Carl Gardner
November 30, 2012
Without Prejudice returns – today from Gray’s Inn – to discuss the Leveson report and political reaction to it. Charon QC chairs as media lawyer and journalist David Allen Green, mature law student (and Without Prejudice sound consultant!) Jez Hindmarsh and I talk […]
Carl Gardner
November 28, 2012
If you’re interested in legally minded reports about how the press should be regulated, then there’s something you should read before tomorrow. Sir David Calcutt QC’s 1993 Review of Press Self-Regulation is worth another look, nearly twenty years on.
In […]
Carl Gardner
November 28, 2012
In his Kingsland memorial lecture last night, hosted by Policy Exchange, the former justice minister Nick Herbert MP argued that Britain should “leave the jurisdiction” of […]
Carl Gardner
November 22, 2012
Here is the government’s draft bill offering Parliament a menu of options on prisoners’ votes.
Carl Gardner
November 22, 2012
The Justice Secretary’s Commons statement on prisoners’ votes today was interesting in more ways than one.
First, he’s chosen to put forward a draft bill for pre-legislative scrutiny – rather than a fully-fledged bill. I’m not sure why that’s necessary: when […]
Carl Gardner
November 20, 2012
Here’s the transcript of Danny Nightingale’s Court Martial earlier this month, which was published on the Judiciary’s website. I’m grateful to John Moss for drawing it to my attention.
Carl Gardner
November 20, 2012
Since my last post on Danny Nightingale I’ve been in touch with his solicitor, Simon McKay. I asked him what he thought about the Attorney’s response to Philip Hammond, and he replied:
My view is that the AG has the ability […]
Carl Gardner
November 20, 2012
The Attorney General Dominic Grieve has been criticised for refusing to intervene in the case of Danny Nightingale, a soldier who pleaded guilty at a Court Martial recently to illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. Apparently Danny Nightingale’s […]
Carl Gardner
November 15, 2012
On Monday evening Arden LJ gave the UK Association for European Law’s annual address, at King’s College, London. You can read the speech in the window below.
She makes a number of interesting points about differences between the way different […]
Carl Gardner
November 13, 2012
I spoke to Charon QC earlier today, for the seventh report of his Law Tour. Unsurprisingly we spoke about Abu Qatada, the big legal story of the week and something that’s been on my mind since his […]