The legality or otherwise of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 has been the biggest international legal issue of our time – and it continues to cause division and disagreement not only in the Dog and […]

Pakistan’s fallen out the the headlines here in Britain. Even worse, we just get the odd snippet of news – Musharraf quits as army chief; Musharraf promises elections in January; Musharraf announces the emergency will end on 15 December – […]

It seems the former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has produced (well, sort of) a 3-CD collection of songs telling the story of her country. Song of America will feature covers http://www.gooakley.com/ of famous tunes […]

A report on an interesting housing case in the Court of Appeal, from Nearly Legal. Essentially the result is that, when deciding http://www.gooakley.com/ whether you’re homeless and in need of being housed, a local authority can’t just […]

I’ve been so hugely busy, what with law lecturing, festivals of burlesque cinema, podcasting with Charon and all that, that I’ve neglected to post a report of last Thursday night’s politico-legal boozefest when Head of Legal managed somehow […]

I’m quite a fan of podcasts (I go walking in London’s parks with them) and am a great admirer of those bloggers who produce them – notably Charon QC – so I’m well chuffed to be his […]

The Adminstrative Court has today dismissed a judicial review brought by the fundamentalist organisation Christian Voice. Its director Stephen Green had challenged the decision of the District Judge in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court not to issue summonses […]

I’ve left it far, far too long before commenting on the important “ship-source” pollution case in which the European Court of Justice gave its ruling a few weeks ago. Remiss of me. But even if the delay means I’ve […]

The Lords judgment handed down today is in a Hague Convention child abduction case: there is discretion under article 12 of the not to order the return even of an unlawfully abducted child, in exceptional circumstances.

Well, the Sudanese have finally done the right thing. Not before time. I think what they’ve done has been pathetic and outrageous, though. Not only did the regime allow her conviction: it also organised demonstrations of “militants” to show […]