I’m interested that Lord Goldsmith, writing in yesterday’s Independent, essentially agrees with me on the Binyam Mohamed case:

That the High Court finally agreed – with some apparent regret – with the Foreign Secretary in believing […]

It’s been a tremendous week for protesting women, not just because Kay Tabernacle and the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp beat John Hutton, but also because Women on Waves have beaten Portugal in Strasbourg. It was a breach […]

Yesterday the Court of Appeal gave judgment in this case about the right to freedom of expression – specifically to protest at the Aldermaston atomic weapons establishment. The protest in question is the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp; and the […]

Here it is. I think it’s a good judgment, and I’m glad I was cautious last night about joining the chorus of outrage: it does not seem obvious to me that justice requires the 25-line summary of evidence the […]

It’s difficult, without seeing the judges’ ruling, to be completely sure that the information Thomas LJ and Lloyd-Jones J would like to publish relating to the treatment of Binyam Mohamed must be published by a British court: originally […]

I must admit to having some sympathy for the workers at Lindsey oil refinery who protested against the shipping in of Italian workers to carry out work there; and with those Labour MPs like Jon Cruddas who have […]

I’m way behind Charon and John Bolch with this story, but must throw in my tuppenceworth. It seems that Lord Hope and his pals on the well-upholstered putative Supreme Court bench are unhappy about the address of […]

It was a jolly good week in court last week for Basildon Council. First, they won against the Equality and Human Rights Commission in this case about travellers in the Court of Appeal; then they followed it up with […]

Oh no! She’s going! Not quite yet, but the French justice minister Rachida Dati will leave Nicolas Sarkozy’s government in a matter of weeks in order to run in the European elections. She’s being reshuffled out, basically. Shame. She […]

The House of Lords gave judgment yesterday in this human rights judicial review about provisional listing under Part VII of the Care Standards Act 2000, which sets up a scheme for “listing” people thought unsuitable to work with […]