This case is about a civil action against the police, who shot dead an unarmed man when raiding his home to arrest him. The policeman who fired the shot was acquitted of murder and manslaughter on the judge’s direction; […]

PJH law have spotted an interesting employment appeal case in which an employer has essentially succeeded in having a claim struck out on human rights grounds: to continue would breach its right to a fair hearing under the article […]

You have to hand it to Charon QC. He already writes what I think must be Britain’s most widely read law blog, and has taken a lead in establishing podcasts as a regular part of his offering. Now he’s […]

An interesting take on the Corner House judgment from Joshua Rozenberg in the Telegraph: he thinks the government got into difficulties because the case happened to be dealt with by the SFO, when it […]

I can now link to Collins J’s judgment in the case that received lots of media coverage the other day, on the right to life and troops in Iraq – although it looks as though some further observations from […]

I completely agree with David Pannick’s view in the Times today: the Fayed farce shows us coroners need the discretion to decline to carry out an inquest in specific circumstances – where a death has already been […]

A regular reader has let me know she’s “shocked” by my reactionary turn this last week. I suspect she may be easily shocked but I’ll risk sending her over the edge by linking to last week’s

I’m glad Lord Goldsmith spoke up about this in an interview on Sky News yesterday. I’m not so much interested in his defence of the decision to drop the investigation, but in the point of principle he raises (in […]

You may be as surprised as I am that Judge Uchena has ruled against the MDC in its attempt to force the Election Commission to release the results of the recent “election”.

Again the MDC is planning to go to court to challenge the decision of the Zimbabwe Election Commission – which clearly acts on the instructions of Mugabe and Zanu-PF – to order a recount in some constituencies. Nothing could […]