I’m the subject of this week’s Normblog profile, where if you have nothing better to do you can find out some stuff about me that’s not law.

If you have Spotify, you can hear that Fahrenheit 451 score […]

Perhaps I’m missing an arcane aspect of Parliamentary procedure, or something, and “tomorrow” means “some time before long”. I did think it was a bit odd that the second reading of the EU Bill seemed to be scheduled for […]

William Hague introduced his European Union Bill in the Commons today, and it will have its second reading as early as tomorrow – a debate that will no doubt be a treat. Much of the bill makes provision to […]

You may know from the news that the Administrative Court has ruled unlawful Eric Pickles’s revocation of regional strategies in England. He’ll have to wait until his Localism Bill comes into force in order to abolish them.

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It was always obvious that Parliamentary privilege doesn’t prevent the trial of MPs accused of expenses fraud – and unsurprisingly, the Supreme Court has ruled that it doesn’t. There’s no written judgment yet, but I’ll link to it when […]

All the media has been reporting the case Phil Woolas lost in the High Court yesterday, sitting as an Election Court. So you probably know his election in Oldham East and Saddleworth has to be run again, and that, […]

I’m agnostic about whether prisoners should be allowed to vote – I can see the rehabilitation argument, up to a point, but I understand the view that disfranchisement (as the legislation puts it) is part of punishment, too. So […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier about the issue of prisoners’ voting, following Joshua Rozenberg’s recent Guardian Law piece on the subject and the guest post on his blog by John Hirst. We give a bit of […]

The Supreme Court has given judgment today in this case about whether Scottish criminal suspects must have the right to a lawyer when being questioned in the first hours after they’re arrested and detained, a right which legislation currently […]

Thanks to the Open Rights Group for letting me know that TalkTalk have published the joint statement of facts and grounds they filed this summer in the judicial review challenge they’re mounting, together with BT, against the Digital […]