This afternoon in the House of Commons the Prime Minister told MPs that Reyaad Khan, the "Islamic State" fighter from Cardiff, was killed in Syria in a targeted RAF drone strike. His death was reported some days ago but it [...]
View image | gettyimages.com One of the absurdities of this year’s "silly season" has been another of Britain’s periodic bouts of Chilcot-bashing. When there’s a period of slow news, it seems, journalists remember that Sir John Chilcot was tasked six [...]
The Conservative plan for a "British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" is finally being made clear today. Here is the full Tory policy document, with my detailed comments. The tone of the proposals is harsh and uncompromising, and politically calculated to be. Lawyers will be [...]
Fiona Maye is sixty – and a judge in the Family Division of the High Court. Her husband’s about to leave her for a younger woman, she fears, as a case comes before her that will test both her values, [...]
Last week at LSE, Professor Conor Gearty chaired an event on "the state of freedom in Britain" at which Professor Nicola Lacey and Liberty's director Shami Chakrabarti (who's a bit of a guest star on this blog at the moment) [...]
I realise this is a legal blog. But I do write reviews occasionally, like this one of a film, and this one of a play, both on specifically legal themes, admittedly. I hope there'll be more like them before long. While [...]
In some ways this week, with the recall of Parliament and the UK's tabling a UN resolution, seems like a fast replay of the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Many people's attitudes to what's happening are informed [...]
Earlier I posted Clive Stafford Smith's response to my piece yesterday about what I called "Reprieve's dodgy press release". I said I'd set out my own comments on his response in a separate post - and here they are. First, Clive [...]
Following my post yesterday which was critical of Reprieve's press release about the recent Rahmatullah case in the Supreme Court, Reprieve's Director Clive Stafford Smith has contacted me to respond. I'll set out my own comments on his response in a [...]
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court gave judgment in this case in which Yunus Rahmatullah, who's being held by American forces in Afghanistan, applied for habeas corpus against the British government. Rosalind English wrote a helpful summary of the judgment at the [...]
