Charon QC spoke to me this weekend about Peter Hain, the Counter-Terrorism Bill, the committee stage of the EU (Amendment) Bill and Pakistan – listen to the podcast here – and don’t miss his weekly review.

I’m a bit disheartened by this story. I entirely agree that bail conditions should be properly enforced: the fact that Adam Swellings felt able to return to Warrington immediately after being bailed on condition he shouldn’t return […]

The Tory MP for Shrewsbury, Daniel Kawczynski, has tabled an interesting amendment which would require the government to renegotiate the Lisbon treaty to insert a declaration that the EU is based on its Christian faith, heritage, culture and […]

The Counter-Terrorism Bill has now been published, with explanatory notes. Clause 22 and Schedule 1 are what everyone’s been waiting for: the proposed extension of pre-charge detention beyond 28 days.

The idea under the amendments brought in […]

I heard via Charon QC, while checking my blawg feeds between teaching freedom of the person and free movement of persons, the news that Peter Hain has resigned from the Cabinet following the Electoral […]

I’ve not seen a lot of coverage of this, but the FCO has lost in its attempt to withhold disclosure of a draft of the “dodgy dossier” published before the invasion of Iraq. There’ll be a few glum faces in […]

The Law Lords are back with their first judgments of the new year – in a private international law Lugano Convention case, Phillips v Syme, and in a VAT case, Fleming and Condé Nast […]

The doughty, determined, slightly hatstand doyen of English Tory Euroscepticism, Bill Cash MP, has tabled an amendment paper making provision for a referendum. No surprise there.

The opposition front bench has tabled a series of amendments to the bill: here they are. They seem designed simply to trigger debate particularly on the Common Foreign and Security Policy, though they’ve also tabled amendments which would require […]

Minijust has announced that Jenny Rowe will be the first chief executive of the Supreme Court. Until it opens officially for business in late 2009 she’ll be working with the Law Lords to manage the transition, as well as […]