I’m glad the DPP has recommended that Lugovoi be charged with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. I’ve no idea whether he’s guilty or innocent, of course. But the CPS obviously thinks there’s enough evidence to prosecute, and it’s good […]

Various newspapers have been reporting that the next Attorney General may be Lord Grabiner, a well-known commercial silk, and Labour peer since 1999. For some time I had suspected Baroness Scotland was the obvious

I very much agree with Iain Dale about the media coverage of the “suspect” Robert Murat and indeed of the Russian man who’s now in the spotlight. I really wish the BBC and other media would think again before […]

Apparently the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a judicial review of the government’s plans to change the way we buy and sell houses in England and Wales with the introduction of Home Information Packs this summer. […]

RemedyUK was in the Administrative Court at the RCJ today, at the hearing of its judicial review challenge to the government’s MTAS system for appointing junior doctors. Tom De La Mare of Blackstone Chambers is for them, instructed by Leigh […]

It seems one thing Segolene Royal has in common with her partner Francois Hollande is an intention to sue over claims http://www.raybani.com/ made in a book about her, La Femme Fatale, written by two journalists with Le […]

It’s the first day of the existence of the new Ministry of Justice. I’ve nothing against this, really; it seems to me reasonable enough to organise government in this way. But there are a couple of grumpy things I […]

You may be as pleased and relieved as I am to know that the editor of Charlie Hebdo was finally acquitted by the Paris Tribunal Correctionnel of the criminal charges brought against him by Islamic Organisations.

Unfortunately I […]

What Nick Robinson says in his blog today is interesting:

I see absolutely no evidence that the attorney did anything other than what all previous occupants of his post would have done, ie to respond to […]

Extraordinary news, this: the Attorney has injuncted the BBC from showing a report about cash-for-honours.

Presumably it’s to prevent what he thinks would be contempt of court – a publication that would seriously risk substantial prejudice (I’m away […]