Carl Gardner

My tweets from the Humphreys hearing

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 links. You can either shuffle through them in the viewer below or click through to see [...]

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Humphreys v HMRC: Supreme Court hearing

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 2004-5. His children were staying with him 3 days a week – and 4 [...]

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Without Prejudice

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 and me to talk about free speech in Britain today including: threats to free speech from extreme religion, the [...]

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Karen Murphy’s costs

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 was a long argument about costs: Martin Howe QC, for Ms. Murphy, argued that the case [...]

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Attorney General “considers concerns” over Akers’ evidence to Leveson

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 happened at the Sun as though it were fact – when people had reportedly been arrested [...]

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BT & TalkTalk v Business Secretary

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 by BT and TalkTalk never looked strong, and Mr Justice Kenneth Parker’s original judgment in the [...]

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Without Prejudice

March 2, 2012

Charon QC chairs Without Prejudice as usual as Gary Slapper, Times Law columnist and Director of NYU in London joins David Allen Green and me to discuss: civil disobedience and the rule of law the “Sedley v Sumption debate” about whether judges are becoming too political the Leveson inquiry, and whether the News of the [...]

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Draft Brighton Declaration on reforming the ECtHR

March 1, 2012

Thanks to Antoine Buyse of the ECHR Blog, whose post at the UK Human Rights Blog alerted me to the leak of the UK’s draft declaration on reforms to the European Court of Human Rights, for agreement by the member states of the Council of Europe at Brighton in April. Thanks too to the Guardian, [...]

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The legality of the “fiscal treaty”

February 29, 2012

This afternoon after Prime Minister’s questions Bill Cash MP (what would we do without him?) has secured a debate in Parliament about the legality of the “fiscal treaty” – the new agreement between EU member states other than Britain (and the Czech Republic) intend to guarantee fiscal discipline in the Eurozone. Here’s the text published [...]

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Conor Gearty on the DNA of human rights

February 25, 2012

Everything Professor Conor Gearty says about human rights is interesting: he combines a great speaking style with a knack of saying something you didn’t quite expect. So this LSE “Burning Issue” lecture of his is bound to be worth seeing.

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