Carl Gardner
November 19, 2007
How simply astonishing. I like the BBC euphemism “reshaped”, for “hand-picked”.
Carl Gardner
November 16, 2007
Carl Gardner
November 16, 2007
I don’t know – but if your judges operate like this, you must be “up there”. Don’t despair, though: you can always work for a man’s law firm, if the specialized committee agrees to allow that.
Carl Gardner
November 14, 2007
Today the Lords gave judgment in AH (Sudan), an important asylum case involving a “country guidance” decision from the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, but specifically on the question of internal relocation: whether it’s reasonable to expect a refugee subject […]
Carl Gardner
November 13, 2007
I can’t quite believe the extent of my disagreement with David Pannick’s article in today’s Times, the title of which suggests it may be about immigration, but which is actually about the government’s planned “British bill of […]
Carl Gardner
November 10, 2007
I’m not long back from attending today’s protest opposite Downing Street. There were a couple of hundred people, mainly Muslim League supporters it seemed, at least judging by the flag and noise quotient, though there were also supporters of […]
Carl Gardner
November 10, 2007
I’m delighted that representatives of lawyers throughout the world are supporting the protests led by their counterparts against martial law in Pakistan. The American Bar Association and our own Law Society and Bar Council have written to General […]
Carl Gardner
November 8, 2007
A few days ago I missed the news that the police will be taking no action in respect of the Nan Goldin photo taken from the Baltic in Gateshead.
How amazing!
I did suggest this was […]
Carl Gardner
November 7, 2007
I can’t go to today’s protest as it turns out, but since I’ve just been reading Popper (see how intellectual this blog is?) I thought I’d share with you some words of his about the choice between democracy and tyranny […]
Carl Gardner
November 6, 2007
In my last post, I missed out a link to Pakistan United – it’s a forum for organising action in support of the protests in Pakistan, and you can register there and Cheap Jerseys find out […]