The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom opens officially today – and with it, a new chapter in this country’s legal history. The Guardian has a leader about it today, and the opening is likely to be covered widely […]

Gordon Brown’s conference speech yesterday gripped the nation, obviously – if you want to know what I thought of it politically, have a look at my other blog. A couple of constitutional and legal points emerged from it too, […]

The latest development – the arrest of Baroness Scotland’s former housekeeper and her husband – means this story continues to roll. And if what Guido is reporting turns out to be true, surely her career must be over. […]

I doubt they have much future, now Alan Johnson has abandoned a second one since the Lords ruling in AF. I’m a bit surprised by the government’s approach – I’d expected them to fight, Ypres-style, over every inch […]

Stephen Hesford’s resignation is very unhelpful from Baroness Scotland’s point of view, and may be very dangerous, too: Gordon Brown’s entire government is a fragile rock since the failed coup earlier this summer, and he must fear that the […]

Or interim guidelines, really. Here they are. They seem very sensible to me, unsurprisingly, and make it admirably clear that they do not purport to “clarify the law”. The CPS is consulting on them until 16 December – read […]

If you read magazines aimed largely at commercial lawyers, you’ll be familiar with the sort of article in which a solicitor argues against some proposed or actual piece of regulation, saying business would be better off without it. Sometimes they […]

Extraordinary that, while I was away, the Attorney General Baroness Scotland should have come under such pressure. Now, she’s been fined for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper. Here’s her apology and defence of her “technical” error. […]

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 […]

You’ve not heard much from me recently – I was taking advantage of the silly season to catch up with other things. And my blog break is going to continue for one more week, because I’m going to take a […]