It was always obvious (wasn’t it?) that the government’s insistence on trying to extend detention of terrorist suspects beyond 28 days was political madness. Even if they do manage to get it through Parliament, the public won’t thank them, or […]

I’ve landed, I’m now with computer, and my sleep patterns are nearly normal, but for my first post-holiday post I’m going to stick with the States. If you’ve ever been there and fumbled in your wallet for a dollar, only […]

and nearly over the jet-lag. But unfortunately my return has coincided with the total and apparently very final expiration of my computer. Bear with me: normal service will resume once I’ve decided whether I can afford the MacAir or not.

Before I leave the Big Apple, a leader in today’s New York Times drew my attention to this US Supreme Court case in which a federal law on child pornography has been upheld as constitutional.

The Times […]

Before I end my blog holiday and come back from New York, I thought you might just be slightly interested in this US Supreme Court case showing that non-discriminatory inter-state commerce is protected in a way analogous to (thought […]

I’m blogging lite, as you know, but must while in the U.S. of A. mention the decision of the California Supreme Court, which has ruled that gay people have a constitutional right to marry their same-sex partners, just as […]

I did say there might be some blawging lite from the US, where I’m currently staying with my cousin Cara in Las Vegas (that’s right!), so here is an all-American caffeine-and sugar-free post, with the judgment (given a few weeks […]

I’ve had a very, very nice blawg break, cycling among the mountains of Austria, swimming, doing the tango, drinking Weißbier and playing German word games, among other things. Not really thinking about law, and not blogging.

And I mean to have one now – I’m off to Austria for a week, then visiting friends and resting for a little while after that so, in a turn of phrase that sounds familiar from drafting classes some years […]

Here’s the vast, 450-paragraph judgment of Andrew Smith J in OFT v Abbey and others, a judgment that will depress those poor banks even more, though it will cheer up money saving experts, impoverished law students, […]