Carl Gardner
April 28, 2008
And I mean to have one now – I’m off to Austria for a week, then visiting friends and resting for a little while after that so, in a turn of phrase that sounds familiar from drafting classes some years […]
Carl Gardner
April 25, 2008
Here’s the vast, 450-paragraph judgment of Andrew Smith J in OFT v Abbey and others, a judgment that will depress those poor banks even more, though it will cheer up money saving experts, impoverished law students, […]
Carl Gardner
April 23, 2008
This case is about a civil action against the police, who shot dead an unarmed man when raiding his home to arrest him. The policeman who fired the shot was acquitted of murder and manslaughter on the judge’s direction; […]
Carl Gardner
April 22, 2008
PJH law have spotted an interesting employment appeal case in which an employer has essentially succeeded in having a claim struck out on human rights grounds: to continue would breach its right to a fair hearing under the article […]
Carl Gardner
April 18, 2008
You have to hand it to Charon QC. He already writes what I think must be Britain’s most widely read law blog, and has taken a lead in establishing podcasts as a regular part of his offering. Now he’s […]
Carl Gardner
April 18, 2008
An interesting take on the Corner House judgment from Joshua Rozenberg in the Telegraph: he thinks the government got into difficulties because the case happened to be dealt with by the SFO, when it […]
Carl Gardner
April 18, 2008
I can now link to Collins J’s judgment in the case that received lots of media coverage the other day, on the right to life and troops in Iraq – although it looks as though some further observations from […]
Carl Gardner
April 15, 2008
I completely agree with David Pannick’s view in the Times today: the Fayed farce shows us coroners need the discretion to decline to carry out an inquest in specific circumstances – where a death has already been […]
Carl Gardner
April 15, 2008
A regular reader has let me know she’s “shocked” by my reactionary turn this last week. I suspect she may be easily shocked but I’ll risk sending her over the edge by linking to last week’s
Carl Gardner
April 14, 2008
I’m glad Lord Goldsmith spoke up about this in an interview on Sky News yesterday. I’m not so much interested in his defence of the decision to drop the investigation, but in the point of principle he raises (in […]