Yesterday I explained the facts and legal background to this case, and a short account of the first day of the hearing, which concluded just after 1 pm today. I was again in court to hear Jason Coppel complete […]

Having live-tweeted the Humphreys v HMRC hearing in the Supreme Court yesterday and today, I thought I’d experiment with Storify so that if you’re interested, you can get a sense of the hearing by reading through my tweets and […]

Today was the first day of the Supreme Court’s hearing in the case of Humphreys v HMRC, about sex discrimination in the child tax credit system.

Mr Humphreys is complaining about the fact that HMRC refused him child tax credit in […]

In Without Prejudice this week Charon QC chairs a free speech special.

Nick Cohen, writer, journalist and author of You Can’t Read This Book joins barrister, policymaker and former Conservative candidate Joanne Cash, David Allen Green […]

When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Karen Murphy’s successful appeal against conviction for dishonestly receiving a broadcast with intent to avoid payment under section 297(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, I mentioned that there […]

When I saw Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers give evidence to the Leveson inquiry last week, I did wonder for half a moment whether it could be sensible or right for her apparently to make statements about what had […]

The Court of Appeal has today rejected the appeal by BT and TalkTalk in their judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010. This is a disappointment for digital rights campaigners, but not legally surprising – the arguments made […]

Charon QC chairs Without Prejudice as usual as Gary Slapper, Times Law columnist and Director of NYU in London joins David Allen Green and me to discuss:

• civil disobedience and the rule of law
• the “Sedley […]

Thanks to Antoine Buyse of the ECHR Blog, whose post at the UK Human Rights Blog alerted me to the leak of the UK’s draft declaration on reforms to the European Court of Human Rights, for agreement by […]

This afternoon after Prime Minister’s questions Bill Cash MP (what would we do without him?) has secured a debate in Parliament about the legality of the “fiscal treaty” – the new agreement between EU member states other than Britain (and […]