Earlier this week Charon interviewed Lord Falconer about his attempt to amend the law to legalise assisted suicide in some cases – they also discussed the new Supreme Court. It’s a good listen, timed perfectly for this week with […]

I’ve been slow in reacting to the Lords’ final judgment yesterday in R (Purdy) v DPP, partly because I was in Cambridge, but partly because I’ve been worrying at the judgment since I heard the news reports […]

Liverpool City council has claimed that the population of the city has now stabilised after decades of decline – but this case last week shows the effects of that decline still cause problems, as the Council had to decide […]

I’m delighted to say that LawMinx has awarded me one of her “blawggies” for being even better than Melvyn Bragg, which is very nice indeed. I have to thank Blogger (even though I’m going to desert them […]

Lord Lester, writing in the Guardian today, explains why he resigned as the government’s independent adviser on constitutional change. I have some sympathy for Lord Lester – he had the experience (that many civil servants have had) of finding […]

The Court of Appeal has given judgment today in SRM Global Master Fund v HM Treasury – the human rights challenge by Northern Rock shareholders to the government’s compensation scheme on nationalisation.

The complaint was based […]

I’m encouraging readers to vote for their fave political blogs in TotalPolitics magazine’s poll – there’s a button on the right to make it even easier. You have to name ten blogs in order of preference, so it needs […]

Last month, when talking about the big Californian case about Proposition 8, I mentioned the unexploded bomb created by articles 2, 3 and 4 of Directive 2004/38 on the free movement rights of EU citizens and their families: they […]

Charon interviewed me today: we spoke about the Supreme Court, its origins and what we expect from it, and whether the superficial change from House of Lords to Supreme Court will bring with it more significant changes, such as […]

I seriously dislike the word governance. Okay, it has some reasonable uses: in the phrase corporate governance, for instance, in which it has a useful sense of oversight from on high. Otherwise, it’s unbearably pompous. I […]