How simply astonishing. I like the BBC euphemism “reshaped”, for “hand-picked”.

Not only is the French justice minister Rachida Dati planning to close courts – Le Monde reckons a quarter of civil courts and half of employment tribunals are going to go; she’s also suggested in an […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]