Carl Gardner
March 19, 2008
If you’re like me, then reading legal journals or the legal pages of newspapers means, far too often, looking at yet another uncritical profile of or interview with some office-holder, often telling you how determined he or she is about […]
Carl Gardner
March 19, 2008
In the time since my last post I’m not at all surprised that Mr. Fayed has tried another judicial review; it’ll be astonishing if there’s ever an end to his Diana litigation.
Carl Gardner
March 12, 2008
There are five of them.
Brit Syndicates is about the construction of an insurance indemnity policy: not my kind of thing at all. Total Network is about VAT “carousel” or “MTIC” fraud […]
Carl Gardner
March 11, 2008
My heart is sinking as David Miliband opens the third reading debate on the EU (Amendment) Bill. Yet again all the same old arguments are going to be thrashed out, no doubt at great length, and repetitively. It’s all important, […]
Carl Gardner
March 11, 2008
Wow! I actually agree again with David Pannick in his Times column today. And not just on DNA and the UK’s defence in S and Marper case. I also think his comments on […]
Carl Gardner
March 11, 2008
I can’t not mention my old boss Lord Goldsmith’s report on citizenship, which has attracted a lot of attention because of its suggestion that teenagers might swear allegiance to Queen and country. I have to say if this had […]
Carl Gardner
March 11, 2008
Iain Dale’s famous blog linked the other day to a post at the EU Referendum blog, which suggests EU law may prevent the UK from imposing a higher rate of duty on alcopops, and casts doubt on Tory […]
Carl Gardner
March 7, 2008
Yesterday the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency announced it had decided not to prosecute GlaxoSmithKline for offences under medicines legislation, although it says GSK failed to inform it promptly of data it had from clinical trials suggesting that the […]
Carl Gardner
March 5, 2008
All the interminable committee debates on the EU (Amendment) Bill come to a head tonight, with a debate and vote on the Tories’ amendment, which would require a referendum – though they may withdraw this and back Labour backbencher Ian […]
Carl Gardner
March 5, 2008
A remarkable ruling last week from the ECJ in case C-506/06 Mayr v Flöckner, which extends the concept of sex discrimination under the Equal Treatment Directive, 76/207, to cover unfavourable treatment of a woman because she is […]