So everyone now knows Lord Goldsmith had an affair with Kim Hollis QC – Iain Dale covered this yesterday and of course the Sunday papers have covered it.

This was pretty well known among lawyers, or at […]

The Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer has said the government is considering legislating to permit the police to question suspects after they are charged. This is pretty obviously a trailer for proposals that the Government is likely to put before […]

Journal d’un Avocat sees a ruling of the Cour de Cassation as a rap on the knuckles for the French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy – who I think you know by now, is standing for President of

Today Le Monde reports that the Cour d’Appel in Amiens in northern France has ruled that a child can be adopted by the lesbian civil partner of his birth mother. The two women have been in a

Allard Knook at ECJ Blog has picked up on Advocate General Ruiz-Colomer’s opinion in the Commission v Germany case, C-112/05. No English language version of the opinion is available yet, but ECJ Blog provides a link to the original […]

Back in the 1980s I read a brilliant article by Conor Cruise O’Brien, arguing that the then much-ridiculed words “I’m not a racist, but…” or “I hate apartheid, but…” actually indicated that an opinion consisting of important, mainstream good sense […]

It seems the French MEP, writer and member of the Academie Française, Maurice Druon, is heading a campaign to have French recognised as the only authentic language of European law. The manifesto of his campaign is

The European Commission has announced that it’s submitting to the EP and Council a proposal for a Directive on environmental crime. This is its reaction to the European Court of Justice’s ruling in the

The tribunal will consider its verdict on the 15 March, according to Journal d’un Avocat. I’m glad to see that the avocat général has called for an acquittal.

The Guardian is also reporting the Charlie Hebdo trial, I note.