Carl Gardner
January 31, 2008
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 […]
Carl Gardner
January 29, 2008
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.
Carl Gardner
January 29, 2008
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 […]
Carl Gardner
January 28, 2008
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 […]
Carl Gardner
January 27, 2008
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.
Carl Gardner
January 27, 2008
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 […]
Carl Gardner
January 26, 2008
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 […]
Carl Gardner
January 25, 2008
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 […]
Carl Gardner
January 23, 2008
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 […]