The French satirical magazine Charlie-Hebdo is, I read today in Le Monde, on trial in the Tribunal Correctionel in Paris (which is like an informal version of our Crown Court; or else a turbo-charged Magistrates’ Court, whichever […]

The Attorney General has been defending his role in front of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee this afternoon – I expect him to do so aggressively and firmly. And in the main, I’ll agree with him.

Some people have […]

So, The Sun has published the video from the cockpit of the plane that killed LCol Hull. It’ll be interesting to see whether the MoD will now accept that this video is accurate, or whether they’ll distance […]

Head of Legal was quoted in that fine and perspicacious periodical The Lawyer this week. Fame! Fame at last!

Oh, well: not Blackpool, not the Dome, but Manchester will be the site of the first “supercasino” under the notorious Gambling Act 2005
. In fact the correct legal term is “regional casino” – see section 7(5) – a […]

So, there was third way of sorts, but only in the sense that catholic adoption agencies have time to get used to the non-discriminatory future.

I have to say I think this whole episode has been a communications […]

Read, here, today’s fascinating and important ruling by the Scottish
Registration Appeals Court, which, on a generous reading of the law thinks it really is the Court of Session, on the compatibility of the Scottish elections with the […]

None of us have seen a draft of these regulations yet, but no doubt a draft exists somewhere on a PC belonging to some lawyer in the Department for Communities and Local Government. One thing’s for sure: the exact wording […]

Brian Haw was acquitted today of breaching conditions on his anti-war demonstration, imposed under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. You can find a report of the court hearing (written by a strong supporter of Brian Haw)

I forgot to mention that one person who’ll have found a nugget of comfort in Ruth Turner’s arrest is the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. Not in the fact of her arrest; but in the fact that she was