Carl Gardner
March 31, 2009
Last week the House of Representatives in Washington passed a Bill taxing at about 90% the bonuses received by employees of firms given $5 Billion or more in taxpayer support. Here’s a Washington Post story […]
Carl Gardner
March 17, 2009
Last week in Strasbourg, the Times lost its claim in the European Court of Human Rights that the way libel law in the UK applies to online newspaper archives breaches the right to freedom of expression under […]
Carl Gardner
March 16, 2009
I’m delighted that, finally, the Pakistani government has given way to pressure from lawyers and Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N party, and decided to reinstate the Chief Justice Iktikhar Chaudhry and the remaining handful of judges deposed by General Musharraf when […]
Carl Gardner
March 13, 2009
I’m grateful to John Bolch at Family Lore for pointing out that Lord Lester’s Cohabitation Bill has its second reading in the Lords today. Lord Lester’s proposal, supported by Resolution, is aimed at protecting people who’ve lived […]
Carl Gardner
March 11, 2009
Max Mosley appeared before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee yesterday to talk about the exposure of his private life by the News of the World last year, his successful privacy action and the law on privacy generally.
Carl Gardner
March 9, 2009
Blawg Review is the weekly blog carnival for law blogs – I’m pleased and honoured to be today’s host.
The big legal news globally last week was the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir […]
Carl Gardner
March 5, 2009
Anna Raccoon and Dizzy have both expressed their surprise that the Solicitor General Vera Baird QC appears to have commented on Anna’s blog: she was correcting the fairly common belief that Lord Ahmed was convicted of causing […]
Carl Gardner
March 3, 2009
A lot’s being written and said on the airwaves this week about how lawyers are supposedly crawling over Sir Fred Goodwin’s exceedingly generous pension from RBS. Well, I’ll leave it to the pensions experts to speculate about whether his […]