I’m sorry to say the new Pakistani government has been dragging its feet about restoring the judges deposed by General Musharraf last November – but I’m glad to say the lawyers’ movement is keeping up the pressure with a big […]

I’ve not posted yet on this important case from the US Supreme Court: I’m sorry, there’s just been too much fun happening in the British Isles this week. But I mustn’t keep you from the judgment itself; here’s a […]

It is No, then. I’m pleased, I must say. It’s not that I’m a Eurospectic: I’m not. Actually I think most of the content of the Treaty is perfectly reasonable. Why I would have voted no, and why I’m […]

If this is right, it’s astonishing news, and Europe will be pitched into crisis again. I can understand how Irish voters came to say No: as Michael Portillo said on telly last night, simply the knowledge that the French, […]

Now that Dominic Grieve has been promoted to David Davis’s old job, legal nerds like me wonder who’s going to get his role as shadow Attorney General. The simplest, quickest thing might be to give it to Edward Garnier, […]

I spoke to Charon QC earlier about the 42 days, the government’s grubby deals, prospects for the Counter-Terrorism Bill in the Lords, and a bit about the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, too. You can hear the podcast […]

The shadow Home Secretary David Davis has astonishingly announced he will resign his seat in East Yorkshire and force a by-election on the single issue of liberty: he sees it as a personal campaign to stop the government’s erosion of […]

Some people have suggested that when the House of Lords becomes our Supreme Court in just over a year, it should abandon the practice of judges giving individual judgments, sometimes disagreeing with each other, which means lawyers have to work […]

I’m enjoying watching Lord Goldsmith, who’s Andrew Neil’s guest on the Daily Politics today. He’s a serious chap more suited to Newsnight or Today than to joshing about the way Andrew Neil does – but he’s doing his best.

But only by a scrape. Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith won their commons vote on the reserve power to extend terror suspects’ detention up to 42 days. They got the votes of a few vital Labour backbenchers and of the […]