Walter Bagehot, in his high Victorian classic The English Constitution, wrote that

the danger of the House of Lords certainly is, that it may never be reformed.

Already the view’s been expressed that if you have a problem with the […]

The big news from America today of course is that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’s main legislative achievement, the “Affordable Care Act” or as some critics call it “Obamacare”. At its heart is what’s called […]

Two weeks ago now at Inner Temple, the Supreme Court Justice Lord Kerr gave the fifth annual Boydell Lecture – and chose as his title A European Understanding of “Judicial Authority” as highlighted in Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority. The […]

Following today’s second appeal hearing in the “Twitter joke trial” case, I spoke to Paul Chambers’s solicitor, David Allen Green of Preiskel & Co., and to his barrister John Cooper QC.

During the interview you’ll hear John Cooper suggest you might […]

Today I’ve been live-tweeting from the appeal hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in the “Twitter joke trial” case, where Paul Chambers is appealing his conviction under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for sending a tweet of […]

We’ve learned to expect the unexpected in the case of Julian Assange: his case always seems to throw up one more unusual legal twist. Which is astonishing in what is, in reality, a straightforward case of a proper and lawful […]

On Without Prejudice this week, Charon QC chairs as Kim Evans, commissioning editor of The Justice Gap and I discuss:

• the conviction of the Spectator over Rod Liddle’s piece on the Stephen Lawrence retrial;
• Hunt, Warsi and the […]

I’m not a “royalist”. Nobody in Britain is now in the old civil war sense of course, and I’m not one in the newer sense of loving the pageantry and froth that goes with royal occasions. In fact I used […]

Without Prejudice returns in its panel format this week! Charon QC chairs as David Allen Green, law student Jessica Vautier (who joins us for our discussion of social mobility in law and minimum salaries for trainee solicitors) and […]