I’m speaking on a course this morning, so don’t have time to properly comment on yesterday’s judgment by Blake J. in favour of retired Gurkha servicemen wanting to settle in the UK. I thought you’d want to see […]

It’s becoming clearer every day that what we’re living through is the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s: Alistair Darling was right in his Isle of Lewis interview with the Guardian a month ago. Of course everyone’s looking to […]

David Pannick’s Times column today is about the most famous French advocate of the age, Jacques Vergès, a repellent yet compelling figure whose political extremism and cynicism make radical British lawyers look like naive lackeys of the establishment.

In his speech at the Labour conference yesterday, Gordon Brown proposed new legislation to enshrine his government’s commitment to abolish child poverty by 2020 (or as the article puts it, he vowed to bring in

I know it’s scarcely credible, but I was wrong in my guess that the government would legislate to avoid competition procedures entirely in the LLoyds TSB-HBOS merger: an anonymous commenter here, and Angelo Basu at ConservativeHome’s CentreRight […]

Last night it was reported that the FSA would act to clamp down on “short selling“; the objective obviously being to deter speculative attacks on banks such as those on HBOS that went on for some time before […]

I’ve been wondering how, legally, the government will exempt the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger from competition law; some of the reports about this are understandably fairly vague.

So long as both Lloyds TSB and HBOS receive over two thirds […]

The National Executive Committee has decided not to issue nomination form for the leadership of the Labour Party: the BBC has the story, and Guido Fawkes gives us the text of the press release. And very interesting it […]

It seems that they’re inching in Islamabad towards restoration of the judges deposed by General Musharraf, and to the constitutional position before the emergency he declared as a means of hanging on to power. The Guardian says three supreme […]

I mostly avoid responding to memes (boring of me, I know) but this one’s quite interesting, and it is still spiritually if not literally August, so I’m going to rise to the challenge of citing five non-law blogs I […]