The Law Lords are back with their first judgments of the new year – in a private international law Lugano Convention case, Phillips v Syme, and in a VAT case, Fleming and Condé Nast […]

The doughty, determined, slightly hatstand doyen of English Tory Euroscepticism, Bill Cash MP, has tabled an amendment paper making provision for a referendum. No surprise there.

The opposition front bench has tabled a series of amendments to the bill: here they are. They seem designed simply to trigger debate particularly on the Common Foreign and Security Policy, though they’ve also tabled amendments which would require […]

Minijust has announced that Jenny Rowe will be the first chief executive of the Supreme Court. Until it opens officially for business in late 2009 she’ll be working with the Law Lords to manage the transition, as well as […]

The Reform Treaty, or Treaty of Lisbon as perhaps I should get used to calling it, is big news again, as the European Union (Amendment) Bill to give effect to it has its second reading today. Here are the […]

At the weekend I missed a Comment is Free piece by Leo Hickman, giving an insight into the strage but fun world of European food law on protected designations of origin: you know, parmesan cheese,

In this week’s Consilio audio review of the week’s legal news, I’m talking about the Garry Newlove case. Charon QC’s other guests are Tim Kevan, on why lawyers should surf, Peter Groves on parody and intellectual property, and Simon […]

This isn’t a case in the US Supreme Court, I’m sorry to say, but a piece at Huffington Post in which the famous lawyer lays into the evangelical candidate Mike (how am I not myself?) Huckabee’s […]

The Court of Appeal gave judgment yesterday in an interesting disability discrimination case about mental illness.

Elizabeth McDougall applied for a job at the college in 2005, and got it – subject to medical checks. But when those […]

An excellent and helpful post on EU Law Blog earlier this week set out the way the Reform Treaty categorises the competences of the EU under three broad headings: those things only the EU will have power to do […]