Apparently Fayed is not planning further legal action in his “quest for truth” about Diana. There’s a turn-up. I find it especially moving that he’s giving up for the sake of the princes.

As has been widely reported today, the government has been defeated in judicial review challenge to the changes it made in 2006 to its highly-skilled migrant programme. Here’s the judgment.

It’s a classic legitimate expectation case, about […]

An interesting post at EU Law Blog about last week’s ECJ judgment in this case, about survivors’ pension and sexuality discrimination. It’s amazing, I always think, how fundamental EC discrimination law – human rights law, you might call […]

I sincerely hope so. Of course he doesn’t accept the unlawful killing verdict. He’ll believe there was a Nazi establishment murder plot until he meets the all-knowing conspiracy theorist in the sky, and no kind of inquiry could ever […]

The drawn-out farce of the Zimbabwean “elections” has now taken a mad legal turn, with the MDC going to law to force the election commission to release the results, but being prevented from entering the court by Mugabe’s police. […]

Here it is. Moral? Don’t wait 38 years to recover from the drugs. And anyway, isn’t Bach the real originator of this choon?

I thought you’d like to know what Dominic Sandbrook says about it in

Until now I’ve missed this judicial review judgment from March, about byelaws relating to a women’s peace camp at Aldermaston. The challenge to the byelaws succeeded in part, because they would have criminalised putting a jumper down on a […]

It’s two lawyers down, one to go after Shazia got herself fired from The Apprentice last night. Quite wrongly, to be fair: the awful Jenny or the wet Lucinda shoulda got the boot. Then again, shouldn’t these […]

The government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill got through second reading unopposed yesterday: the real action will come in votes on specific amendments at a later stage. You can find the Bill and explanatory notes to it, here, and here’s the […]

The European Commission has decided to investigate the UK’s state aid to Northern Rock. No surprise, this: such a massive rescue of a bank was bound to be looked into fully. And it seems to me inconceivable that the […]