Oh no! She's going! Not quite yet, but the French justice minister Rachida Dati will leave Nicolas Sarkozy's government in a matter of weeks in order to run in the European elections. She's being reshuffled out, basically. Shame. She may [...]
I'm glad to say Rachida Dati is in the news again on the other side of the water. The Telegraph reports a claim that Nicolas Sarkozy suspects her of being the source of the recent rumours about his marriage; Le [...]
While the British government bans Islamist groups, it looks very much as though some kind of ban is going to be imposed in France on being completely veiled - wearing the niqab, chador and burka - in public. A committee [...]
Blawg Review is the weekly blog carnival for law blogs - I'm pleased and honoured to be today's host.The big legal news globally last week was the International Criminal Court's indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and [...]
A hot week for legal news from France. First, if you remember the controversy over the annulment of the marriage of a couple from Lille - on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin - then [...]
The other French story concerns Sarko's legal axewoman Rachida Dati, the very sexy but somewhat dangerous minister of justice. She's got herself into trouble by initially defending the judgment of a court in Lille, which granted annulment of a marriage [...]
Not only is the French justice minister Rachida Dati planning to close courts - Le Monde reckons a quarter of civil courts and half of employment tribunals are going to go; she's also suggested in an answer in the National [...]