They’re still at it. Suzy Gale, wife of the Conservative MP Roger Gale, says

I have taken advice from an employment lawyer and if this goes ahead I will be taking legal action for unfair dismissal or positive [sic] discrimination […]

We’re getting used by now to MPs moaning that the sensible expenses rules now being applied to them are supposedly unlawful. The latest claim is that preventing MPs from employing spouses and relatives would lead to unfair dismissal, […]

Following on from my Charon podcast yesterday, I thought it might help to put my thoughts in writing about last Friday’s judgment. It might be farcical, except that it relates to the cruel treatment and possibly torture of a prisoner. […]

I spoke to Charon QC this afternoon about last Friday’s judgment in R (Mohamed) v Foreign Secretary, in which the Administrative Court ruled that it should make public in its original judgment 7 paragraphs, consisting of 25 […]

I’m pleased the Guardian defeated Carter-Ruck in the Trafigura, Minton report, superinjunction affair. I don’t know or understand why a superinjunction was granted preventing publication of the fact of the injunction (as opposed to an ordinary injunction merely preventing publication […]

As you may well already know, Trafigura have abandoned their attempts to injunct publication of the “Minton report” – as the Guardian reported last night. I’m sorry to keep saying I told you so but the Guardian story confirms […]

The Guardian today is reporting that Carter-Ruck has written to the Speaker arguing that discussion of Trafigura and the injunction against the Guardian is sub judice. Here’s the Carter-Ruck letter.

First, what the letter says. To be fair to […]

The news that the BNP has conceded the need to change its constitution in the face of legal action by the EHRC represents a brilliant victory for the equality watchdog and its legal director, John Wadham. I take my […]

Some MPs are, predictably, whining about the letters being sent to them by Sir Thomas Legg, who’s been auditing their expenses going back over the last few years. Ann Widdecombe for instance has suggested there’s a “legal question mark” […]

In all this week’s discussion of Trafigura, relatively little attention has been paid to other legal stories – but HMIC’s review of the lessons learned from the Greengate-Galleygate affair deserves closer attention, I think, than it’s had. And Jacqui […]