Here’s the full text of Lord Phillips’s lecture last night.

Sorry you’ve heard so little of me recently: it’s been a busy week, what with lecturing, second marking, visiting philosophy-of-lawyers from Cambridge and other personal stuff. I’ll say a thing or two later today, though.

This is the headline on the local newspaper hoardings near my home today. Harlesden man sounds like something archaeological, doesn’t he? But he’s more Willesden junction than missing link in fact. Anyway, enough of this nonsense: this is the […]

Regular readers will know I quite often disagree with with what David Pannick writes in the Times; I also find myself often agreeing with David Aaronovitch who writes in the same paper. Well, this week my reactions are

Now I’m sniffling and snuffling my way to coherence, there seems an awful lawt to blawg about. So bear with me in the next few days, even if I seem unbearable.

It was due to a very busy period followed by a bloody, bloody cold keeping me off blogging for a while.

The good news is that normal blawging service will resume quite soon now.

I like having unmoderated comments on the blog – and I’ve no problem with people remaining anonymous. But I’ve just had to delete a comment which made a very serious allegation against a named person.

Obviously I can’t allow […]

I’ve blogged often enough before about the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, its requirements in relation to political donations and the offences that can be committed under it. And as I explained yesterday in Consilio’s audio […]

The other important hearing that re-started this week is the trial of Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, in front of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, for a number of crimes against humanity committed during the civil war in […]

Yesterday the US Supreme Court heard argument in this case, in which it is argued that lethal injection using a combination of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride is “cruel and unusual punishment”, contrary to the 8th Amendment to […]