The other court case that has attracted massive interest this week has of course been that of Lillian Ladele, who, an Employment Tribunal has found, was both directly and indirectly discriminated against on grounds of her religion, and was […]

A reader has asked me what I think of the widely reported conviction and fine of Jason Howard for dangerous cycling which killed Rhiannon Bennet in Buckingham last year.

It’s always difficult to comment on cases like this. […]

Not all calls for “clarification” of the law are nonsense, but it is well worth being sceptical about such calls generally: often they rest on the assumption that the law should always rely on clear-cut black and white definitions. An […]

Last month you may remember I wrote about the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s threat to go to court claiming the Counter-Terrorism Bill is incompatible with Convention rights, and mentioned that Jacqui Smith had written to CEHR boss Trevor Phillips […]

Munby J gave judgment last Thursday in the Administrative Court in a fascinating case about whether the admissions policy of the Jewish Free School is lawful – the complaint coming from the parents of a boy who was refused […]

This weekend Charon interviewed John Hirst of Prison Law Inside Out about his experience of life in prison, his thoughts on the penal system and about his victory a couple of years ago in the European Court of Human […]

Here’s another good one from the learned Mufti. In answer to the question “what can the wife do if the husband refuses to divorce her?” he says:

The above verses are just some of the examples […]

As Lord Phillips helpfully pointed out in his lecture last night, in which he defended the Rowan Williams line, sharia is a set of principles ultimately based on the Koran. Good to know, eh?

But did you know that, […]

Here’s the full text of Lord Phillips’s lecture last night.

There’s an eccentric side to Lord Phillips: I remember his speech to new bar students in 1992 in which he advocated our criminal justice system should adopt aspects of the French “investigative” approach to finding truth. Then there was his […]