I broadly welcome the Commons European Scrutiny Committee’s report about the inter-governmental conference on the Reform Treaty.

The most important point they make is that the Reform Treaty is the “substantial equivalent” of the Constitution. The committee is […]

Jack Straw’s speech at Bournemouth the other week contained a surprise: the Labour government having rejected amendment to the law of self-defence a couple of years back, now the new Lord Chancellor says

the […]

EU Law Blog has posted the latest draft of the Reform Treaty, as it’s emerged from the group of http://www.nflauthenticjersey.com/ Council, Commission and Member States’ governments’ legal experts that have been working on it in Brussels since […]

One of the things I omitted to comment on in my September slackness was Mervyn King’s explanation to the Commons Treasury Select Committee of why he couldn’t organise a secret takeover of Northern Rock bank, or give it covert support.

Most discussion of the possibility of a November election assumes that the decision is solely Gordon Brown’s. But is it really that simple? I think not.

It’s the Queen who dissolves Parliament in fact, by issuing a proclamation under […]

My post yesterday, I now realise, was suffused with a heavy weariness. I do find Fayed and his litigious crusading pretty tiresome: though I suppose I have to forgive him the Neil Hamilton nonsense, since it was Hamilton who sued […]

Apparently, Mohammed Fayed is unhappy with the opening statement of the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, in the Diana and Dodi inquest, which he thinks could give “an appearance of bias”.

How astonishing!

Fayed has of course […]

I spent this evening at an event organised by the Human Rights Lawyers Association at which Michael Wills, Minister of State at Minijust responsible among many things for human rights policy, spoke about the Brown government’s approach to human […]

I’m afraid the police are simply making fools of themselves by seizing a photograph by Nan Goldin from the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. This reminds me of a similar story from 2001, when a photgraph by Tierney Gearon was […]