Without Prejudice will be back soon, I'm delighted to say, in its usual panel format. But in the meantime today Charon QC and I recorded a special hour-long discussion covering a number of subjects: the recent legal "clockup" about Abu [...]
In Without Prejudice this week Charon QC chairs a free speech special. Nick Cohen, writer, journalist and author of You Can't Read This Book joins barrister, policymaker and former Conservative candidate Joanne Cash, David Allen Green and me to talk [...]
The government has today published a note (hat tip to Paul Waugh) setting out a summary of the legal basis of the government's deployment in Libya. Actually it does no more than explain that UN Resolution 1973 authorises member states [...]
At the end of my interview the other day with Charon QC, I spoke briefly about the appointments of the Law Officers - the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve and the Solicitor General, Edward Garnier - and suggested Nick Clegg had [...]
As I write, David Cameron is the new Prime Minister forming a government that probably will be a coalition - but we're not yet sure, quite. I type while watching the BBC's Newsnight and waiting to hear confirmation that Liberal [...]
I agree with the point David Cameron makes about hung Parliaments and coalition politics: the problem with them, and the proportional representation that would all but require them, is that they result in politicians, not the voters, deciding who governs. [...]
I'm grateful to Charon for drawing my attention to Richard Gordon QC's article in the Times last week arguing that it's "time" for a written constitution. I'm not as impressed as he was, though. I'm thoroughly and firmly against a [...]
The DCMS minister Sion Simon has been speaking for the government in the Commons this afternoon, and is in an embarrassing situation: it appears that government lawyers have advised that the Video Recordings Act 1984 should have been notified to [...]
Afua Hirsch wrote in yesterday's Guardian that the role of Attorney General is unfit for purpose and unsustainable: In many ways the problem is as simple as this: the job description just does not work. The attorney general is tasked [...]
The Guardian today carries an interview with the DPP, Keir Starmer - well worth reading of course, though it's certainly not his first media interview because Clive Coleman spoke to him on the BBC's Law in Action in the spring. [...]