David Miliband’s statement in the Commons yesterday was quite revealing, and confirms the accuracy of the story leaked to the Sunday Times suggesting that, privately, the government believes Lisbon is dead. Most of the statement and reactions to […]

The two opinion pieces that have most closely reflected my views are those by John Rentoul in the “Sindy“ yesterday and Hugo Brady at Comment is Free. I think John Rentoul is right that

In all the excitement over 42 days and the Lisbon Treaty last week I missed the fact that the Home Secretary successfully defended a judicial review challenge from the police over their pay settlement. She did not act unlawfully […]

Big public law issues have come thick and fast this week, so today Charon QC and I talk about what happens now to the Lisbon Treaty, after the Irish “No”: what the options are, and what I think

I’m sorry to say the new Pakistani government has been dragging its feet about restoring the judges deposed by General Musharraf last November – but I’m glad to say the lawyers’ movement is keeping up the pressure with a big […]

I’ve not posted yet on this important case from the US Supreme Court: I’m sorry, there’s just been too much fun happening in the British Isles this week. But I mustn’t keep you from the judgment itself; here’s a […]

It is No, then. I’m pleased, I must say. It’s not that I’m a Eurospectic: I’m not. Actually I think most of the content of the Treaty is perfectly reasonable. Why I would have voted no, and why I’m […]

If this is right, it’s astonishing news, and Europe will be pitched into crisis again. I can understand how Irish voters came to say No: as Michael Portillo said on telly last night, simply the knowledge that the French, […]

Now that Dominic Grieve has been promoted to David Davis’s old job, legal nerds like me wonder who’s going to get his role as shadow Attorney General. The simplest, quickest thing might be to give it to Edward Garnier, […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier about the 42 days, the government’s grubby deals, prospects for the Counter-Terrorism Bill in the Lords, and a bit about the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, too. You can hear the podcast […]