A hot week for legal news from France. First, if you remember the controversy over the annulment of the marriage of a couple from Lille – on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin – […]

Lord Goldsmith was on Radio 4 last night defending his 2003 legal advice on the invasion of Iraq after Lord Bingham’s criticism last night; listen to Lord Goldsmith here.

So, Lord Bingham has given his legal view of the Iraq war: that the invasion was a serious breach of international law.

Is there anyone who hasn’t made up their mind about this already? I doubt it. Of […]

I’m catching up here on a House of Lords judgment I missed a few weeks ago in October. Bancoult is the culmination of a legal saga in which Chagossians – the people cleared off the British Indian […]

John Bolch (getting his second reference in quick succession) has an interesting post on whether Sir Mark Potter should have given a reference on headed paper for Bruce Hyman, the barrister convicted of perverting the course of justice […]

I completely agree (not for the first time) with John Bolch at Family Lore about the Baby P case. Of course anything councils can do to improve child protection systems must be done – it must be done regardless […]

Thanks to David Mery for pointing me to this video of Ms. Abbott’s award-winning speech. What a brilliant medium the web is, eh?

While we’re on 42 days, let’s think back to when the Commons debated the issue back in June. At the time I thought Diane Abbott’s speech stood out; and I’m not alone, because it won her the Spectator’s Parliamentary […]

On Wednesday in the Court of Appeal, Mohamed Raissi successfully resisted the police’s appeal against his successful action for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment, having been arrested shortly after 9/11 together with his brother, Lotfi, and his sister […]

There’s been quite a lot of blawg talk about Paul Dacre’s speech, apart from here. I’m especially interested in Simon Myerson’s good advice to would-be barristers about avoiding judge-bashing, as disrespectful of the rule of law and ultimately […]