An interesting post at EU Law Blog about last week’s ECJ judgment in this case, about survivors’ pension and sexuality discrimination. It’s amazing, I always think, how fundamental EC discrimination law – human rights law, you might call […]

I sincerely hope so. Of course he doesn’t accept the unlawful killing verdict. He’ll believe there was a Nazi establishment murder plot until he meets the all-knowing conspiracy theorist in the sky, and no kind of inquiry could ever […]

The drawn-out farce of the Zimbabwean “elections” has now taken a mad legal turn, with the MDC going to law to force the election commission to release the results, but being prevented from entering the court by Mugabe’s police. […]

Here it is. Moral? Don’t wait 38 years to recover from the drugs. And anyway, isn’t Bach the real originator of this choon?

I thought you’d like to know what Dominic Sandbrook says about it in

Until now I’ve missed this judicial review judgment from March, about byelaws relating to a women’s peace camp at Aldermaston. The challenge to the byelaws succeeded in part, because they would have criminalised putting a jumper down on a […]

It’s two lawyers down, one to go after Shazia got herself fired from The Apprentice last night. Quite wrongly, to be fair: the awful Jenny or the wet Lucinda shoulda got the boot. Then again, shouldn’t these […]

The government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill got through second reading unopposed yesterday: the real action will come in votes on specific amendments at a later stage. You can find the Bill and explanatory notes to it, here, and here’s the […]

The European Commission has decided to investigate the UK’s state aid to Northern Rock. No surprise, this: such a massive rescue of a bank was bound to be looked into fully. And it seems to me inconceivable that the […]

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has decided to hear an application by a prosecutor to have Prime Minister Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party ruled unconstitutional on the basis that its threatens Turkey’s secular principles.

We’ve been here before: in […]

The reason the Pakistani situation caught my interest, and why I thought it was right to cover it to some extent in this blawg, was not just the central importance in that crisis of the Supreme Court, but also the […]