Carl Gardner
March 28, 2012
The United States Supreme Court is currently hearing Department of Health and Human Services v Florida, in which President Obama’s Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is appealing the decision of a Federal Court of Appeals that the Patient Protection and […]
Carl Gardner
March 17, 2012
On Thursday night the BBC screened Rights Gone Wrong? presented by Andrew Neil and produced by Matthew Laza. I’m glad my mum reminded me to see it.
The human rights debate in this country seems to have got unfortunately bogged […]
Carl Gardner
March 16, 2012
By convention, the Queen grants Royal assent to legislation passed by the Lords and Commons. It’s only a constitutional convention that she does so: in other words, she does so because she herself, ministers, MPs and the public regard it […]
Carl Gardner
March 15, 2012
Yesterday I explained the facts and legal background to this case, and a short account of the first day of the hearing, which concluded just after 1 pm today. I was again in court to hear Jason Coppel complete […]
Carl Gardner
March 15, 2012
Having live-tweeted the Humphreys v HMRC hearing in the Supreme Court yesterday and today, I thought I’d experiment with Storify so that if you’re interested, you can get a sense of the hearing by reading through my tweets and […]
Carl Gardner
March 14, 2012
Today was the first day of the Supreme Court’s hearing in the case of Humphreys v HMRC, about sex discrimination in the child tax credit system.
Mr Humphreys is complaining about the fact that HMRC refused him child tax credit in […]
Carl Gardner
March 9, 2012
In Without Prejudice this week Charon QC chairs a free speech special.
Nick Cohen, writer, journalist and author of You Can’t Read This Book joins barrister, policymaker and former Conservative candidate Joanne Cash, David Allen Green […]
Carl Gardner
March 8, 2012
When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Karen Murphy’s successful appeal against conviction for dishonestly receiving a broadcast with intent to avoid payment under section 297(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, I mentioned that there […]
Carl Gardner
March 6, 2012
When I saw Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers give evidence to the Leveson inquiry last week, I did wonder for half a moment whether it could be sensible or right for her apparently to make statements about what had […]
Carl Gardner
March 6, 2012
The Court of Appeal has today rejected the appeal by BT and TalkTalk in their judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010. This is a disappointment for digital rights campaigners, but not legally surprising – the arguments made […]