I agree with Benazir Bhutto that the lifting of the emergency in Pakistan is an important step forward. But what’s really needed is a step backwards, the release of those still detained such as the Supreme Court Chief Justice […]

More bad news for Jacqui Smith, now it turns out that Lord Falconer is against extending detention for terrorist suspects beyond 28 days, joining the DPP, the former Attorney General and apparently even the serving Law Officers […]

Earlier this week the ECJ gave its ruling in case C-438/05 International Transport Workers’ Federation and Finnish Seamen’s Union v Viking Line – often simply called the Viking Line case. It’s the case Lord Wedderburn was […]

The legality or otherwise of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 has been the biggest international legal issue of our time – and it continues to cause division and disagreement not only in the Dog and […]

Pakistan’s fallen out the the headlines here in Britain. Even worse, we just get the odd snippet of news – Musharraf quits as army chief; Musharraf promises elections in January; Musharraf announces the emergency will end on 15 December – […]

It seems the former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has produced (well, sort of) a 3-CD collection of songs telling the story of her country. Song of America will feature covers http://www.gooakley.com/ of famous tunes […]

A report on an interesting housing case in the Court of Appeal, from Nearly Legal. Essentially the result is that, when deciding http://www.gooakley.com/ whether you’re homeless and in need of being housed, a local authority can’t just […]

I’ve been so hugely busy, what with law lecturing, festivals of burlesque cinema, podcasting with Charon and all that, that I’ve neglected to post a report of last Thursday night’s politico-legal boozefest when Head of Legal managed somehow […]

The Adminstrative Court has today dismissed a judicial review brought by the fundamentalist organisation Christian Voice. Its director Stephen Green had challenged the decision of the District Judge in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court not to issue summonses […]

I’ve left it far, far too long before commenting on the important “ship-source” pollution case in which the European Court of Justice gave its ruling a few weeks ago. Remiss of me. But even if the delay means I’ve […]