David Allen Green returns to Without Prejudice this week, I’m pleased to say, and Dr. Evan Harris is back with us too. Charon QC chairs as always, as we discuss the Leveson inquiry at the end of […]

I was live-tweeting today from the High Court hearing of Paul Chambers’s appeal in the “Twitter joke” case – an important case not just because of the way it represents the law’s arguably problematic collision with social media but […]

Shortly after today’s hearing ended in Paul Chambers’s “case stated” appeal to the High Court in the “Twitter joke” case, I spoke to his solicitor David Allen Green – and asked him how he thought the hearing had gone.

I wrote in my last post, musing on what might happen if Julian Assange were to win his Supreme Court appeal, that

many Eurosceptics would prefer us simply to pull out of the entire system of criminal cooperation in Europe, […]

I doubt very much he will: I think the Supreme Court will be driven to conclude that the phrase judicial authority in the European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision is capable of including a public prosecutor, and that UK legislation […]

Without Prejudice is back in its panel format this week, as Professor Gary Slapper, Director of NYU in London, and barrister and former MP Jerry Hayes  join Charon QC and me to discuss:

• why do we need law […]

Julian Assange today takes his argument against extradition to Sweden to the UK Supreme Court. The hearing is due to finish tomorrow – it’s not clear yet when the Court is likely to publish its judgment.

There’s one question only being […]

In today’s Independent, President of the European Court of Human Rights Sir Nicolas Bratza defends the record of his court, and effectively pleads for more understanding in Britain. The European Court, he says

has been particularly respectful of decisions emanating […]

Last week the European Commission took the first step towards European Court proceedings against Hungary, over the country’s controversial new constitution, which took effect at the start of the year.

Here’s the Commission’s press release. It summarises the […]

Without Prejudice will be back on the podcast air properly in a couple of weeks in its panel format, but in the meantime Charon QC and I spoke last night about

• the government’s justice and security green paper on “closed […]