I can’t go to today’s protest as it turns out, but since I’ve just been reading Popper (see how intellectual this blog is?) I thought I’d share with you some words of his about the choice between democracy and tyranny […]

In my last post, I missed out a link to Pakistan United – it’s a forum for organising action in support of the protests in Pakistan, and you can register there and Cheap Jerseys find out […]

Pakistan’s sacked (twice sacked by Musharraf, if I remember right) Chief Justice Chaudhry has called, according to the BBC, for lawyers and the wider public in Pakistan to rise up to force the restoration of the constitution.

It’s […]

It’s brilliant to see that lawyers are leading the protests against what Dawn newspaper has called Musharraf’s “second coup” in Pakistan. The confrontation began (as this BBC story explains) earlier this year when Musharraf […]

In the E case their Lordships had no difficulty in agreeing that a curfew of 12 hours a day, combined with noticeably less restrictive conditions than in the JJ case (E lives with his wife […]

My lengthy post on the JJ case explained how the Home Secretary has now been limited to imposing curfews of 16 hours (or less) under her control order regime; I thought I’d better post again though, on the […]

On Wednesday the Lords gave their judgment in the appeals of JJ and others, MB and AF, and E, against the making of control orders against them under the Prevention […]

I broadly welcome the Commons European Scrutiny Committee’s report about the inter-governmental conference on the Reform Treaty.

The most important point they make is that the Reform Treaty is the “substantial equivalent” of the Constitution. The committee is […]

Jack Straw’s speech at Bournemouth the other week contained a surprise: the Labour government having rejected amendment to the law of self-defence a couple of years back, now the new Lord Chancellor says

the […]

EU Law Blog has posted the latest draft of the Reform Treaty, as it’s emerged from the group of http://www.nflauthenticjersey.com/ Council, Commission and Member States’ governments’ legal experts that have been working on it in Brussels since […]