Stephen Hesford’s resignation is very unhelpful from Baroness Scotland’s point of view, and may be very dangerous, too: Gordon Brown’s entire government is a fragile rock since the failed coup earlier this summer, and he must fear that the […]

Or interim guidelines, really. Here they are. They seem very sensible to me, unsurprisingly, and make it admirably clear that they do not purport to “clarify the law”. The CPS is consulting on them until 16 December – read […]

If you read magazines aimed largely at commercial lawyers, you’ll be familiar with the sort of article in which a solicitor argues against some proposed or actual piece of regulation, saying business would be better off without it. Sometimes they […]