Our own CPS is the answer, I think.

Here’s a report from a Swedish media source quoting Karin Rosander, spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecuting authority, as saying the decision to appeal was the CPS’s alone, not theirs. It quotes her […]

Komla Dumor interviewed me on The World Today this morning about the Julian Assange case. It begins at 9:20.

In case you’re wondering, I wasn’t really “legal adviser to Tony Blair”, which makes me sound as though I used to […]

Charon QC talked to me yesterday as a follow-up to his interview with Mark Stephens last Friday – by some way the most interesting interview I’ve heard Mark Stephens give since Julian Assange’s arrest last week. Charon and […]

CharonQC managed to secure an interview today with Mark Stephens – no doubt a very busy solicitor at the moment, given the arrest and detention of his client Julian Assange on a European arrest warrant from Sweden.

Mark Stephens tells […]

I don’t agree with Bill Cash, chairman of the committee, when he says

It is essential that it is made clear that Parliament, is the ultimate authority, and not the Supreme Court of the Court of Justice of the EU […]

Julian Assange’s arrest under a European arrest warrant, and the initial hearing before a district judge, has been the biggest news story in the UK today.

All this is happening under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003. Sweden […]

Phil Woolas has failed in his judicial review of the election court that found him guilty of illegal practices during the general election – here’s today’s judgment of the Administrative Court. So there will be a by-election, and […]

We’ve finally got the Supreme Court’s reasoning in R v Chaytor and others – in which former MPs and a peer argued that Parliamentary privilege prevents their being prosecuted for offences relating to their expenses claims.

As I’ve said […]

Bill Cash’s European Scrutiny Committee of the Commons is looking at the EU Bill, and in particular is considering very closely clause 18, William Hague’s “national sovereignty clause”, which I’ve written about before. If you’re as interested as I […]

It’s taken me a week to respond to Ken Clarke’s statement last Monday about legal aid, so unsurprisingly, quite a few people have got there before me. Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian is opposed “root and branch”.