Carl Gardner
November 12, 2012
Abu Qatada has won his appeal against the Home Secretary Theresa May’s refusal to revoke the fresh deportation order she issued in his case this April, following assurances she’d received from the Jordanian government about his retrial, if and […]
Carl Gardner
November 7, 2012
Earlier I posted Clive Stafford Smith’s response to my piece yesterday about what I called “Reprieve’s dodgy press release”. I said I’d set out my own comments on his response in a separate post – and here they are.
First, […]
Carl Gardner
November 7, 2012
Following my post yesterday which was critical of Reprieve’s press release about the recent Rahmatullah case in the Supreme Court, Reprieve’s Director Clive Stafford Smith has contacted me to respond.
I’ll set out my own comments on his response […]
Carl Gardner
November 7, 2012
Last week I was invited to sit round the famous kitchen table of Legal Cheek‘s Alex Aldridge. Over about forty minutes he asked about my career, the state of legal blogging and journalism, how to start up as a […]
Carl Gardner
November 6, 2012
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court gave judgment in this case in which Yunus Rahmatullah, who’s being held by American forces in Afghanistan, applied for habeas corpus against the British government. Rosalind English wrote a helpful summary of the judgment […]
Carl Gardner
November 1, 2012
Bram Moszkowicz, probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial lawyer in the Netherlands, was disbarred for life on Tuesday by the lawyers’ disciplinary body the Raad van Discipline, which found him to have breached a number of professional […]