This case involved Italy, not Britain – but nonetheless today’s judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, about prisoner’s rights to vote, represents a small but significant victory for the British government. The Court […]

Without Prejudice will be back soon, I’m delighted to say, in its usual panel format. But in the meantime today Charon QC and I recorded a special hour-long discussion covering a number of subjects:

• the recent legal “clockup” about Abu […]

If you’re in the business of predicting court judgments, you can sometimes end up looking a mug. My last prediction wasn’t the best. Oh, well. At least the judges agreed with me on the time limit.

Anyway, while the […]

A panel of five judges meets at the European Court of Human Rights today to decide whether or not to grant Abu Qatada’s request that his case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court.

You’ll remember that following the […]

Yesterday’s big news was the relevation at the Leveson Inquiry of the e-mails from Frédéric Michel to his NewsCorp colleagues about his contact with Jeremy Hunt, or at least with Jeremy Hunt’s special adviser, while Hunt was preparing to […]

On BBC Radio 4’s Today this morning the Prime Minister was asked about the mix up over Abu Qatada’s arrest, appeal and time limits.

You can listen to the exchange here.

The key extracts from the interview seem to me as […]

Having listened to Theresa May’s statement today, and followed reporting about the issue of the time-limit, I thought it might help if I set out my reaction to some of the things people have been saying about it, on […]

The BBC reported yesterday that there’s “doubt” about the deportation of Abu Qatada, following his arrest on Tuesday and now his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights – which the Home Secretary Theresa May says is out […]

The United States Supreme Court is currently hearing Department of Health and Human Services v Florida, in which President Obama’s Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is appealing the decision of a Federal Court of Appeals that the Patient Protection and […]

On Thursday night the BBC screened Rights Gone Wrong? presented by Andrew Neil and produced by Matthew Laza. I’m glad my mum reminded me to see it.

The human rights debate in this country seems to have got unfortunately bogged […]