The Attorney General, on what’s obviously been fingered as a “Jo Moore” day, has announced that he is ordering the SFO to discontinue its investigation into possible fraud in relation to BAe’s Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. […]

So, Tony Blair’s been interviewed by the police about “cash for honours”. Not under caution – and that may be very significant. A suspect must be interviewed under caution, and I know that when I used to prosecute, I would […]

Andrew Gowers’s review of intellectual property law has been published – you can download the report from the Treasury website here.

Some lawyers have already expressed disappointment – many think the report’s recommendations are not radical enough. But why […]

I think Nick Robinson was on to something the other day when he suggested the Treasury’s favourite way of spinning at the moment is to commission an “independent” review from someone Tony and Gordon know will agree with

I notice Marcel Berlins takes a diametrically opposed view to mine about family impact statements. Well, not quite diametrically: I agree with him in fact that presenting the statement ought not to be part of the role of the […]

Richard Norton-Taylor reports in the Guardian today that, according to documents made public by the National Archive today, the Law Officers were not consulted in advance of military action over Suez in 1956. And after the http://www.raybani.com/ […]

Richard Norton-Taylor reports in the Guardian today that, according to documents made public by the National Archive today, the Law Officers were not consulted in advance of military action over Suez in 1956. And after the http://www.raybani.com/ […]

Patricia Hewitt has announced that she’ll bring sections 2 and 7 of the Health Act 2006 – they’re the sections that provide for a smoking ban and an offence of smoking in smoke-free premises – into

Oh my God! I find myself coming over all lawyerly and conservative when I survey this appalling bill, which got through second reading in the Commons yesterday and which http://www.raybani.com/ would remove the right to trial by jury […]

Kate Hudson, the chair of CND, wrote in the Guardian today arguing that a decision by the British government to renew or replace Trident would be in breach of the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Apparently Rabinder Singh QC and Prof. […]