The other reader request comes from an equally esteemed legal chap whose legal interests closely match those of Head of Legal and who finds early mornings equally or perhaps even more challenging. He asks what I […]

In my blawg radio silence earlier this week I received a couple of reader requests to deal with vital topics of the day. The first, from an estimable legal lady whose handbag bulges with law reports and Heat […]

Iain Dale picked up this morning on a surprising move from the Austrian Chancellor Gusenbauer: he’s promised a referendum on any new EU Treaty which “affects Austrian interests”.

This is a bit more complicated than it sounds. […]

You’ll know by now that Stuart Wheeler’s judicial review of the government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has failed: here’s the judgment. This is hardly a surprise: it was always a hopeless case. The real […]

Sorry you’ve heard so little of me recently: it’s been a busy week, what with lecturing, second marking, visiting philosophy-of-lawyers from Cambridge and other personal stuff. I’ll say a thing or two later today, though.

The Lords’ judgment in the case of In Re P (Northern Ireland) is an important one on the relationship between the UK courts applying the Human Rights Act 1998 on the one hand, and the European Court […]

Why on earth is anyone waiting anxiously for the result of the run-off “election” in Zimbabwe? If people there are brave enough to dare to vote for the MDC (and resourceful enough to get round all the barriers Mugabe will […]

Following his successful appeal in April, it’s being reported now that Abu Qatada is about to be released on bail.

I wouldn’t have thought you’re likely to bump into him in the street, though, since he’s got […]

I can’t link to the Court of Appeal judgment yet: I will when it’s available. But Samina Malik’s conviction under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 has been quashed, on the basis that the jury […]

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has given an important judgment about tips, service charges and the national minimum wage: it has ruled that restaurant employers who make inadequate wages up to the minimum wage level by redistributing service charges and […]