Carl Gardner
April 14, 2008
You may be as surprised as I am that Judge Uchena has ruled against the MDC in its attempt to force the Election Commission to release the results of the recent “election”.
Carl Gardner
April 13, 2008
Again the MDC is planning to go to court to challenge the decision of the Zimbabwe Election Commission – which clearly acts on the instructions of Mugabe and Zanu-PF – to order a recount in some constituencies. Nothing could […]
Carl Gardner
April 11, 2008
I’m interested in the fact that Poole Borough Council put the Paton family under surveillance because they thought they might have fraudulently applied for a school place for their daughter. I’m also interested in Liberty’s response.
I feel […]
Carl Gardner
April 11, 2008
I can’t link to the judgment yet; it’s not available. But the news is that Collins J has ruled that British troops in battle may enjoy the article 2 right to life, and that sending them into combat with […]
Carl Gardner
April 11, 2008
Gosh, what a legal week this has been! In all the flurry, I’ve not yet posted the judgment in which Eady J refused Max Mosley an injunction against the News of the World. Paragraph 4 of the […]
Carl Gardner
April 10, 2008
Corner House and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade have succeeded in their judicial review of the SFO’s decision to discontinue its investigation into possible bribery by BAe Systems related to the Al Yamamah arms contracts with Saudi Arabia. You’ll […]
Carl Gardner
April 10, 2008
As was widely reported yesterday, Abu Qatada succeeded in his appeal against deportation yesterday. Here’s the judgment (he’s also known as Omar Othman). The Court of Appeal has reversed the ruling of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission as […]
Carl Gardner
April 10, 2008
It’s the great fishnets debate, which has spread beyond the web pages of Legal Week to the Daily Mail and has come to the attention of the American Bar Association. Well, it’s nice […]
Carl Gardner
April 10, 2008
The remaining lawyer was, strangely enough, not fired from The Apprentice last night; Sara led her team slightly dicily to Bollywood Night victory, and lives to fight another day. You don’t think she could win it, do […]
Carl Gardner
April 9, 2008
A committee of nine Law Lords has unanimously rejected this claim that the article 2 Convention right to life of soldiers killed in Iraq requires the government to hold an inquiry into how the UK came to invade, how […]