David Boothroyd in his comment on my last post corrected me on a couple of factual points, as I pointed out in the update. As registered treasurer, Peter Watt (not Watts – apologies) can’t have committed offences under section […]

Iain Dale made an interesting post the other day on Abrahamsgate: he wondered whether David Abrahams’s donations, given by him via two of his employees and a solicitor (I’m afraid I have to say I wasn’t much […]

I’m just watching Louise Christian in a telly press conference explaining the basis of her client Marina Livinenko’s complaint against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights. Russia is a signatory of course; and the complaint is that […]

Thanks to Charon for spotting the Times story today reporting that both current law officers, Baroness Scotland and Vera Baird, agree with the line taken yesterday by Lord Goldsmith, and feel that the case has […]

At the Commons Home Affairs select committee today, both the DPP Sir Ken MacDonald and the last Attorney General Lord Goldsmith have said they see no need to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects beyond 28 days.

Damningly […]

Iain Dale has raised the question whether those whose data has been leaked by HMRC could sue.

The answer is, strictly no; you can’t sue simply for loss of your data. But if you suffer damage – say, […]

Le Monde says the former French President was questioned this morning by juge d’instruction Xavière Siméoni. The dossier she’s investigating relates to the misuse of funds from the office of the mayor of Paris – […]

There are two of them.

First, Ward v PSNI, in which the Lords ruled that it was lawful, under the Terrorism Act 2000, for a judge considering an extension of detention, so that the police could […]

Well, he didn’t quite say that in terms, as we lawyers say. But he did agree with the thrust of JB’s comment on my David Pannick fisk, in his interview in the Times today. […]

The judgment isn’t available online yet, but here’s a press release explaining the basis of the Musharraf ruling. If you’re interested, Wikipedia has an entry on the bogus new chief justice, Abdul Hameed Dogar.