Today I’ve been live-tweeting from the appeal hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in the “Twitter joke trial” case, where Paul Chambers is appealing his conviction under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 for sending a tweet of […]

We’ve learned to expect the unexpected in the case of Julian Assange: his case always seems to throw up one more unusual legal twist. Which is astonishing in what is, in reality, a straightforward case of a proper and lawful […]

On Without Prejudice this week, Charon QC chairs as Kim Evans, commissioning editor of The Justice Gap and I discuss:

• the conviction of the Spectator over Rod Liddle’s piece on the Stephen Lawrence retrial;
• Hunt, Warsi and the […]

I’m not a “royalist”. Nobody in Britain is now in the old civil war sense of course, and I’m not one in the newer sense of loving the pageantry and froth that goes with royal occasions. In fact I used […]

Without Prejudice returns in its panel format this week! Charon QC chairs as David Allen Green, law student Jessica Vautier (who joins us for our discussion of social mobility in law and minimum salaries for trainee solicitors) and […]

In my post earlier today about Julian Assange’s Supreme Court appeal, today’s judgment and the unusual procedural turn that followed it. To remind you, the suggestion made by Dinah Rose QC, for Julian Assange, was that she might apply to […]

Here’s today’s Supreme Court judgment: the Justices decide by a majority of 5 to 2 to dismiss Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition. The term “judicial authority” in Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 does include public prosecutors such […]

Tomorrow the UK Supreme Court gives its eagerly-awaited judgment in Assange v Swedish Judicial Authority, in which it will decide whether the Swedish prosecutor is indeed a judicial authority for the purposes of Part 1 of the Extradition Act […]

Before Without Prejudice returns in its normal panel format, yesterday Charon QC and I recorded a special discussion covering:

• Prisoners’ votes following the European Court of Human Rights’s judgment in Scoppola v Italy
• the proposal for developed vetting of inquest juries […]

This case involved Italy, not Britain – but nonetheless today’s judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, about prisoner’s rights to vote, represents a small but significant victory for the British government. The Court […]