be made out of […]

Frances Gibb in today’s Times is reporting that the government will propose handing over to the DPP the Attorney’s role of consenting to a range of prosecutions – although otherwise, the Attorney’s role will remain unchanged.

Charon QC latest interviewee is Andrew Holroyd, President of the Law Society – who talks to him about the Society’s work on Zimbabwe and Pakistan, which you’ll know is an issue I’ve been concerned about since the lawyers’ protests […]

New appointees to the High Court bench are, it turns out, embarrassingly white, male, public-schooly and barristerial. I wish I could argue that true appointment on merit may or may not result in more black and women appointees, more […]

Charon QC spoke to me this weekend about Peter Hain, the Counter-Terrorism Bill, the committee stage of the EU (Amendment) Bill and Pakistan – listen to the podcast here – and don’t miss his weekly review.

I’m a bit disheartened by this story. I entirely agree that bail conditions should be properly enforced: the fact that Adam Swellings felt able to return to Warrington immediately after being bailed on condition he shouldn’t return […]

The Tory MP for Shrewsbury, Daniel Kawczynski, has tabled an interesting amendment which would require the government to renegotiate the Lisbon treaty to insert a declaration that the EU is based on its Christian faith, heritage, culture and […]

The Counter-Terrorism Bill has now been published, with explanatory notes. Clause 22 and Schedule 1 are what everyone’s been waiting for: the proposed extension of pre-charge detention beyond 28 days.

The idea under the amendments brought in […]

I heard via Charon QC, while checking my blawg feeds between teaching freedom of the person and free movement of persons, the news that Peter Hain has resigned from the Cabinet following the Electoral […]

I’ve not seen a lot of coverage of this, but the FCO has lost in its attempt to withhold disclosure of a draft of the “dodgy dossier” published before the invasion of Iraq. There’ll be a few glum faces in […]