Interesting to see that Joshua Rozenberg in today’s Telegraph takes the same view as Head of Legal about the next Attorney General. It’s probably either Baroness Scotland or Lord Grabiner. Mind you, given Gordon Brown’s wooing of possibly […]

Last Thursday the ECJ gave judgment for the UK in infraction proceedings brought by the Commission. This is a major victory for the UK; and it might even turn out, one day, to be a milestone in the history […]

The House of Lords judgment in the Al-Skeini case today means the Human Rights Act will apply to what UK public authorities, such as the Army, do beyond these shores in areas of effective British control – like for […]

Sir Stephen Richards has been acquitted today of “flashing” on commuter trains. This was an extraordinary case, but also one which typifies the way witnessing or being the victim (if that’s the right word in a case like this) […]

I take my hat off to Alan Johnson: he’s managed to achieve a public profile far ahead of his Labour deputy leadership rivals this week with his brutal condemnation of Margaret Hodges remarks on housing, and now with his suggestion […]

What’s wrong with Lord Goldsmith? He’s been insisting today that Andrei Lugovoi must be extradited to the UK, even though it’s perfectly clear Russia cannot lawfully extradite him, and that the 1957 Convention does not oblige them to. So […]

John Charman’s miffed that the Court of Appeal has upheld a financial award of £48,000,000 to his ex-wife Beverley on their divorce after 27 years. There’ll be a lot written on this in the newspapers tomorrow I dare say, […]

I’ve just heard a report on BBC News 24 about Southampton Employment Tribunal’s compensatory award of £18,000 for unfair dismissal to Terri King. Ms. King was sacked by her employer, Lymington Citizen’s Advice Bureau, for breaching their client confidentiality policy. […]

Nearly Legal – an excellent blawg with particular strength in housing law – wrote interestingly the other day about Margaret Hodge’s comment about economic migrants and access to social housing.

But isn’t the position for EU citizens

So, following an interim restraining order from the Administrative Court preventing her from bringing in requirement for house sellers to produce Energy Performance Certificates pending the full hearing of RICS’s judicial review, Ruth Kelly has decided to beat a tactical […]