I’m interested in the fact that Poole Borough Council put the Paton family under surveillance because they thought they might have fraudulently applied for a school place for their daughter. I’m also interested in Liberty’s response.

I feel […]

I can’t link to the judgment yet; it’s not available. But the news is that Collins J has ruled that British troops in battle may enjoy the article 2 right to life, and that sending them into combat with […]

Gosh, what a legal week this has been! In all the flurry, I’ve not yet posted the judgment in which Eady J refused Max Mosley an injunction against the News of the World. Paragraph 4 of the […]

Corner House and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade have succeeded in their judicial review of the SFO’s decision to discontinue its investigation into possible bribery by BAe Systems related to the Al Yamamah arms contracts with Saudi Arabia. You’ll […]

As was widely reported yesterday, Abu Qatada succeeded in his appeal against deportation yesterday. Here’s the judgment (he’s also known as Omar Othman). The Court of Appeal has reversed the ruling of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission as […]

It’s the great fishnets debate, which has spread beyond the web pages of Legal Week to the Daily Mail and has come to the attention of the American Bar Association. Well, it’s nice […]

The remaining lawyer was, strangely enough, not fired from The Apprentice last night; Sara led her team slightly dicily to Bollywood Night victory, and lives to fight another day. You don’t think she could win it, do […]

A committee of nine Law Lords has unanimously rejected this claim that the article 2 Convention right to life of soldiers killed in Iraq requires the government to hold an inquiry into how the UK came to invade, how […]

Apparently Fayed is not planning further legal action in his “quest for truth” about Diana. There’s a turn-up. I find it especially moving that he’s giving up for the sake of the princes.

As has been widely reported today, the government has been defeated in judicial review challenge to the changes it made in 2006 to its highly-skilled migrant programme. Here’s the judgment.

It’s a classic legitimate expectation case, about […]