A day after the Court of Appeal refused her permission to appeal to the Supreme Court in the Abu Qatada case, Theresa May’s announcement today of a mutual legal assistance treaty with Jordan seems finally to turn the case […]

The Media Reform Coalition has spotted that the current proposals in the Crime and Courts Bill, inserted at the last minute to give statutory backing to the press self-regulation system the main parties have agreed on, may not work properly […]

Parliament hasn’t yet published a text of the Crime and Courts Bill taking account of the recent Commons and Lords amendments dealing with press regulation. But seeing the provisions as they stand today may help discussion of the proposed system […]

In Monday’s Lords debate about the new press regulation provisions inserted into the Crime and Courts Bill, one line stands out above all. Discussing an amendment about the vicarious liability of publishers, justice minister Lord McNally said (column 876):

the […]

An exchange in last night’s Lords debate on the new press regulation clauses in the Crime and Courts Bill revealed a little-noticed – and no doubt to some, astonishing – aspect of the proposed system: it covers foreign publishers.

Lord […]

I wrote the other day that I was confused about a new clause inserted into the Crime and Courts Bill, as a result of cross-party agreement on press regulation. As originally drafted it protected regulated publishers from costs awards […]

In my last post, I said I was worried that the press self-regulation scheme agreed by the main political parties (and to be underpinned by a Royal Charter and two pieces of legislation) would not offer bloggers what it offers […]

Just before Lord Justice Leveson reported in November, I wrote in support of statutory press regulation:

Only legislation can require newspapers to submit even to their own enforcement of their own code …

What statute – and no other arrangement – […]

Charlie Rowe as Ronnie Winslow | Photo: Nobby Clark

Terence Rattigan’s famous play, about a father’s fight for justice for his son, was first staged in […]

Abu Qatada’s back in court today – or his lawyers will be, at least, contesting Theresa May’s appeal against the judgment of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission last November, which ruled that she acted unlawfully in not revoking her deportation order […]