The Reform Treaty, or Treaty of Lisbon as perhaps I should get used to calling it, is big news again, as the European Union (Amendment) Bill to give effect to it has its second reading today. Here are the […]

At the weekend I missed a Comment is Free piece by Leo Hickman, giving an insight into the strage but fun world of European food law on protected designations of origin: you know, parmesan cheese,

In this week’s Consilio audio review of the week’s legal news, I’m talking about the Garry Newlove case. Charon QC’s other guests are Tim Kevan, on why lawyers should surf, Peter Groves on parody and intellectual property, and Simon […]

This isn’t a case in the US Supreme Court, I’m sorry to say, but a piece at Huffington Post in which the famous lawyer lays into the evangelical candidate Mike (how am I not myself?) Huckabee’s […]

The Court of Appeal gave judgment yesterday in an interesting disability discrimination case about mental illness.

Elizabeth McDougall applied for a job at the college in 2005, and got it – subject to medical checks. But when those […]

An excellent and helpful post on EU Law Blog earlier this week set out the way the Reform Treaty categorises the competences of the EU under three broad headings: those things only the EU will have power to do […]

I’ve blogged often enough before about the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, its requirements in relation to political donations and the offences that can be committed under it. And as I explained yesterday in Consilio’s audio […]

I was invited to take part today in Consilio’s audio review of the week, a new venture in which Charon QC takes half an hour or so to review some of the week’s […]

The other important hearing that re-started this week is the trial of Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, in front of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, for a number of crimes against humanity committed during the civil war in […]

Yesterday the US Supreme Court heard argument in this case, in which it is argued that lethal injection using a combination of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride is “cruel and unusual punishment”, contrary to the 8th Amendment to […]