Turkey’s Constitutional Court has decided to hear an application by a prosecutor to have Prime Minister Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party ruled unconstitutional on the basis that its threatens Turkey’s secular principles.

We’ve been here before: in […]

The reason the Pakistani situation caught my interest, and why I thought it was right to cover it to some extent in this blawg, was not just the central importance in that crisis of the Supreme Court, but also the […]

Justice Secretary Jack Straw is proposing that the Supreme Court, when it starts work in October 2009, should be expanded from the twelve Justices originally proposed: he’s suggesting the appointment of a number of “people’s justices” from outside the normal […]